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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Nation & World
Plugged in
Leading government technology officers explored how technology can drive democracy forward during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School Forum.
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Campus & Community
Poll finds widespread pessimism among the young
The poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics found that six out of 10 young adults surveyed worry they may not meet their current bills and obligations.
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Nation & World
‘Jazz’ diplomacy
Richard Holbrooke, a diplomat for nearly 50 years, imparts to a Harvard audience his insights into current international conflicts, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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Campus & Community
Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out
Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since fallen to levels lower…
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Nation & World
Faith and the marketplace
A panel of religious scholars examined the role of organized religion in helping to shape the national debate on economic reform and the country’s moral direction.
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Campus & Community
HKS’s Kokkalis program to offer executive training in Greece
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Kokkalis Program on Southeast and East-Central Europe will host a four-day HKS executive training program May 31-June 3 titled “Leading, Innovating and Negotiating: Critical Strategies for Public Sector Executives.”
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Campus & Community
An education that works on two levels
Harvard Kennedy School student Nizar Farsakh talks about what makes the School work, citing its two-pronged approach involving faculty with real-world experience and students with varied backgrounds, all with a willingness to entertain other points of view.
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Campus & Community
Gift launches fellowship fund
The Harvard Kennedy School of Government has received a $5 million gift from Glenn Dubin, co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management. This gift will be used to launch a graduate fellowship fund to support and develop new programs for emerging leaders from the United States and around the world.
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Nation & World
Advising the president
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett offered a personal look at President Barack Obama, as well as a take on some of the troubles in Washington, during a talk at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.
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Nation & World
Slavery in 2010
Harvard Kennedy School program looks at ways to prosecute and prevent modern-day slavery, and to protect the millions now in bondage.
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Nation & World
Knitting Europe together
Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.
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Arts & Culture
Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams
With vivid writing on her stories and colorful past, Williams offers an autobiography to make lazy folks blush. Professor emeritus at the Kennedy School, this lifelong lady of politics has done it all, and it’s all here.
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Nation & World
A bridge to somewhere
Bady Balde, a learned émigré from Guinea, uses Harvard’s Bridge Program to go from Dining Services worker to bank teller to Harvard Kennedy School graduate student.
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Campus & Community
Contrasts between past and present
In a series of interviews, 15 veterans discussed the startling contrasts between past and present.
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Campus & Community
Over there, over here
On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.
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Science & Tech
Global warnings
Harvard Kennedy School panelists say that the slippage in mainstream media outlets means more voices argue about environmental issues, prompting the public to have difficulty sorting out the cacophony and even to doubt global warming.
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Nation & World
Listen to the people
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the public has turned on both political parties in the last three years, in each case because it thought it was being ignored. When politicians do that, he said, they will suffer the consequences.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces spring resident fellows
Six individuals have been selected for resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP).
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Last year, pirates off the coast of Somalia attacked 217 ships, hijacked 47, and snatched $60 million in ransom.
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Campus & Community
M-RCBG fellows and scholars welcomed for 2010 spring semester
A former Brazilian electricity regulator and a management professor from the Indian Institute of Technology are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this spring at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2010
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, recently announced four spring fellows for 2010.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center announces Goldsmith winners and finalists
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced two winners of the Goldsmith Books Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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Campus & Community
Learning beyond the gates
Marcel Moran ’11, a biology concentrator, plans on a career in medicine. But last semester he stepped aside from problem sets and laboratory experiments to venture into a course called “Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City.”
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Nation & World
Attracting stronger federal workforce
Q&A with David T. Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School: Acting in time on the government workforce.
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Nation & World
Dream works
Two former mayors from other nations recount how they took over troubled cities and installed controversial but effective measures to solve urban problems and re-engage the public.
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Campus & Community
HKS’s Belfer Center creates Ernest May Fellowship
The Belfer Center has announced the Ernest May Fellowship, a new initiative to help build the next generation of men and women who will bring professional history to bear on strategic studies and major issues of international affairs.
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Nation & World
Judging the campaign finance ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.
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Nation & World
Harvard mobilizes relief fund
Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.
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Nation & World
Timely course
Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight? What can be done to alter that pattern? Those questions served as impetus for a new intensive January session course, “Acting in Time,” at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Nation & World
A new system for measuring poverty
HKS researchers present new calculus for comparing poverty levels and changes over time, and between countries. The authors say the U.S. “war on poverty” produced significant gains in the 1990s compared with the ’80s.
