FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS - QUICK BIOS
Christopher Stone is Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. His research and teaching cover both the reform of justice systems and the strategic management of public and nonprofit institutions. From 1994 to 2004 he served as director of the Vera Institute of Justice, where his work focused on institutional reform of police, prosecution, and public defense services both in the United States and internationally. Stone also serves as chair of Altus, an alliance of nongovernmental organizations and academic centers in Russia, India, Nigeria, Chile, Brazil, and the United States jointly pursuing justice sector reform. Stone began his career as a staff attorney for the public defender service for the District of Columbia and later founded the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Stone received his AB from Harvard, an MPhil in criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his JD from the Yale Law School.
William F. Baker is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and president emeritus of Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the licensee of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 New York, after serving as chief executive officer of EBC for 20 years. Baker has taken a leading role in helping to shape American broadcasting in both the commercial and public sectors. Author, lecturer and recipient of many honors and awards, he is a sought-after expert in the field and a well-known advocate for the educational potential of television. Baker previously served a dual role as president of Westinghouse Television, Inc., and chairman of Group W Satellite Communications, where he was instrumental in establishing five cable networks, including the Disney Channel and Discovery Channel. He received his BA, MA and PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University, and he is the recipient of honorary degrees from several universities.
Srilatha Batliwala is an Indian feminist activist and researcher based in Bangalore, India. She is currently Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and an Associate Scholar in the Building Feminist Movements and Organizations program of AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development). Prior to this, Batliwala was a Program Officer in the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, handling programs related to strengthening international civil society and the nonprofit sector in the United States. Before joining the Ford Foundation in late 1997, she worked for nearly twenty five years in India in a range of social change and gender justice activities that spanned grassroots organizing, advocacy, and research, with a deep commitment to gender equality and the women’s movement in India. Her work experience includes the co-founding of SPARC (1984-88), a Bombay-based NGO that organized and mobilized pavement and slum dwellers – particularly women – to struggle for sustainable, people-centered solutions to their housing and survival needs in the urban context. She was also founder and state program director of Mahila Samkhya Karnataka (1989-93), a Government of India special project for women’s empowerment which was instrumental in organizing over 30,000 poor rural women into village-level collectives which fought for changes in their social, legal and political status. She was South Asia Coordinator of DAWN (1993-96), the network of Southern feminist researchers and activists, and set and headed the Women’s Policy Research and Advocacy Unit (1994-97) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. She has published extensively on a range of development and women’s issues.
Peter Bell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and chairs the facilitation group of the NGO Leaders Forum. Before joining the Hauser Center, he was a visiting fellow at the Carter Center. Previously, Peter served as president of CARE USA for ten years. He has also been president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, president of the Inter-American Foundation, and Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. At the outset of his career, he worked for 12 years with the Ford Foundation, including ten years with its Latin American program. Peter’s volunteer positions include being chairman emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue, vice chair of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, a director of the Global Water Challenge, a director of Transparency International USA and a trustee of the World Peace Foundation. He is a graduate of Yale College and holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
L. David Brown is now a Senior Research Fellow, following ten years on the Harvard Kennedy School faculty as a Lecturer in Public Policy, and during which he coordinated international programs at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Prior to coming to Harvard he was President of the Institute for Development Research, a nonprofit center for development research and consultation, and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University. His research and consulting has focused on institutional development, particularly for civil society organizations and networks, that fosters sustainable development and social transformation. He has written or edited Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and Accountability for Transnational Civil Society; Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction (with Srilatha Batliwala); Practice-Research Engagement for Civil Society in a Globalizing World; The Struggle for Accountability: NGOs, Social Movements and the World Bank (with Jonathan Fox); and Managing Conflict at Organizational Interfaces. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India and a Peace Corps community organizer in Ethiopia.
Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy, is coordinator of the global research policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). An experienced development practitioner and scholar, her areas of specialization are gender and poverty alleviation with a focus on issues of employment and livelihoods. Before joining Harvard University in 1987, she lived for 15 years in Bangladesh where she worked with BRAC, one of the world's largest NGOs, and in India where she served as field representative of Oxfam America for India and Bangladesh. She is the author of numerous books including Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work, and Poverty; Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture; and Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India. Chen received a PhD in South Asia regional studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, conducts research on accountability and organizational learning in nonprofit and civil society organizations. He is author of the award-winning NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning and of the edited volume, Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (with Edward Weisband), which compares accountability across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Ebrahim’s professional work has included commissioned reports on World Bank-Civil Society relations and on NGO accountability at the Inter-American Development Bank. He also works with nonprofit executive directors in the United States on the challenges of organizational learning in poverty contexts. Ebrahim comes to Harvard from Virginia Tech, where he was founding co-director of the Institute for Governance and Accountabilities. He holds a PhD from Stanford University (1999), where he studied organizational behavior and environmental planning and management, and a BSc degree from MIT (1991).
Marion R. Fremont-Smith is Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She has been associated with the Hauser Center since 1998, where she directs research on governance and accountability of nonprofit organizations. She is the author of Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation. She has published two other books and numerous papers on government regulation of nonprofit organizations. Fremont-Smith’s interest in nonprofit organizations began in the 1960s when she served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of Public Charities in Massachusetts. In 1964 she joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart where she specialized in tax and nonprofit law. She was elected partner in 1971, retiring in 2004. Fremont-Smith received a BA from Wellesley College in 1948 and a JD from Boston University School of Law in 1951.
Archon Fung is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research examines the impacts of civic participation, public deliberation, and transparency upon public and private governance. Recent books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). Current projects examine democratic reform initiatives in electoral reform, urban planning, public services, ecosystem management, and transnational governance. He has authored five books, three edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in journals including American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Political Theory, Journal of Policy and Management, Environmental Management, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Boston Review.
Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960. In 1964, a year before graduating, he left to volunteer as a civil rights organizer in Mississippi. In 1965, he joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers; over the next 16 years he gained experience in union, community, issue, and political organizing and became Director of Organizing. During the 1980s, he worked with grassroots groups to develop effective organizing programs, designing innovative voter mobilization strategies for local, state, and national electoral campaigns. In 1991, in order to deepen his intellectual understanding of his work, he returned to Harvard College and, after a 28-year leave of absence, completed his undergraduate degree in history and government. He was awarded an MPA by the Kennedy School in 1993 and completed his PhD in sociology in 2000. He teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements, civic associations, and politics.
Celia Maria Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School. Her research addresses a fundamental question of public management: What can groups, organizations, and institutions do to engage their constituents? This research identifies means of overcoming barriers to, and speaks to the catalysts of, successful social engagement. In particular, her research focuses on the psychology of marginalized group members, seeking to understand how these individuals interpret and react differently than their socially included counterparts to the messages sent by their group. In recent research, she has examined how feelings of social exclusion enhance the motivation to comply with group rules while simultaneously decreasing interest in promoting group values. In doing so, Gonzalez uses insights from social psychology to inform issues of public management. She holds a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD in social psychology from New York University.
Allen Grossman was appointed Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Outward Bound USA for 6 years before stepping down in 1997 to work on the challenges of creating high performing nonprofit organizations. His current research focuses on leading and governing high performing nonprofit organizations and leadership and management of public school districts. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Peter Dobkin Hall is Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and former Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations. Before coming to the Kennedy School, Hall served as director of Yale’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations (PONPO) and held teaching appointments in Yale’s Department of History, School of Management, Divinity School, and Ethics, Politics, and Economics Program. Hall’s current research interests include the development of the welfare state and social welfare policy, the role of educational institutions in creating leadership and civic engagement, and the emergence of transnational institutions, communities, and identities. Hall’s publications include The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality; Inventing the Nonprofit Sector: Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations; and Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America. He coedited Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations and the chapter on nonprofits for Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. Full details at http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~phall.
J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also the Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. He served on the faculty of Georgetown University (1984 to 1992) and the Harvard Divinity School (1993 to 2001). His writings include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty; Catholicism and Democracy; and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition.
