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These listings are updated frequently. For additional listings, please explore individual M-RCBG program websites.
January 31 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Chris Jones
HUCE Fellow
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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February 2 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Scott Barrett
Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Columbia University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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February 3 |Brown Bag Lunch moderated by the Business and Government Professional Interest Council
David Ellwood
Dean
Harvard Kennedy School
Daniel Shapiro
Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project
Harvard Law School
Ricardo Hausmann
Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development
Harvard Kennedy School
Justin Fox
Editorial Director
Harvard Business Review Group
The Davos Debrief brings together several Harvard faculty just back from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In an information setting, Harvard faculty experts will share their unique perspectives on the global proceedings.
Malkin Penthouse, 5th Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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February 3 |Program on U.S.-Japan Relations seminar
Hirotaka Takeuchi
Professor of Management Practice
Harvard Business School
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), Knafel Building
12:30 - 2PM
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February 3 |Special Lecture sponsored by Harvard Law School, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School
Cathy Zoi
Acting Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
Pound Hall 101, Harvard Law School
12pm
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February 7 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Dan Schrag
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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February 7 |STS Circle at Harvard event
Jo Guldi
Harvard Society of Fellows
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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February 10 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Calestous Juma
Professor of the Practice of International Development
Harvard Kennedy School
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as Professor Juma will argue in this seminar, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology; the creation of regional markets; and the emergence of a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders dedicated to the continent's economic improvement.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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February 14 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Dick Benschop
Shell
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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February 14 |STS Circle at Harvard event
For information about STS Circle's event series, click here.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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February 17| Business & Government Seminar Series
Erich Muehlegger
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
This seminar discusses the extent to which regulated prices for natural gas exceed marginal costs. Research finds strong evidence that regulators set high per-unit markups for natural gas, with residential and commercial customers facing average markups of over 40%. These markups are equivalent to a carbon tax of over $200 / ton of carbon ($60 per ton of CO2), which is substantially higher than the carbon price envisioned by most policy makers. This suggests that if policymakers wanted to set an efficient price for natural gas that incorporated the cost of carbon emissions, they should LOWER natural gas prices.
Click here for access to the accompanying study.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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February 23 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Shawn Cole
Harvard Business School
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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February 28 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Sarah Jordaan
HUCE Fellow
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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February 28 |STS Circle at Harvard event
Christopher Winship
Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Harvard University
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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March 1 |Program on U.S.-Japan Relations seminar
Robert E. Cole
Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business and Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), Knafel Building
12:30 - 2PM
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March 2 |Lunch Seminar
William Symonds
Project Director
Pathways to Prosperity
Ron Ferguson
Senior Lecturer in Education and Public Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Education Secretary Arne Duncan helped release this major new report from the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in early February. Since then, the report has ignited a national conversation about why we are failing to equip so many young adults to succeed – and whether we are overemphasizing a 4-year college degree as the primary pathway to success. The report advocates systemic changes in the US approach to education and youth development, including a much greater effort to engage employers in the education and training of young adults; a new “social compact” with our youth; and the development of “multiple pathways” to success, including more emphasis on career education and career counseling. This seminar will include presentations by two of the report’s authors – Ron Ferguson and Bill Symonds – and include ample time for discussion. For additional information on the Pathways to Prosperity Project, click here.
To see a Harvard Gazette article on the study, click here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
1-2:15PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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March 2 |Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston seminar
Jay H. Walder
Chairman and CEO, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Harvard Kennedy School MPP '83
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building
4pm
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March 7 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Greg Nemet
Visiting Scholar
Weil Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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March 7 |STS Circle at Harvard event
William Hurlbut
Stanford University Medial Center
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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March 8 |Brown Bag Discussion
Bob Massie
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Responsible Investment
As we rocket forward into the 21st century, questions have erupted around the world about whether the financial and economic information used by corporations, investors, and governments is guiding us towards -- or away from -- sustainable prosperity. This debate has in turn raised fundamental questions about the purpose of the modern corporation, the relationship between shareholders and stakeholders, and the alignment of corporate actions with long-term public policy objectives. Global accounting societies and firms are actively pursuing a merger of financial and sustainability disclosure; the results are likely to shape the structure of the global economy for decades to come. Bob Massie, the former president of Ceres, co-founder of the Global Reporting Initiative, and Senior Fellow at the Hauser Center's Initiative for Responsible Investment, will review the state of the international debate and what it means for the future of capital markets and public policy.
