December 17, 2002

Corporate Governance Working Group
Dialogue Session

"The Role of the SEC in Regulating Corporate Markets," Elizabeth Keating, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

December 12, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"The Role of Self-Regulation in Financial Markets,"Robert Glauber, Chairman and CEO, NASD, Inc.

December 12, 2002

New Directions in Digital Government Seminar

Professor Lewis M. Branscomb, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government: Integrating Information and Institutions

December 11, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Wolfram Schlenker, Michael Hanemann, and Anthony Fisher, University of California,“The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis"

December 10, 2002
6:00pm

FORUM EVENT

"From Financial Crisis to Recovery?: Asia Since 1997"

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of State, Singapore
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Director, Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund
Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University
Dwight Perkins, Director, Harvard Asia Center

Sponsored by CBG's Asia Programs

December 10-11, 2002

CONFERENCE

"Financial Sector Reform Across Asia: Facts, Analyses, Solutions"

Sponsored by CBG's Asia Programs

Please also see last year's conference, "Financial Sector Reform in China."

December 9, 2002

KSG Communications Program

Linda Peek Schacht, Center for Public Leadership and Center for Business and Government,“Leadership Communications: Start With What You Believe”

December 4, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Thomas Lyon and John Maxwell, Indiana University,“Interest Group Lobbying and Corporate Strategy”

December 3, 2002

Leadership Council Quarterly Meeting

"Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Terrorism: North Korea and Iraq,"Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School

December 3, 2002

Corporate Governance Working Group
Dialogue Session

"Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility,"James T. Hamilton, KSG Visiting Associate Professor, Duke University

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

November 22, 2002

Weil Program on Colaborative Governance

"A Discussion on Current Perspectives"

November 21, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"Reforming Corporate Governance,"Lucian Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School

November 20, 2002

FORUM

"Leadership in Corporate America"

A discussion withLou Gerstner, Chairman, IBM
Interviewed by David Gergen, Professor of Public Service, KSG

Co-sponsored with the Center for Public Leadership, Consortium on Global Leadership Science and Technology PIC, and the Institute of Politics.

November 20, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Shulamit Kahn, Boston University, and Christopher Knittel, University of California,“The Impact of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 on Electric Utilities and Coal Mines: Evidence from the Stock Market”

November 19, 2002

Corporate Governance Working Group
Dialogue Session

"Analyzing Enron,"Tom Healey, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

November 14, 2002

New Directions in Digital Government Seminar

Kuno Schedler, Professor for Management Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

Co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government: Integrating Information and Institutions.

November 13, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Ted Gayer, Georgetown University,“Motor-Vehicle Regulations and the Fatality Risks of SUVs, Vans, and Pickups”

November 7, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"The Roots of California's Energy Crisis -- Law, Policy, Politics and Economics,"Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Kennedy School of Government

November 6, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University, and Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago,“Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life”

November 5, 2002

Institute of Politics Discussion Series

"American Leadership in a Time of Crisis"

Roger B. Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, CBG

Ted Sorenson , former Special Counsel to President John F. Kennedy and IOP Fellow

November 5, 2002

Corporate Governance Working Group
Dialogue Session

"Business in the Community," Richard Lambert, Fellow, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

November 4, 2002

New Directions in Digital Government Seminar

"The Co-evolution of Knowledge Networks and the 21st Century,"Noshir Contractor, Professor of Speech Communication and Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government and the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks

October 31-November 1, 2002

Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program

Policy Group Meeting hosted by Dr. Jerry Grossman, Senior Fellow

October 31, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"After the Johannesburg Summit: The Politics of Sustainable Development,"Leslie Carrothers, Vice President, Environmental Health and Safety, United Technologies Corporation

October 23, 2002

Institute of Politics Discussion Series

"The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century"

John G. Ruggie, Director, CBG

Gillian Sorenson , Assistant Secreatry General for External Relation, United Nations and IOP Fellow

October 21, 2002

FORUM

"The United Nations' Search for Peace:
A Talk with Three UN Special Representatives to the Secretary General"

