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January 25
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
What are the Welfare Costs of Shoreline Loss? Housing Market Evidence from a Discontinuity Matching Design
Matthew Ranson
Harvard University
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
January 30
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
The MIT Future of the Electric Grid Study
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12-1:30PM
February 1
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
The Impact of Voluntary Programs on Polluter Behavior: Evidence from Pollution Prevention Programs and Toxic Releases
Linda Bui
Brandeis University
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
February 2
Business & Government Seminar Series
The Logic of Reforms and Opening Up: Reform strategies in China and implications for the rest of the world
Fu Jun
Executive Dean, School of Government
Peking University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45 - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
See event coverage here.
February 4
Conference on Institutional Corruption
Conference on Institutional Corruption
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will host a conference on "institutional corruption," a topic it has been studying for the last two years under the auspices of the Edmond J. Safra Research Lab. The Center is hosting this conference to mark the progress the Lab has made, and to help guide future work.
Harvard Law School, Milstein East, Wasserstein Building, 2nd Floor
9AM-5PM
Click here to register or for additional information.
February 8
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Solomon Hsiang
Princeton University
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
February 9
Business & Government Seminar Series
Super PACs: The WMDs of Campaign Finance
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
To read Ben Heineman's accompanying articles on this topic, click below:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45 - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
February 13
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Restoring the Gulf of Mexico--An Energy Policy? An Historical Perspective on Energy/Environment in the Gulf Region
Jason Theriot
Energy Policy Fellow
Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
February 15
Business & Government Seminar Series
The Future of the Euro and the Role of Central Banks
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Former member, European Central Bank's Executive Board
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1PM
To learn more about this seminar, click here.
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
See event coverage here.
February 16
Center for Public Leadership Brown Bag Luncheon Conversation
Leadership in the British Parliament
The Rt Honorable John Bercow, MP
Speaker of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom
John Bercow is a British Member of Parliament and has been Speaker of the House of Commons since 2009, a role which sees him presiding over lively parliamentary debates as a neutral moderator. Prior to becoming Speaker of the House, Speaker Bercow had a successful career as Shadow Minister in opposition to the Labour Government of Tony Blair, defying the Conservative leadership on several occasions and ultimately winning an award for Opposition MP of the year. Speaker Bercow has also taught leadership, campaigning, and communication skills, both in Britain and in the U.S.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Darman Seminar Room (T-135), CPL, Taubman Build
Please RSVP here by 9AM on Monday, February 13.
February 22
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Aggression and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents
Jessica Reyes
Amherst College
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
February 23
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
Reviving Regulatory Reform
Christopher DeMuth
Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute
The regulatory reform movement, which ran approximately from 1975 through 1985, was intellectually robust and philosophically broad-based, and it achieved significant victories in practical politics. The policy landscape looks very different today. Federal regulation has been growing dramatically (even price controls are making a comeback), and the political debates appear highly partisan. But in fact the recent growth of regulation has been bipartisan (it was at least as pronounced under George W. Bush as it has been under Barack Obama). This lecture will diagnose the causes of regulatory growth and evaluate the leading reform proposals currently being considered. It will compare today’s central policy issues with those than animated the old regulatory reform movement, and argue that the earlier era produced important insights that could usefully be applied today.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
February 27
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Oil: The Next Big Surprises
Leonardo Maugeri
Senior Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
February 29
Business & Government Seminar Series
Life in the UN Executive Office: Working from the Inside to Tackle a Global Challenge
Joe Colombano
Senior Officer and Economic Advisor in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General
United Nations
For the past decade, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided the overall framework for international development policy. As the 2015 deadline for meeting the goals looms, the international community is called to accelerate progress on the MDGs and look beyond 2015. Having put sustainable development on top of the priorities for his second term, the Secretary-General is leading the efforts to devise a new development agenda. Joe will put an insider's view into how this is carried out on a day-to-day basis from the UN Headquarters in New York.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
March 1
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
Regulating the Shadow Banking System
Andrew Metrick
Michael H. Jordan Professor of Finance and Management
Yale School of Management
The "shadow" banking system played a major role in the financial crisis, but was not a central focus of the recent Dodd-Frank Law and thus remains largely unregulated. This seminar proposes principles for the regulation of shadow banking and describes a specific proposal to implement those principles.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
March 5
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Are Current Electricity Markets Suitable to Integrate Non-Dispatchable (Renewable) Producers?