James P. Honan is Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education. Honan’s teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration. At Harvard, he is Educational Co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and is a faculty member in a number of Executive Education programs for educational leaders and nonprofit administrators. Honan has served as a consultant on strategic planning, resource allocation, and performance measurement and management to numerous colleges, universities, schools, and nonprofit organizations, both nationally and internationally. Previously, he served as Institutional Research Coordinator in the Office of Budgets at Harvard and as a Project Analyst in the Harvard University Financial Aid Office. He has also been a Research Assistant at the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Higher Education in Washington, DC, and has served as Executive Assistant to the president of Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nancy Kane is Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Educational Programs in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Heath. Kane's research focuses on the financial and managerial performance of health care organizations. Recent and ongoing projects include: analysis of individual health insurance markets at the state level -- how insurers and consumers behave, and policy implications; assessment of the financial performance of hospitals in a local market area in which a nonprofit hospital converts to investor-owned status; development of quantifiable measures of charitable activity, tax-exempt value, and financial performance of health care organizations; and case studies of the feasibility of implementing managed care tools in a variety of international settings. She received her D.B.A. in 1981 from Harvard Business School.
Joan Kaufman, Sc.D, is a Senior Scientist at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Director of the AIDS Public Policy Project and Adjunct Lecturer at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also Adjunct Lecturer in Sustainable International Development Program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Kaufman is the founding Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, a program which trains officials in China and Vietnam about the governance requirements for an effective AIDS response. Kaufman also works as the China Team Leader for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is also a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; China’s environmental challenges; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China’s relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China and the United States. He is Honorary Visiting Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, and Fudan University.
Steven Lawry is Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, where he manages a research program on transnational philanthropy and poverty reduction. Before joining the Hauser Center, he was President of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, from January 2006 to August 2007. Lawry held a variety of senior positions at the Ford Foundation from 1992 to 2006, including: Assistant Representative and Rural Poverty and Resources Program Officer for South Africa and Namibia from 1992 to 1997; Representative for the Middle East and North Africa, based in Cairo, from 1997 to 2001; and Director of the Office of Management Services at Ford’s New York headquarters from 2001 to 2006. Before joining the Ford Foundation, Lawry was Associate Director, responsible for Africa programs, at the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focused on land tenure arrangements and land reform in sub-Saharan Africa. He has lived in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, The Sudan and Egypt, and has worked extensively in South Africa, Uganda, Mali, India and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He received a doctorate from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison in 1988.
Jennifer Leaning is Professor of the Practice of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health. She is Co-Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Director of the Inter-University Initiative on Humanitarian Studies and Field Practice. Leaning's research and policy interests include issues of public health, medical ethics, and early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. Leaning serves on the boards of Physicians for Human Rights (an organization she co-founded), Amnesty International, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Oxfam America, International Rescue Committee, The Humane Society of the United States, and the Massachusetts Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross. She is Visiting Editor of the British Medical Journal, serves on the editorial board of Health and Human Rights, and is a member of the Board of Syndics at Harvard University Press. She received her M.D. in 1975 from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; a S.M.H. in 1970 from Harvard School of Public Health and an A.B. in 1968 from Radcliffe College.
Herman B. Dutch Leonard is George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management at Harvard Kennedy School and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and Co-chair of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School. He teaches leadership, organizational strategy, crisis management, and financial management. His current research concentrates on crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and performance management. He is a member of the boards of directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a 1-million-member Massachusetts HMO, of the ACLU of Massachusetts, and of the Hitachi Foundation. He was formerly a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Health and Education Facilities Authority and of Civic Investments, a nonprofit organization that assists charitable enterprises with capital financing; a member of the Research and Education Advisory Panel of the General Accounting Office; a member of the Massachusetts Performance Enhancement Commission; and a member of the Alaska Governor’s Council on Economic Policy. He served as Chair of the Massachusetts Governor’s Task Force on Tuition Prepayment Plans. He received his PhD in economics in 1979 from Harvard.
Christine Letts is the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the coauthor of High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact with William Ryan and Allen Grossman. Letts started her career in New York City government. After receiving her MBA from Harvard Business School, she spent 12 years in manufacturing management at Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana. She then spent four years in the Indiana State cabinet of Governor Evan Bayh. Letts’ current research includes the impact of donor behavior and funding models on nonprofit organizational capacity.
Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Her book, God Needs No Passport: How Immigration is Changing the Religious Landscape was published in 2007. She co-directs the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard. She is also co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project about how global discourses about women’s rights are translated to local contexts and a study of spiritual capital and immigrant incorporation funded by the Metanexus Foundation. Her book, The Transnational Villagers, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (edited with Mary Waters) was published by Russell Sage in 2002.
Jennifer McCrea is the founder and president of Sarvada Consulting, a firm she created to guide high net worth individuals and visionary leaders to rigorously and creatively leverage their philanthropic endeavors. Some of her current clients include Millennium Promise, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Preventive Medicine Research Institute founded by Dr. Dean Ornish, Harvard School of Public Health and the Quincy Jones Foundation. She’s also recently worked on projects for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, NPower New York and the Alliance for a New Humanity founded by Deepak Chopra and Nobel Prize Winners Oscar Arias and Betty Williams. A veteran fundraiser with more than 20 years of experience, Jennifer has held key leadership positions in two multi-billion dollar capital campaigns – at Case Western Reserve University and Washington University in St. Louis – and has personally raised over $100 million. She also served as Vice President for Development at Dickinson College. Recently, Jennifer co-founded the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, an organization that is uniting leaders in the music industry, nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations and philanthropists to make music an ongoing part of the lives of children in the U.S. She’s also a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Jennifer has a BA from Allegheny College and a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Case Western Reserve University.
Mark H. Moore is Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Kennedy School and Herbert A. Simon Professor in Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He founded and served as Chair of the Kennedy School’s Committee on Executive Programs for more than a decade. His research interests are public management and leadership, civil society and community mobilization, and criminal justice policy and management. His publications include: Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government; Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Targets of Justice; From Children to Citizens: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice; and Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing and Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies. Moore’s work focuses on the ways in which leaders of public organizations can engage communities in supporting and legitimatizing their work and in the role that value commitments play in enabling leadership in public sector enterprises.
Nancy Oriol is Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Dean for Students, and Director of Faculty Development, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), an HMS affiliate. She is a renowned anesthesiologist who has served as Director of Obstetric Anesthesia at BIDMC for 15 years. Oriol is an acclaimed innovator, whose medical breakthroughs include the “walking epidural” (a type of labor pain relief that does not interfere with the progress of labor), a novel technique for analyzing fetal heart rate variability, and an ingenious device for newborn resuscitation. She is a dedicated educator and the recipient of numerous HMS teaching awards, the New England Women’s Leadership Award in Health Care, the Massachusetts Medical Society Special Award for Excellence in Public Health, and the Louis Sullivan Award for Contributions in the Delivery of Health Care to Black Males. In 1992, with a quarter of a million dollars raised over the telephone and the help of an energetic HMS student, Oriol founded the Family Van, a mobile preventive health and social service program that provides free education, counseling, advocacy, and health care services to Boston’s economically disadvantaged neighborhood and serves more than 7,000 people every year.
Luther M. Ragin, Jr. is Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He is Vice President for Investments at The F.B. Heron Foundation, a national foundation with assets of $300 million located in New York City. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Ragin was the Chief Financial Officer of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities. Other significant experience includes eight years as Chief Financial Officer of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and seven years with Chase Manhattan Bank, including three years as Vice President of Syndications/Assets Sales for the North American Corporate Finance Sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Shore Bank Corporation, the nation's largest community development bank holding company, and The Threshold Group, an independent wealth advisor for high net worth families. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Classical Theatre of Harlem. Ragin holds a BA and Master of Public Policy from Harvard, and is a graduate of Columbia University's Executive Program in Business Administration.