Ambassador JACQUES PAUL KLEIN, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dr. BERNARD KOUCHNER, Former Special Representative of the Secretary General in Kosovo
JAMES LEMOYNE, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on International Assistance to Colombia
JOHN RUGGIE (Moderator), Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Director, Center for Business and Government

Co-sponsored by KSG's Project on Justice in Times of Transition, KSG's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, KSG's Center for Business and Government, HSPH's Francois-Xavior Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institutte of Politics

October 17, 2002

KSG Communications Workshop

"Truth and Spin: Can This Marriage Be Saved? "
How can leaders communicate to restore trust? Is "spin" so identified with lying that it has no place in today's world? Was John McCain onto something with his Straight Talk Express -- or was that the ultimate spin? This workshop uses examples from leaders in the public and private sectors to help you craft messages that are factual, persuasive and credible.

Linda Peek Schacht, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government

Co-sponsored by the Center for Business and Government and the Center for Public Leadership

October 17, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"WTO: Sovereign Contracting or Contracting Sovereignty?,"Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, Kennedy School of Government

October 16, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

David Popp, Syracuse University,“Endogenous Technological Change in the DICE Model of Global Warming"

October 16, 2002

New Directions in Digital Government Seminar

David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Computer Sciences and Director, Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Does Technology Matter to Digital Government?"

Sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government

October 9, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Ann Wolverton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,“Does Race Matter? An Examination of Polluting Plants’ Location Decisions”

October 5, 2002

CONFERENCE

"Shrinking World, Expanding Net"

The 2002 Annual Conference of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility will examine the state of CPSR as a global organization, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a global force.

October 3, 2002

FORUM EVENT

"ASEAN and the Challenge of Globalization"
Rodolfo Severino, secretary general, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Sponsored by Harvard College Chinese Student Association, CBG's Asia Programs, and the Institute of Politics

October 3, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"Accounting for Social Security and Its Reform,"Howell Jackson, Finn M.W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

October 3, 2002

Leadership Council Quarterly Meeting

"President Bush and Economic Policy: A Mid-Term Assessment", Roger B. Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, KSG

September 29-October 11, 2002

Executive Education Program

"The Practice of Trade Policy: Economics, Negotiations, and Rules," chaired by Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment

As international trade policies move beyond border barriers such as quotas and tariffs, towards issues that impinge more deeply on domestic policy and sovereignty, these questions are becoming more critical. Pressures to use trade policy to address issues such as intellectual property rights, labor and environmental standards, food safety, agriculture policy, foreign investment, and competition policy are increasing. This means those with a stake in global trade must have a greater understanding of both economics and trade rules, plus a higher level of negotiating skills. The Practice of Trade Policy: Economics, Negotiations, and Rules is designed to provide that training.

September 27-28, 2002

Young Faculty Leaders Forum

The Forum brings together 34 of the nation's most talented young faculty members from 20 leading universities and a variety of academic disciplines who share a common interest in strengthening and reforming American education.

September 26-27, 2002

Harvard Electricity Policy Group

Twenty-Ninth Plenary Session

September 26, 2002

FORUM EVENT

"Designing Power Markets That Work: Market Ideology and Regulatory Reality"
William Massey, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Theresa Flaim, Tennessee Valley Authority
William Hogan, Harvard Univeristy

Sponsored by the Harvard Electricity Policy Group

View Forum event with Real Player.

September 26, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar

"Why Is There So Little Money in American Politics?," John de Figueiredo, Sloan School of Management, MIT

September 25, 2002

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko, Harvard University “The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability”

September 22-25, 2002

CONFERENCE

"International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation"

Sponsored by CBG's Asia Programs, Center for International Development, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

The conference exploreed the theoretical frontiers of the relationships between science and technology and globalization; examined the role of technological innovation and industrial clusters in the competitiveness of developing countries; identified options for ensuring that new technologies (including but not limited to information and telecommunications technologies) benefit the developing world; mapped the contours of the emerging field of science and technology diplomacy; and outlined options for improving international cooperation in the field of science and technology.

September 21, 2002

2nd Annual CBG Family Tailgate Party!