Antonio Conejo
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
March 6
Business & Government Seminar Series
The Necessary Framework for Economic Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of India, Brazil, Israel, the Netherlands and Italy, and implications for Europe and the U.S.
Francesco Giavazzi
Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
Visiting Professor of Economics, MIT
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:30-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
See event coverage here.
March 7
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Benjamin Olken
MIT
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
March 7
Business & Government Seminar Series
Challenges and opportunities in regulating banks, insurance companies and retirement funds in Peru
Daniel Schydlowsky
Chief banking, insurance and private pension regulator in Peru
(head of Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP)
Regulators have been at the center of the debate (blame?) in the current economic recession. Thaking over the job of Chief Financial Regulator for Peru in mid 2011 has been quite a challenge: from applying Basel regulations in a growing economy, to licensing incoming Chinese (and other) banks, to ensuring market transparency, to reforming big-actor retirement funds. Daniel Schydlowsky, Peru's Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFPs will share an off-the-record hour on what it's like and how science and art need to get mixed into an effective policy.
This seminar is being co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer
12-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
March 8
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
Regulation, Unemployment, and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Eric Posner
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
University of Chicago
Regulatory agencies take account of the potential unemployment effects of proposed regulations in an ad hoc, theoretically incorrect way. Current practice is to conduct job-loss or feasibility analysis, under which the agency predicts the unemployment effects of a proposed regulation, and then declines to regulate (or weakens the proposed regulation) if the unemployment effects exceed an unarticulated threshold. Agencies do not reveal the threshold, do not explain why certain unemployment effects are excessive, and do not explain how they compare unemployment effects and the net benefits of the regulation. Many agencies also predict unemployment effects incorrectly. The proper approach is for agencies to incorporate unemployment effects into cost-benefit analysis by predicting the amount of unemployent that a regulation will cause and monetizing that amount. Recent economic studies suggest that monetizing cost of unemployment is significant, possibly more than $100,000 per worker. If agencies used this figure, there could be significant consequences for a wide variety of regulations.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
March 19
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security
Joel Schwartz
Harvard School of Public Health
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
March 20
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
Stressed Out: Macroprudential Principles for Stress Testing
Anil Kashyap
Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Nye A, 5th Floor, Taubman Building
11:45-1PM
March 21
Business & Government Seminar
Securitization: The Good, the Bad, and the Future
Mark Fagan
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
The process of transforming future cash-flows into tradable securities, most notoriously from subprime mortgages, was the cause of the recent financial crisis, according to some. Others passionately argue securitization is an essential source of capital enabling home and car ownership, small business expansion and even providing student loans for higher education. Please join Mark Fagan for a refresher on the mechanics of securitization, an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and a discussion of the role securitization will play in the post-Dodd-Frank world.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
March 22
City Week Panel
Strengthening Cities Through Experiential Learning
Cities have been called “our species’ greatest invention,” but they also can be places of poverty, decay, and corruption. In this session, HKS faculty, fellows, and students discuss their work to strengthen cities through innovative teaching and special projects that involve hands-on experiential learning. A focus will be how to expand opportunities for experiential learning at HKS.
Panelists include:
Susan Crawford
HKS Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment
Carolyn Wood
Assistant Academic Dean
SLATE Director
Jennifer Nash
M-RCBG Associate Director
James Solomon and Kendra Bradner
Organizer of the Community Development Project, a student group working on economic development projects in underserved areas
This event is being co-sponsored by the Office of Career Advancement and the Working Group on Enhancing Experiential Learning.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
March 22
Forum Event
A Public Address by Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet
Former President of the European Central Bank
This event is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
JFK Jr. Forum
6PM
See event coverage here.
Watch the lecture here.