V. Kasturi Rangan is Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. Chairman of the Marketing Department from 1998-2002, he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core First-Year Marketing course (was its head across multiple sections from 1993-1996), and the second-year electives, Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. Currently Rangan teaches the elective courses, Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Value and the Private Creation of Social Value, and Business at the Base of the Pyramid. In addition, he teaches in a number of focused executive education programs: Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director, International Education Policy Program; and Director of Global Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He focuses his research and teaching on identifying education policies that support teachers in helping low-income children succeed academically, and understanding the role of education in preparing students for democratic citizenship. His current research focuses on the relationship between teacher quality, educational expansion, and social inequality in Mexico and on civic education in Latin America. He has also studied and published about the utilization of educational research in policy reform. In addition to his research and teaching, Reimers advises governments, development agencies, and private groups involved in education reform in developing nations. He has worked in several countries in Latin America, as well as in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he worked at the World Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He is also active in several organizations supporting the development of global skills in American schools. Reimers has published several books, a number of which have been translated into other languages, as well as chapters and articles on education and development.
William P. Ryan is a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center and a consultant to nonprofit organizations and foundations. Both his consulting and research focus on nonprofit organizational effectiveness. He has explored how several forces -- including board governance, access to capital, foundation grant making practices, and competition with for-profit firms -- shape the capacity of nonprofits to deliver on their missions. He currently directs the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Project, a joint initiative of the Hauser Center and Harvard Law School aimed at engaging Harvard researchers in critical questions related to nonprofit governance. He is co-author of Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), which has been honored with awards from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and Independent Sector. He is also co-author of High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists, Harvard Business Review (March-April, 1997), and is author of The New Landscape for Nonprofits, Harvard Business Review (Jan.-Feb., 1999), which analyzes the rise of for-profit social service organizations.
Anthony Saich is the Director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; and Faculty Chair of Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and Harvard University’s Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this, he was Director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China, including China’s Science Policy in the 80’s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); The Governance and Politics of China (2004); Providing Public Goods in Transitional China (2008) and recently edited a book on China’s urbanization (2008, with Shahid Yusuf). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in China, England, Holland, and the U.S.
Ann Thornburg, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is a partner at and the Services Industry Leader for the Northeast and Metro New York Regions of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has more than 20 years of experience providing services to health care and nonprofit organizations. In her professional career, Thornburg has worked with virtually all of the hospitals in Massachusetts. She has extensive experience in integrated delivery systems, hospitals, and physician groups. Her consulting projects have included hospital corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, business plan preparation, and strategic financial planning for a wide variety of provider groups. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a BBA and Boston University with an MBA and also attended the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth College. She is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and a former member of its Health Care Committee. Thornburg is a former Chairman for the Hospital Committee of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, a former board member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and has served as an adjunct assistant professor for the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also chair of the Board of Trustees of Goddard House, the oldest nursing home in Massachusetts.
Christopher Winship is the Edmund Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a faculty affiliate of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University as well as a senior faculty research associate in the university’s Institute for Policy Research. He is the author of a variety of articles on various statistical issues including the analysis of qualitative dependent variables, selection bias, and counterfactual causal analysis. His research has also focused on changes in the social and economic status of African-Americans during the 20th century. In particular, he has examined changes in youth unemployment, marital behavior, and prison incarceration. For the past eight years he has been working with and studying a group of black inner-city ministers known as The Ten Point Coalition. He holds a PhD from Harvard.
Mario J. Valdivia is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. From 2007 to 2009, he was a senior fellow at the Business and Government Center at Harvard University. Early on in his professional career he worked at Exxon Minerals Co, and IM Trust & Co., a small Chilean investment banking firm partially owned by Bankers Trust NY Corporation. In 1991 Mario left IM Trust to found “Excel Chile Servicios Financieros S.A.”, which from 1992 to 2005 was affiliated with “Credit Suisse First Boston Inc.” In 1995 he founded a second company in Chile, in the records management industry, and acted as Chairman and controlling shareholder until 2004 when it was sold to Iron Mountain Inc. (USA). Past board member positions included with the following companies: Financiera Conosur (1992 to 1999); Farmacias Ahumada (1993 to 2007); Iron Mountain Chile (1995 to 2004); Farmacias Drogamed (Brazil) (2000 to 2004); Empresa Lactea Calan (2004 to 2005); Salmones Multiexport Foods (2004 to 2007); and Farmacias Benavides S.A. (Mexico) (2007 to date). From 1997 to 2007, Mario acted as a member of the financial advisory board of the Catholic Jesuit Order in Chile. Mario has a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad Católica de Chile, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.