Tag: Leaders!

  • Nation & World

    Principled yet just, pragmatic yet idealistic — and nice

    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, recipient of the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, talks about leadership challenges and how she’s dealt with crises from the outside, like the coronavirus pandemic, and from the inside, like self-doubt and sexism in politics.

    5 minutes
    Sherman abd Ardern in Zoom talk.
  • Nation & World

    How leaders are shaped

    The Harvard historian has a new book about five leaders — Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson — and what links their stories.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Finding her place by helping

    Jing Qiu ’16, an economics concentrator, decided to volunteer at the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard’s largest student organization. It changed her life.

    3 minutes