March 26
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
But Will the Planet Notice? Why Only Economists--Not Recyclers--Can Stop Global Warming
Gernot Wagner
Environmental Defense Fund and Columbia University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
March 26
Business & Government Seminar
Rethinking Regulation
Cass R. Sunstein
Administrator
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Moderated by Richard Zeckhauser, Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Nye ABC, 5th Floor Taubman Building
12:30-2PM
Please RSVP to jennifer_nash@hks.harvard.edu
March 28
Business & Government Seminar Series
**CANCELLED**
Growth Measures in Time of Austerity: Comparing Europe and the U.S.
Alberto Alesina
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
March 28
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
April 2
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
China's Electricity System Reform
Yaodong Shi
Fellow
Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
April 2
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series
A Conversation with Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Interlocutors:
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Malcolm Salter, James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Ames Courtroom, 2nd Floor, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School
5:30PM
Visit www.ethics.harvard.edu for additional information.
April 4
Business & Government Seminar
The Durban Platform: Can it Support a New International Climate Regime?
Rob Stowe
Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Climate-change negotiators agreed in Durban, South Africa, in December 2011 to draft a new international agreement by 2015, which would take effect by 2020. The new agreement would be fundamentally different from the Kyoto Protocol, in that developing countries (at least the largest emitters among them) would take on commitments of the same type as industrialized countries. Just because negotiators agreed to draft a new agreement, however, does not mean it is going to happen. How did we get to Durban? Is the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action really a step forward? If so, how can we best build upon it?
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1:15PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
April 5
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
On the Quality of Economic Analysis at Independent Financial Regulatory Agencies
Randall Lutter
Visiting Scholar
Resources for the Future
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
April 9
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Current Practices and Future Opportunities: Managing Produced Water in the Marcellus
Meagan Mauter
Fellow
Energy Technology Innovation Policy and the Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1:30PM
April 12
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
Financial Regulatory Reform: Innovation in Regulatory Design and Implementation
Diana Farrell
Director, McKinsey Center for Government
Following the financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, revamping the financial regulatory regime (within political realities) was an imperative. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DFA), designed by the Administration and passed in July 2010 was one of President Obama's signature legislative successes. In this seminar, we will explore the context for framing financial regulation, approaches to and discussions of critical tradeoffs in modernizing oversight of the system, new regulatory tools and challenges facing regulators in implementation.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
April 18
Business & Government Seminar
Single-Payer Healthcare Reform in Vermont: Is it Economically Sustainable?
Timothy Christian, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Vermont has passed into law a sweeping health care reform bill that focuses on a single-payer system that will cover all Vermont residents. This is the first such initiative in the US on a large scale. While the establishment of Green Mountain Care is law, the funding mechanism remains undetermined at this time. This seminar will examine the issues that lead to this adoption of reform and the challenges that lie ahead. Of particular interest is the small economy of Vermont (smallest in the US) and the impact the bill will have on the business community and economic sustainability. Comparison of this proposed system to other health care reforms in the US will be discussed. Prior knowledge of healthcare reform is not required.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
April 19
Business & Government Seminar
Responsible Corporate Supply Chain Practices: Apple in Context
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Two related op-ed pieces can be found here:
Apple is about to discover the price of fair labor
In defense of responsible offshoring and outsourcing
This event is being co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for International Science and International Affairs.
Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor Littauer Building
12-1PM
April 23
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Seminar Series
Living Sustainable Development: Opportunities for Planets, Places, and People
William Clark
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development
Co-director, Sustainability Science Program
Professor Clark will not only convey the big picture of sustainable development challenges that affect the whole planet--he will also bring these challenges down tot he level of policy choices and personal decisions.
This event is being co-sponsored by the HKS Sustainability Initiative.
Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman
1-2PM
April 24
Public-Private Study Group Presentation
Developing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Business Models
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) asked HKS graduate students to provide an independent assessment of potential business models for developing public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV.) Alan M. Trager, Senior Fellow and Chair of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Study Group at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, oversees the project. Seven students from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Stanford Business School have developed business models and recommendations. This presentation follows a formal presentation to the DOE by the PPP Study Group.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
8:30-9:30AM
April 25
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Distributional Consequences of Water Markets: Local Economic Spillovers from Agricultural Water Use
Pinar Keskin
Wellesley College
Room L-382
4:10-5:30PM
April 30
ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Internalizing the Environmental Impacts of Offshore Energy Development
James Tripp
Senior Counsel
Environmental Defense Fund
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12-1:30PM
April 30
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Seminar
Economic Gardening: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Economic Development
Christian Gibbons
Director of Business/Industry Affairs
Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado's Economic Gardening program focuses on enhancing the city's home-grown industries to increase job growth and overall economic prosperity for the region.
Launched in 1987, Economic Gardening gives emerging growth Stage II businesses assistance in competitive market research, trade area analysis, social media, and web marketing grounded in a host of scientific theories adapted to entrepreneurship. The program reports that since its creation, the city's job base has nearly doubled (from 15,000 to 27,000) and sales tax revenue has tripled (from $6 million to $20 million), while the population has increased by 23 percent. Moreover, the city's industry is now more diversified: from primary oil and defense contracts previously to telecommunications, healthcare, engineering, software, and other industries today.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
4:10-5:30PM
RSVP to christina_marchand@harvard.edu
May 9
Business & Government Seminar Series
Governance, Leadership and Democracy
Kim Campbell
Former Canadian Prime Minister
This event is being co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership, The Women and Public Policy Program, Institute of Politics, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12-1:00PM
September 11
M-RCBG Fall Open House
Please come and learn more about our programs, faculty and student activities. Pizza, dessert and beverages will be provided.
Bell Hall
12-1PM
September 13
Sustainability Science Program Seminar
Sustainable Sourcing of Global Agricultural Raw Materials
Tom Tomich
Director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute
University of California at Davis
Perkins Room, Rubenstein-415
10-11:30AM
September 13
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment
Robert Stavins
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
11:45-1PM
View the video here.
September 17
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
The Hidden Costs of Energy
James Hammitt
Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences
Director, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:30-2PM
September 19
Seminar
The Challenges of Running a Major Public Pension Plan: The Case of Florida
Politics, Pension Envy, and Prudential Policy
Ash Williams
Executive Director and CIO
Florida State Board of Administration
Moderated by Brant Maller, CEO/President of Alternative Investments Forum and Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
3-4PM
September 19
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Seth Moulton
Managing Director
Lone Star High-Speed Rail
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
September 20
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
David Vogel
Department of Political Science and Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer
11:45-1PM
Watch the video here.
September 24
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Who Pays Fuel Taxes and What Does it Mean for Policy?
Erich Muehlegger
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
September 24
Seminar
Economic Crisis: A Window of Opportunity to Implement Vital Reforms
Rimantas Zylius
Minister of Economy
Lithuania
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
2:15-3:15PM
This event is being co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Watch the video here.
September 24
Seminar
Responding to European and International Challenges: Austria's Foreign Policy
Michael Spindelegger
Austrian Foreign Minister
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
4-5PM
Watch the video here.
September 26
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Carl Dietrich
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder
Terrafugia
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
October 1
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Putting Free Enterprise to Work on Energy and Climate
Bob Inglis
U.S. Rep. (R-SC4) 1993-1999; 2005-2011
Director, Energy & Enterprise Initiative
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
October 2
M-RCBG Student Reception
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government invites all students to a reception with
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
John Haigh
HKS Executive Dean
Co-Director, Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor Littauer Building
3:30-4:30PM
Please RSVP to mrcbg@ksg.harvard.edu
October 3
Seminar
A 61-Million-Person-Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization
A discussion of the impact of Facebook and other social networks on voter turnout. The paper on this topic was featured in a September 2012 Nature Magazine cover story, and additional coverage has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, NBCNews.com, CNN, Time, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, NPR, and many other publications.
James Fowler
Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science
University of California, San Diego
Nye B, 5th Floor Taubman Building
3-4PM
This seminar is being co-sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
October 3
Sustainability Science Program Seminar
Sustainability, Nations and Globalization: Can We Have Them All?