Belfer L4
12:30-2PM
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March 9 | Lunch Seminar
Dan Levine
Principal, MetroCompare LLC
HKS MPP Alum, 1985
Despite overwhelming evidence that the interstate competition for jobs is failing to promote economic growth anywhere, states continue to commit increasing amounts of resources to this zero sum game. In a world of fiscally broke states and retrenching federal spending, how might federal and state economic development agendas be better synchronized to promote a more productive economic development agenda? Join a leading practitioner in a discussion on what companies look for in a community, how might the public sector better respond, and what new approaches might work better in the future.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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March 9 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
David Herberich
University of Chicago
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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March 10 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Tom Healey
Adjunct Professor in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Many cite excessive leverage among the biggest investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch) as a root cause of the 2008 financial crisis. Not long before Lehman Brothers collapsed, Lee A. Pickard, a former SEC official wrote, “the losses incurred by Bear Stearns and other large broker-dealers were not caused by ‘rumors’ or a ‘crisis of confidence,’ but rather by inadequate net capital and the lack of constraints on the incurring of debt.” Simple anecdotal evidence supports that conclusion – three of the firms no longer exist and the other two became bank holding companies in shotgun weddings. In this seminar, Tom Healey will explore the reality of leverage at the investment banks as well as examine what really caused the run on these banks at the heart of the 2008 crisis.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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March 21 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Laura Diaz Anadon
Matthew Bunn
Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Harvard University
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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March 21 |STS Circle at Harvard event
For information about STS Circle's event series, click here.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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March 23 | Business & Government Professional Interest Council
Frans Johansson
CEO of The Medici Group
Mark Tracy
Mid-career MPA student
Harvard Kennedy School
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
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March 24 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Jack Donahue
Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Zeckhauser
Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. In this seminar, Jack Donahue will offer solutions by demonstrating how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively.
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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March 28 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Erich Muehlegger
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
This seminar discusses the extent to which regulated prices for natural gas exceed marginal costs. Research finds strong evidence that regulators set high per-unit markups for natural gas, with residential and commercial customers facing average markups of over 40%. These markups are equivalent to a carbon tax of over $200 / ton of carbon ($60 per ton of CO2), which is substantially higher than the carbon price envisioned by most policy makers. This suggests that if policymakers wanted to set an efficient price for natural gas that incorporated the cost of carbon emissions, they should LOWER natural gas prices.
Click here for access to the accompanying study.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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March 28 |STS Circle at Harvard event
For information about STS Circle's event series, click here.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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March 29 |Program on U.S.-Japan Relations seminar
Kotaro Tamura
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Member, House of Councilors, Japan (2002-2010)
Parliamentary Secretary for Fiscal and Economic Policy and for Financial Affairs (2006-2007)
This event is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), Knafel Building
12:30 - 2PM
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March 29 |Business & Government Professional Interest Council
Tim Massad
TARP Head and Assistant Treasury Secretary
Read about Tim Massad's visit here.
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman
11:45-1PM
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March 30 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Director, National Economic Council (2009-2010)
President Emeritus, Harvard University
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP for location to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
**Remarks made during this event are "off the record".
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March 30 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Robin Burgess
London School of Economics and Political Science
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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April 4 |STS Circle at Harvard event
Susan Silbey
MIT
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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April 4 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Henry Lee
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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April 5 |Forum Event
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Director, National Economic Council (2009-2010)
President Emeritus, Harvard University
Event Moderator: David Gergen, Director of HKS Center for Public Leadership
Introductions by: Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Relations
This event is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
JFK Jr. Forum
6PM
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April 6 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Simon Lewis
Chief Executive
Association for Financial Markets in Europe
The relationship between political institutions and the media has changed dramatically over the last ten years particularly with the advent of the internet and the 24/7 news cycle. In this seminar, Simon Lewis who uniquely has held the top communications roles at both Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street will explore whether the relationship has now become dysfunctional and what the implications are for democracy and the understanding of the political process.
This event is co-sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12:00 - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 7 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
President, Economic Strategy Institute
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 9 | Conference
This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.
