December 9, 2004

Climate Change and the Financial Sector:
Understanding Risks and Opportunities

Thursday, December 9 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Henry Lee, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Mindy Lubber, Executive Director, Ceres
Jane Nelson (moderator), Director, CSR Initiative, Kennedy School of Government

December 7, 2004

Responsible Investment:
Key Trends and Future Directions in the United States and Globally

Tuesday, December 7 (Fainsod Room), 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Amy Domini, Founder and CEO, Domini Social Investments
Simon Zadek, Founder and Director, AccountAbility
Jane Nelson (moderator), Director, CSR Initiative, Kennedy School of Government

November 29, 2004

The Market for Virtue:
The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

Monday, November 29 (TaubmanB&C), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
David Vogel ,Professor, Haas School of Business, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

November 18, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, November 18 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Clifford Winston, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
" Competition and Welfare in the U.S. Airline Industry"

November 17, 2004

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Media

Wednesday, November 17 (L280), 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Richard Lambert, Member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England and Former Editor-in-Chief of the Financial Times
Alex Jones, Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy
John Ruggie, Weil Director, Center for Business and Government
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative

November 4, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, November 4 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Lester Lave, University Professor and Higgins Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
" Rethinking Electricity Deregulation"

November 2, 2004

Restoring Trust in Business: A Conversation on Corporate Responsibility

Tuesday, November 2 (Malkin Penthousel), 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Ben W. Heineman, Jr., Senior Vice President - Law and Public Affairs, General Electric Company
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative

October 14, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, October 14 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Robert Crandall, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
" U.S. Telecom Regulators as Tax Collectors"

October 7, 2004

Seminar Series: Corporate Governance

Thursday, October 7 (Perkins Room), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General, Massachusetts
"The New Realities of Corporate Governance "

September 23, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, September 23 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago
"Group Judgments: Deliberation, Statistical Means, and Information Markets"

August 9, 2004

Public Forum on the Federal Government's eRulemaking Initiative

Monday, August 9 (Bell Hall), 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Background information about erulemaking can be found at the Regulatory Policy Program's E-Rulemaking Resource Website: www.e-rulemaking.org

May 6, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, May 6 (Bell Hall), 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
George Gray, Lecturer on Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health
Dan Glickman, Director, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, and Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Former Member of Congress
Kathleen Merrigan, Director, Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Tufts University and Former Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Panel Discussion: “Mad Cow Disease: New Challenges for U.S. Regulation”

May 5, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

John List, University of Maryland
Michael Margolis, Resources for the Future
Daniel Osgood, University of Arizona
"Measuring the Preemption of Regulatory Takings in the Endangered Species Act: Evidence From a Natural Experiment."

April 29, 2004

Seminar Series: Corporate Governance

Thursday, April 29 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Paul M. Healy, James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“Which Types of Analyst Firms Make More Optimistic Forecasts?”

April 22, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, April 22 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Michelle Mello, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Law, Harvard School of Public Health
“Litigation as Regulation in Public Health”

April 21, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Michael Greenstone and Justin Gallagher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program."

April 8, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, April 8 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Joseph E. Bowring, Manager, PJM Market Monitoring Unit
"Market Monitors: An Institutional Innovation in Electricity Regulation"

April 7, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Wayne Gray, Clark University
Cynthia Morgan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ronald Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts
"The Spatial Distribution of Air Quality Improvements Under the Clean Air Act Amendments.

March 25, 2004

Another World Is Possible: The Role of the Private Sector

Oded Grajew, Director/President, Ethos Institute for Business Social Responsibility; Originator, World Social Forum; President, Administrative Council of the ABRINQ Foundation for Children's Rights
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative

March 25, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, March 25 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Ryozo Hayashi, Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government
"Economic Reform and Changing the Policy Process: The Case of the Koizumi Government"

March 24, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Nathaniel Keohane, Yale University
Meghan Busse, University of California, Berkeley
"Who Gained from Environmental Regulation? Low-Sulfur Coal and the 1990 Clean Air Act."

March 18, 2004

Seminar Series: Corporate Governance

Thursday, March 18 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Robert Steel, Former Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government
"Corporate Governance: A Perspective from the Investment Banking Community."

March 17, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Thomas DeLeire, Harvard University
Helen Levy, University of Chicago
"Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death on the Job."

March 11, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, March 11 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Wayne Gray, Professor, Department of Economics, Clark University
“Measuring Regulatory Effectiveness: OSHA Inspections and Workplace Injuries”

March 4, 2004

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE LAUNCH EVENT

11:30am - 5:45pm Critical Issues Workshop
6:00pm - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum: "The Public Role of Private Enterprise" (open to the public)
7:30pm - 9:30pm Dinner

March 3, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Cynthia Lin, Harvard University
"Environmental Federalism and Regulatory Delegation: An Incomplete Contracting Approach"
Spring 2004, Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Room L-332, 79 John F. Kennedy Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

February 26, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, February 26 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government
William G. Rosenberg, Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government
“The 1990 Clean Air Act: Environmental Policy in the George H.W. Bush Administration”

February 12, 2004

Seminar Series: New Directions in Regulation

Thursday, February 12 (Bell Hall), 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Einer Elhauge, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Sacrificing Corporate Profits in the Public Interest."

February 11, 2004

WORKSHOP ON IGCC DEVELOPMENT:
Financing and Deploying IGCC Technology in this Decade

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

February 11, 2004

Lecture: "Managing IT as a Business"

Mark Lutchen, PWC
"Managing IT as a Business"

February 11, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY SEMINAR

Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
"Back to the Future, Part II: Long-Term Discounting."