Kick off the academic year with bar-b-que and fun before the Harvard/Holy Cross football game.

September 19, 2002

Social Networks Workshop

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, presented research methods for graduate students and faculty interested in the Internet and social networks.

Co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government and the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks

September 19, 2002

New Directions in Digital Government Seminar

"Netting Together: Has There Been a Turn Towards Networked Individualism?" Barry Wellman, University of Toronto

Co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government and the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks

September 17, 2002

CBG Fellows Welcome Reception

We were pleased to welcome the new Fellows and Senior Fellows to the Center. You may view the listing of current and incoming Fellows on the Fellows' webpage.

September 16, 2002
8:00pm

FORUM EVENT

"Corporate Fraud and Rattled Investors"
Ken Bertsch, Director of Corporate Governance, TIAA/CREF
Richard Breeden, Former Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The Honorable Jon S. Corzine, United States Senator (D-NJ)
Catherine Kinney, Co-President, New York Stock Exchange
Ira Jackson (Moderator), President, The Arthur M. Blank Foundation

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

View Forum event with Real Player.

September 6, 2002

CBG Open House!

Please join us as we welcome all new students. Faculty, fellows and staff will be on hand to discuss teaching, research and upcoming events within the Center.

August 26 - September 19, 2002

China's Leaders in Development

Asia Programs, the DRC and Tsinghua University's Executive Public Management Training Program brought 60 high ranked local and central government officials to Cambridge for the second half of its training program. This first-of-its-kind effort enhances the abilities of Chinese officials to develop new public management strategies and analytical skills as they navigate through a rapidly changing government-private sector relationship.

August 16, 2002

CBG Open House!

Welcome the new class of Mid-Career MPA candidates. Faculty, fellows and staff on hand to discuss teaching, research and upcoming events within the Center.

July 18-19, 2002

Harvard Project on Social Security

Co-Sponsord by the Center for Business and Government and AARP.

June 26-28, 2002

WORKSHOP

"PR China, Taiwan and the WTO: Implications and Impact – A Planning Workshop"

Sponsored by CBG's Asia Programs

This workshop brought together a small group of international scholars to discuss key issues surrounding the WTO accession of Taiwan and the PRC. The goal of this workshop was to decide on the design of a larger conference to be held in Taiwan in December, 2002.

May 30-June 1, 2002

Digital Government Workshop

A national workshop to develop a long-range, basic research program for digital government, made possible due to the generosity of the National Science Foundation's Digital Government Program.

May 30-31, 2002

Harvard Electricity Policy Group

Plenary Session in Cambridge, Massachusetts

May 17, 2002

CBG / IOP / City Year Community Service Day

CBG faculty, staff and fellows, along with the staff of the Institute of Politics, will join the City Year Organization for a day of service to give back to our community.

May 9, 2002

CBG Seminar

"The Rise of the Creative Class: How It's Transforming Work and Community and What It Means for Economic Development," Richard Florida, H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon University

Spring, 2002

"New Directions in Regulation" Seminar Series

View the schedule for Spring 2002

Sponsored by the Regulatory Policy Program

Spring, 2002

Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Complexity and Social Networks

View the schedule for Spring 2002

Spring, 2002

Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar Series

View the schedule for Spring 2002

April 29, 2002

ARCO FORUM EVENT

When Will Japan Reemerge?

Yasuhisa Shiozaki (MPA '82), Member, Japanese Diet
with:

Yutaka Kawashima, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government and Harvard Asia Center and Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan;
Bill Overholt, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government and Harvard Asia Center;
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University;
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (moderator), Dean, Kennedy School

Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Policy Program at the Center for Business and Government

View Forum event with Real Player.

April 24, 2002

ARCO FORUM EVENT

"Governance and Globalization in Africa," Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

View Forum event with Real Player

April 12-13, 2002

Third Annual Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs

"Globalization after September 11: Has Anything Changed?"

The colloquium explored issues of terrorism, the purported clash of civilizations, globalization and governance, the economics of globalization, globalization and democracy, and the construction of a global criminal justice system. The concluding event was a conversation hosted by President Larry Summers with a number of distinguished panelists.