Joel Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor, Laboratory of Populations
Rockefeller University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
4:00-5:30PM
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
To read Harvard Gazette coverage of this seminar, click here.
October 3
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
The Debate on Discounting: Reconciling Positivists and Ethicists
Christian Gollier
Toulouse School of Economics
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
October 3
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Gerry Mooney
General Manager
IBM Global Smarter Cities
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
October 4
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
Positive v. Normative Justifications for Benefit-Cost Analysis
James K. Hammitt
Professor of Economics & Decision Sciences
Harvard School of Public Health
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer
11:45-1PM
View the video here.
October 10
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Embracing our Differences: Heterogeneous Externalities and their Implications for Welfare
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
October 10
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Josh Robin
Director of Innovation
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
October 11
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation
Matthew Baum
Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications
Harvard Kennedy School
Cary Coglianese
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard Zeckhauser
Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School
Regulation has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. In this seminar, contributors to the new book Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation will present their analysis of why leaders across the political spectrum today blame regulation for many of society’s problems. They will also offer lessons from successful and failed attempts to use regulation to address social problems.
Cary Coglianese is editor of Regulatory Breakdown and contributed the chapter “Oversight in Hindsight: Assessing the U.S. Regulatory System in the Wake of Calamity (with Christopher Carrigan). Matthew Baum contributed the chapter “Partisan Media and Attitude Polarization: The Case of Healthcare Reform.” Richard Zeckhauser contributed the chapter “Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies” (with W. Kip Viscusi).
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45-1PM
Watch the video here.
October 15
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Comprehensive Tax Reform and U.S. Energy Policy
Dale Jorgenson
Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Harvard University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
October 15
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
John Pucher
Professor of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University
TBA
4:30-6PM
October 17
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Learning and Experimentation in the North Dakota Bakken Shale
Thomas Covert
Harvard University
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
October 17
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Steve Poftak
Executive Director
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman
4:30-6PM
October 18
Annual Robert Glauber Lecture
Freddie & Fannie: Where They've Been, What To Do With Them
Charles "Ed" Haldeman
Former CEO, Freddie Mac
JFK Jr. Forum
6-7PM
October 22
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Oil Dependence: What Does it Really Cost Us?
David Greene
Corporate Fellow, Energy and Transportation Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Research Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Tennessee
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
October 24
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies
Howard Kunreuther
University of Pennsylvania
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
October 24
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Keeping the Wheels on the Bus Going Round and Round: The Challenges of an Urban School Transportation System
Carl Allen
Director of Transportation
Boston Public Schools
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
October 24
Special Event
Reflections on Public Service with Larry Summers
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Adams House Lower Common Room
26 Plympton Street
8PM
Click here to RSVP.
October 25
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
Beyond Rio+20: Collective Action within the Financial Sector
Introductions by Jane Nelson and moderated by Joseph Aldy
Matthew Arnold
Managing Director
JPMorgan Chase
Lance Pierce
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
CERES
Gwen Ruta
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships
Environmental Defense Fund
Organized jointly with the HKS Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
Bell, 5th Floor Belfer
11:45-1PM
October 29
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
The Political Economy of Oil in Latin America
Francisco Monaldi
Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, HKS
Director, Center on Energy and the Environment, IESA, Venezuela
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
October 30
M-RCBG Business & Government Seminar Series
**CANCELLED**
A Wake-Up Call for American Competitiveness
Fred Hochberg
Chairman and President
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Fred Hochberg will be introduced by M-RCBG Director Lawrence H. Summers.
This seminar is being co-sponsored by the Office of Career Advancement
Nye A, 5th Floor Taubman
12-1PM
October 30
M-RCBG 30th Anniversary Lecture
**CANCELLED**
The Vexed Relationship Between Business and Government
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and M-RCBG Director
Roger Porter
IBM Professor of Business & Government
Ben Heineman
Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Nina Easton
Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, Washington Bureau Chief for Fortune Magazine, and Fox News Channel commentator
JFK Jr. Forum
6-7PM
October 31
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Coal Fired Sales: Evidence on Incentives in Procurement and Regulation from Power Plant Divestitures
Steve Cicala
Harvard University
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
October 31
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Who's Afraid of Livable Streets?
