10th Anniversary Seminar Series
Hauser Center 10th Anniversary Seminar SeriesTo take stock of the intellectual achievements of the first decade and to better understand the challenges ahead, Professors Stone and Moore collaborated on a 10th Anniversary Seminar Series and Colloquium that engaged leading scholars and practitioners in a year-long discussion of the forces shaping the nonprofit sector worldwide.
Fall
2007
In the Fall 2007 Term, Mark
Moore organized a series of seminars led by the scholars
whose work distinguished the Center’s first decade.
AMERICAN GRACE: THE CHANGING CONTRIBUTION OF
RELIGION TO AMERICAN CIVIC LIFE
With
Robert Putnam
Peter and Isabel Malkin
Professor of Public Policy
TAKING THE MEASURE OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR
With
Christopher Winship
Diker-Tishman Professor of
Sociology
NOT YOUR FATHER'S NONPROFIT SECTOR: BEYOND
INSTRUMENTAL CONCEPTIONS OF PHILANTHROPY, VOLUNTARISM, AND
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
With
Mark H. Moore
Hauser Professor of
Nonprofit Organizations
Peter Dobkin Hall
Hauser Lecturer in Public
Policy
TEACHING NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT IN DISTANCE LEARNING
MODES
With
Christine Letts
Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in
the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit
Leadership
THE ROLE OF VALUES IN ANIMATING AND GUIDING
ORGANIZATIONS
With
J. Richard Hackman
Edgar Pierce Professor of
Social and Organizational Psychology
THE SOCIAL GOVERNANCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE:
ARE ALL ORGANIZATIONS PUBLIC?
With
Herman Dutch B. Leonard
George F Baker, Jr
Professor of Public Management in the John F Kennedy School
of Government; Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of
Business Administration
Spring 2007
For the Spring Term, Chris
Stone organized a series of panels on which scholars and
practitioners explored questions crucial to the future of
the sector. The questions include:
(a) how is globalization reshaping the business models of
major arts and cultural institutions?
(b) what future roles will international humanitarian NGOs
play in international politics and relations among states?
(c) could greater use of the nonprofit form of corporation
in the news media reverse the deterioration of journalism
that seems to have accompanied ownership by public,
for-profit corporations?
(d) how can NGOs contribute to greater worker protection in
developing countries, and
(e) is there a distinctive role for international private
philanthropy in the reduction of poverty in developing
countries?
A NEW FUTURE FOR THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
A Panel Discussion with:
Peter Gelb
General Manager, The
Metropolitan Opera
and
V. Kasturi Rangan
Malcolm P. McNair
Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School
THE FUTURE OF NONPROFIT JOURNALISM
A Panel Discussion with:
Bill Baker
President Emeritus,
Thirteen/WNET
and
Thomas Patterson
Bradlee Professor of
Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy
School
TRANSNATIONAL PHILANTHROPY AND POVERTY
REDUCTION
A Panel Discussion
with:
Steven Lawry
Senior Research Fellow,
The Hauser Center
Barry Gaberman
Chair,
BoardSource
Sheela Patel
Founder & Director,
SPARC
Lant Prichett
Professor of the Practice
of Economic Development, HKS
WORKER PROTECTION IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
The Role of Government, Business and Civil Society
A Conversation with:
Mary Robinson
Chair, Realizing Rights:
the Ethical Globalization Initiative;
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(1997-2002);
President of Ireland (1990-1997)
Richard Freeman
Herbert S. Ascherman
Professor of Economics, Harvard University;
Faculty Director, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law
School
John Ruggie
Kirkpatrick Professor of
International Affairs, Kennedy School;
Director, Kennedy School’s Center for Business and
Government
Martha Chen (Moderator)
Lecturer in Public
Policy, Kennedy School; Coordinator, Women in Informal
Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO),
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
THE FUTURE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN CHINA:
POSSIBLE ROLES AND NEEDED CAPACITIES
A Panel
Discussion with:
L. David Brown
Panel Moderator
Associate Director for International Programs, The Hauser
Center
William Alford
Director, East Asian
Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Peter Geithner
Advisor, The Asia Center,
Harvard University
Former Ford Foundation Representative, China
Ailing Zhuang
Founder, Shanghai NPO
Development Centre
ARE NGOS CHANGING WORLD POLITICS?
A Panel Discussion
with:
J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Montgomery
Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life
Harvard Kennedy School
Robert Paarlberg
Betty
Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political
Science
Wellesley College
Jackie Smith
Associate
Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame
Peter Bell
Senior
Research Fellow, The Hauser Center
Chair, NGO Leaders Forum
The
material presented in the Spring portion on the future of
the nonprofit sector will be available in a short volume in
2009.
Hauser Center 10th Anniversary Research Colloquium
To both celebrate the Center’s first decade and to spark discussion about future challenges facing nonprofit institutions, key players from both past and present convened in Cambridge November 26-27th, 2007, for the Hauser Center 10th Anniversary Research Colloquium. The Colloquium was organized around key "intellectual foundations" defined by the Center ten years ago – including theories about the nature, role, and impact of the voluntary sector; the development of international communities that could act effectively to deal with global problems even without a government; and the economic, social and political development of countries emerging from totalitarian regimes. There was broad consensus among participants that the Center’s work over the past decade has helped recast the view of the voluntary and nonprofit sector. For additional information on the Colloquium, please read the HKS news story.