Harvard Northwest Science Building
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Click here to register
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April 11 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Richard Vietor
Professor of Environmental Management
Harvard Business School
Weil Hall, Ground Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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April 11 |STS Circle at Harvard event
Duana Fullwiley
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Harvard University
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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April 12 |Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston seminar
Joshua Rauh
Associate Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Commentary by Greg Mennis
Assistant Secretary for Finance and Infrastructure
Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance
Fiscally strapped state and local governments have more than $3.5 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities, according to analyses presented in a series of papers by Rauh and Robert Novy-Marx. This figure is higher than what those entities have reported, they argue, because states and localities use flawed accounting procedures that misrepresent the value of pension liabilities by discounting at expected returns on assets. Many pension plans — including those run by the states of Louisiana, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut and local pension plans in such cities as Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Jacksonville and St. Paul — do not have assets in place to pay for already-promised benefits beyond 2020. Unless public pension systems are changed in fundamental ways, these looming problems could require substantial increases in taxes or large-scale cuts in public services.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building
5:30pm
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April 13 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Francisco Gallego
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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April 13 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
How should corporations and government conduct "worst case" scenario and crisis response planning? How should they weigh the costs of prevention and effective crisis response against the catastrophic costs of an unconstrained accident? How do these questions apply to problems caused by corporate mistakes, natural disasters or terrorist acts?
View a related article here.
This event is co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12:00 - 1:15PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 14 | Business & Government Seminar Series
John Haigh
Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Executive Dean of the Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 14 | Forum Event
Dr. Atul Gawande
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, HSPH;
Author, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Moderated by:
Cristine Russell
Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
This event is being co-sponsored by The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
JFK Jr. Forum
6PM
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April 15 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Nicholas Beale
Strategy consultant and Director, Sciteb
In this seminar, hear about recent research conducted by leading scientists and economists working to apply ideas from mathematical biology to financial regulation. One of the key findings relates to diversity and systemic risk. If a large number of banks expose themselves to the same extent to the same set of risk factors, then if one fails they will all fail. So if systemic regulators want to avoid multiple bank failures, they need to encourage banks away from “herding” and to adopt a range of distinctive strategies – what we call “Diverse Diversification”. Unless the herding is addressed, a harmonized global regulatory system may make matters worse: if all banks have the same incentives and constraints they are likely to adopt similar risk exposures. Diverse Diversification could allow systemic risk to be regulated without excessive capital in the banking system.
RG20 Neustadt, Ground Floor, Rubenstein Building
4PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 18 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Joseph Aldy
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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April 18 |STS Circle at Harvard event
For information about STS Circle's event series, click here.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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April 19 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Dani Rodrik
Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School
Moderated by:
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Director, National Economic Council (2009-2010)
President Emeritus, Harvard University
From the mercantile monopolies of the seventeenth century to the WTO, IMF, and World Bank of today, globalization has hinged on rules that extend beyond nations’ borders—rules that tend to raise the ire of their local opponents. In this trenchant critique, economist Dani Rodrik combines historical narrative with fresh insights to challenge the conventional wisdom that portrays the advance of globalization as inevitable—and as inevitably benign—and shows that globalization carries with it an unavoidable tension. Nations cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, self-determination, and economic globalization. If we want to preserve democracy, we have to choose between national sovereignty and globalization. If we want to preserve the nation state, we have to choose between keeping democracy and deepening globalization. And if we want to push for fuller globalization, we must sacrifice either the democratic political process or the nation state. We can have any two in combination, but we cannot have all three. Having shown that a healthy global economic system will not be attained without sacrifice, Rodrik gets straight to the core of the matter: which two should we keep? The answer lies in reinvigorating the Bretton-Woods compromise of 1944, which was based on the understanding that international economic rules would have to be subservient to domestic policy objectives and not the other way around. The paradox is that a less ambitious globalization is a better globalization.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:40AM - 1:00PM
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April 19 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Ahmed Reda Chami
Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Morocco
Morocco has witnessed an accelerated process of political economic and social reforms over the last decade, enabling it to be considered a regional competitive hub in the global economy. Morocco's authorities as well as private sector are fully committed to increasing the competitiveness of the economy and attractiveness to international investment. This seminar will focus on the political situation the region is facing, the Moroccan economy and its strategic development plans, as well as its investment opportunities.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative.
