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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Nation & World
‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts
In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.
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Nation & World
Recalling the Tulsa race massacre, and calling for reparations
Rights activists and academics remember the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and focus on what remains to be done.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in leadership
Monica Pesswani, M.C./M.P.A. ’21, came to Harvard seeking a global perspective as she worked to create educational equality in India.
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Nation & World
Analysts in economics, public policy give Biden infrastructure plan high marks
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.
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Campus & Community
Cross-university fundraiser started to help India fight COVID-19
Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who helped quickly mobilize a cross-university fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 to help India battle COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
10 join American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.
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Nation & World
The GOP house divided
Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.
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Nation & World
Ensuring the Floyd trial becomes a turning point
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.
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Arts & Culture
A 400-year community chronicle of African America
Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.
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Nation & World
Clinton reflects on foreign policy triumphs and challenges
Former President Bill Clinton gave the inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy in honor of the late U.S. ambassador, looking back on his international actions that still reverberate in U.S. foreign relations today.
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Nation & World
From Russia, without love
Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations under the new Biden administration.
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Nation & World
Hidden figures
Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.
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Campus & Community
The new breakfast club
What started 13 years ago as a welcome gesture from a towering figure at the Law School to a new basketball coach has become a monthly balm, an oasis of multigenerational community and education.
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Nation & World
Biden may regret releasing report on Khashoggi murder
President Biden’s release of 2018 U.S. intelligence report on murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sets the stage for a significant shift in U.S.-Saudi relations from Trump era.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School mourns the passing of Gustave ‘Gus’ Hauser
Longtime University benefactor Gustave M. Hauser cared deeply about developing ethical leaders. He died Feb. 14.
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Campus & Community
Harvard economist Robert Glauber dies at 81
A Harvard professor for more than five decades, Robert Glauber died at 81. , Among his many accomplishments, Glauber helped analyze the 1987 stock market crash and led negotiations to resolve the savings and loan crisis.
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Nation & World
Solving racial disparities in policing
Experts say approach must be comprehensive as roots are embedded in culture
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Nation & World
An overhaul for justice
Ana Billingsley, assistant director with the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines inequities in the criminal justice system.
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Nation & World
A key to ending racism: Make it personal
In his new book, “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations,” Robert Livingston of the Harvard Kennedy School argues that racism can be battled with constructive dialogue.
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Nation & World
Black voters take the wheel
Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown explains how decades of painstaking activism culminated in Black voters’ decisive and historic role in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
Taking systemic racism from a solvable problem to an achievable solution
At a Kennedy School talk, lecturer Robert Livingston outlined ways organizations can help lessen racism.
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Nation & World
Lessons from an older Gilded Age for a new one
Professor Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discussed their new book, “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again,” at a Kennedy School event.
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Nation & World
Organizing, but not compartmentalizing
LaTosha Brown, founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, shares insight on increasing voter turnout in a post-election conversation on Feb. 11.
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Nation & World
Connection as an answer to turmoil
The Dalai Lama said that personal connections are the right response to the world’s turmoil, even amid COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Securing public spaces in the wake of Capitol violence
As the Capitol riot sparks a security surge, scholars mull how to maintain safe and open access to the nation’s symbols of democracy.
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Nation & World
Where are we now after a second impeachment?
The U.S. House of Representatives made history by impeaching a president for a second time.
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Nation & World
Democrats have both Congress and the White House — but not a free hand
In addition to winning the White House, Democrats will soon take control of Congress for the first time since 2007 after last week’s historic Senate runoff victories by the Rev.…
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Campus & Community
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, dies at 86
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, has died at 86. The professor of international economics also held many senior roles in U.S. government.
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Nation & World
Concern over storming of the Capitol
In a stunning display, violent insurgents who support President Donald Trump briefly occupied the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, disrupting its work on certifying the presidential election. Harvard faculty reacted critically, and President Larry Bacow said the rioters “assaulted the democratic process.”
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Nation & World
Revelations of cyberattacks on U.S. likely just ‘tip of the iceberg’
A major cyberattack by what appears to be Russia targeted the U.S. government and top corporations.