April 11-12, 2002

CONFERENCE

"Transatlantic Perspectives on US-EU Economic Relations: Convergence, Conflict & Cooperation"

Sponsored by the Center for Business and Government, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, The Schumpeter Society and The Austrian Marshall Fund Foundation, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies

April 11, 2002

ARCO FORUM EVENT

"Climate Change, The Bush Administration, and the Kyoto Protocol"

James Connaughton, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, The White House

View Forum event with Real Player.

April 9, 2002

Leadership Council Quarterly Meeting

"Decades & Cycles: American Economic Policy in the 1990s, and Lessons for the Future,"Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Center for Business and Government

April 4, 2002

CONFERENCE

"Economic Development and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region," 9th Annual U.S.-Japan Symposium

Sponsored by the Kansai Keizai Doyukai Program

April 3, 2002

Harvard Electricity Policy Group

Special Session in Atlanta, Georgia

For information, please contact Stephen Bird.

Topics: Beyond a Standard Market Design: focusing on the specific elements of Standard Market Design as it is incorporated into the new Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) structures. Spotlight on The Board: Governance: discussing the best potential governing structures for overseeing the RTO’s.

March 21, 2002

CBG Lunch Seminar

"Economic Reform in Northeast Asia: China & South Korea Lead, Japan & Taiwan Lag,"Bill Overholt, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government

Dr. William Overholt served as Head of Strategy and Economics at Nomura's regional headquarters in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001. Before a brief stint as Managing Director and Head of Research at Bank Boston's regional headquarters in Singapore, Dr. Overholt was at Bankers Trust, managing a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then serving as regional strategist and Asia research head based in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1998. While at Harvard, Dr. Overholt will be conducting research on financial reform in Asia, focusing predominantly on China and Japan.

March 18, 2002

ARCO FORUM EVENT

ENRON: Causes, Effects and Cures

Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA), Robert Pozen - former vice chairman, Fidelity Investments, Mary Schapiro - President, NASD Regulation, Inc. and Ira A. Jackson (Moderator) - Director, Center for Business and Government

Sponsored by The Regulatory Policy Program at the Center for Business and Government

To view the Forum video, please click here. (requires Real Player)
Please also see the Kennedy School's news story on the Forum.

March 18, 2002

Leadership Council Luncheon

"Why Business Leaders Should Care About Social Security Reform," Robert Pozen, Member of President Bush's Social Security Commission, and Lecturer in Public Policy, Kenney School of Government

March 14-15, 2002

CONFERENCE

Leadership 2002 - Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

Sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizantions and the Center for Business and Government

March 7, 2002

CBG Lunch Seminar

"The Future of the World Trade Organization,"Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute

February 28, 2002

Leadership Council Quarterly Meeting

"The Paradox of American Power," Joseph S. Nye, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government

February 21, 2002

CBG Lunch Seminar

"Vietnam's Chances for Growth: Is Aid a Help or Hindrance?" David Dapice, Vietnam Program, Center for Business and Government

Please also see David's paper, "Economic Policy in Vietnam in a Period of Economic Turbulence."

February 7, 2002

CBG Lunch Seminar

"A New Regional Architecture for Asia?"Dennis J. Encarnation, Asia-Pacific Policy Program,
Center for Business and Government

January 28, 2002

Leadership Council Meeting

"Self Regulation and the Securities Markets: the Problem with Analysts"Robert Glauber, Chairman & CEO, NASD, Inc.

January 25, 2002

CONFERENCE

"Bases for a Peaceful and Developing Society in the Islamic World: Rebuilding Afghanistan and Beyond"

Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Policy Program at KSG, the Boston Research Center and the Pacific Basin Research Center of Soka University of America

The project explored alternatives to a conventional "Western Model" that makes use of specific experience of transitional countries over the past 50 years in the hope of contributing to the creation of viable and productive post-war societies in Afghanistan and its Islamic neighbors. It included elements of "society-building," thus going beyond what was once called "nation-building," as a basis for international planning for postwar development.