Aaron Naparstek
Founder
Streetsblog
Paul White
Executive Director
Transportation Alternatives
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
November 1
M-RCBG Business & Government Seminar Series
Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Willy C. Shih
Professor of Management Practice
Harvard Business School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12-1:15PM
View the seminar video here.
November 5
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Electricity Sector Reform: Towards Low-Carbon Generation--Lessons from Europe and Germany
Christian Von Hirschhausen
Research Director, DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research)
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
November 5
CSRI Panel Discussion
Market-Based Solutions for Social Impact
Justin Bakule
Director, FSG
Talya Bosch
Senior Director, Social Ventures
Western Union
Anamitra Deb
Senior Project Manager, Monitor Inclusive Markets
Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor Belfer
5-6:30PM
RSVP to marli_porth@harvard.edu
November 7
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Bikes)...
Rachel Kaprielian
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
November 8
Business & Government Seminar Series
A Decade of Debt
Carmen Reinhart
Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45 - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
November 9
Brown Bag Discussion
Can the EU Be Saved?
A discussion with:
Hans-Peter Martin
Member, European Parliament
Austria
Faculty Dining Room, L-163
12 - 1PM
Please RSVP to jennifer_nash@hks.harvard.edu
November 13
Entrepreneurship Panel
Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship
The Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative at the US State Department is hosting entrepreneurs from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Morocco and Senegal for a tour of the United States. The entrepreneurs will be at the Kennedy School on Tuesday, November 13th for a panel, introduced by Dean Ellwood, to discuss the challenges and issues they face as emerging markets entrepreneurs.
Littauer-150
3-4:30PM
November 14
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
The Cost of Potential Cap-and-Trade Policy: An Event Study using Prediction Markets and Lobbying Records
Kyle Meng
Columbia University
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
November 14
Fall 2012 Study Group: Current Issues in Transportation Policy
Mobility in a Changing World: Innovating through Private Involvement in the Public Sector
Mark Joseph
Chief Executive Officer
Veolia Transportation
Taubman 401
4:30-6PM
November 15
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
Mandatory Regulatory Review at Independent Agencies
Nancy Nord
Commissioner
U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
11:45-1PM
To view the video, click here.
November 19
Special Event: 20th Annual Doyukai Symposium
Challenges and Opportunities for Japan over the Next Two Decades
This day-long symposium features opening remarks from HKS Dean David Ellwood and presentations by Harvard professors William Hogan, Joseph Nye, Roger Porter, Anthony Saich and Ezra Vogel, as well as presentations from members of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai business association of Osaka, Japan. Topics to be discussed include energy policy, security in the Asia-Pacific region and economic policy.
Capacity has been reached for this event - we regret that we are no longer able to accept reservation requests.
November 19
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
The Impact of Tax Credits and Grants on Wind Power Investment
Joseph Aldy
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
November 26
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Moving Forward on Climate Policy: What Do We Need to Know?
Gilbert Metcalf
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
November 28
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Up in Smoke: The Long Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Rema Hanna
Harvard University
Littauer-382
4:10-5:30PM
November 29
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar Series
Deciding by Default
Cass R. Sunstein
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
11:45-1PM
December 3
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
The "Stealth" Tax and the Biofuels Mandate: Exploring the Political Challenges of the Gasoline Tax
Hanna Breetz
ETIP Associate/MIT Ph.D. Candidate
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
December 5
Career Event
Navigating Your Career Through the Changing Landscape in Finance
Shelby Chodos
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Howard Fitzpatrick, MPA-MC '11
Vice President, J. P. Morgan
Steve Lydenberg
Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Co-founding Director of the Center's Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI)
Partner, Strategic Vision, for Domini Social Investments
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Career Advancement and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman
11:40-1:30PM
December 10
Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series
Carbon Taxes and Deficit Reductions
Jared Carbone
Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
12:15-1:45PM
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