Tag: Roger Porter

  • 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.

    Coach Tommy Amaker at a 2012 game.
  • Nation & World

    What the election may tell us about the future

    The five panelists on a Tuesday roundtable discussed “Implications of the 2020 Election.”

    Danielle Allen.
  • Nation & World

    What would Dick do?

    A panel including Al Gore, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Porter, and Harvey Fineberg, with Graham Allison moderating, discussed what Richard Neustadt would have thought of the Trump presidency on the 100th anniversary of the late Kennedy School professor’s birth.

    Al Gore (l to r), former Harvard Provost Harvey Fineberg, and Roger Porter, current HKS Professor of Business and Government, share a laugh during a discussion on the presidency in the 21st century. J
  • Campus & Community

    House renewal in ‘full swing’

    The renovation of Dunster House, which will be the first full House to undergo renewal, is to begin immediately after Commencement and last 15 months. The Dunster community will be relocated for the next academic year to “swing” facilities, with its temporary hub at the former Inn at Harvard, which is undergoing a complete renovation.…

  • Campus & Community

    Dunster reimagined

    Newly revealed plans for the renewal of Dunster House show significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways.

  • Nation & World

    Making this economy work

    In honor of its 30th anniversary, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government brought together heavy hitters in economics and government to discuss how private and public leaders can help the United States thrive again.

  • 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).