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building
2:30 - 3:30PM
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April 20 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Jennifer Nash
Executive Director, Regulatory Policy Program
Harvard Kennedy School
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that requires producers to assume physical and financial responsibility for their products when consumers are ready to discard them. EPR is practiced widely in Europe, where producers are required to collect and recycle packaging, electronics, automobiles, and other products. In the past half-decade, some 60 EPR laws have been enacted at the state level in the United States, requiring producers to collect and recycle electronics, batteries, leftover paint, and fluorescent lamps. This research considers the factors that are driving the EPR movement in the United States; what these state laws require of manufacturers, retailers, consumers, and governments; the performance of collection and recycling systems to date; and likely next steps for this policy trend.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45 - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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April 20 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Geoffrey Heal
Columbia University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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April 21 |Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
For information about this panel discussion hosted by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, click here.
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April 25 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Richard Sears
MIT Visiting Scientist
Senior Science and Engineering Advisor to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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April 25 |STS Circle at Harvard event
For information about STS Circle's event series, click here.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
12:15 - 2PM
Please RSVP to sts@hks.harvard.edu
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April 27 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Maureen Cropper
Resources for the Future
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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April 28 | Business & Government Seminar Series
Jon Gruber
Professor of Economics
MIT
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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May 2 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Jonas Meckling
Geopolitics of Energy Fellow
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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May 4 |Panel Discussion
Join a conversation with the members of Refrigerants, Naturally! about how corporations, NGOs and government can work together to make substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in a time of political austerity and contention. In the absence of binding international climate agreements, who will lead the charge to save the planet?
Refrigerants, Naturally! is an alliance of four high-profile private companies – The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, Unilever, and PepsiCo – and two international environmental organizations – Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme – dedicated to combating climate change and ozone layer depletion by developing, deploying, and promoting natural refrigeration technologies that are safe, reliable, affordable, and energy efficient. Refrigerants, Naturally! has prevented the emission of hundreds of thousands of tons of climate-harming and ozone-depleting greenhouse gases and is committed to eliminating f-gases in the commercial sector.
For additional information, click here. This event is being co-sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Nye Conference Center, 5th Floor Taubman Building
4 - 5:30PM
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May 11 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Nand Kishore Chaudhary
Founder, Jaipur Rugs
Mr. Nand Kishore Chaudhary, winner of the Ernst & Young 2010 Indian Entrepreneur of the Year Award, has brought large scale change to the Indian carpet industry with a new business model that connects the village artisan to the high value markets of the West. Jaipur Rugs, the company he founded in 1978, has grown to be a major trademark in the industry and is a case study in C.K. Prahalad’s book, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits.
Jaipur Rugs manufactures a range of handmade carpets. Carpet manufacturing is labor intensive and involves more than 60 processes for each final product. Carpet production processes are all accomplished by grassroots level people developed and trained by Jaipur Rugs Foundation, a social unit of Jaipur Rugs. Jaipur Rugs is working for the empowerment of poverty-stricken people in the most remote areas while supplying the highest quality products around the globe. The company has helped 40,000 jobless people become artisans. Mr. Chaudhary envisions growth to 100,000 artisans in five years.
Mr. Chaudhary will talk about the story of Jaipur Rugs, its business model, and its mission of large-scale social impact in which every artisan is an entrepreneur.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12:00 - 1:00PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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Ahmed Reda Chami was born in 1961 in Casablanca, has graduated from the prestigious engineering school, Ecole Centrale in Paris, and holds an MBA from UCLA. He has worked at Microsoft for 11 years, as the general manager of North and west Africa and head the South East Asia region. He is a very active and a well known member of the socialist party: USFP In October 2007, he has been appointed as a minister of Industry, Trade and new Technologies in charge of Investments.
These listings are updated frequently. For additional listings, please explore individual M-RCBG program websites.
September 7 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Charles Kolstad
University of California at Santa Barbara
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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September 12 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Massimo Filipini
University of Lugano
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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September 13|WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Robert Feldman
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.
Michael Reich
Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, and Director, Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Theodore C. Bestor
Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
This event is being co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)
CGIS Knafel Building
12:30-2PM
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September 14|Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Gautam Gowrisankaran
University of Arizona
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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September 15 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Paul O'Neill
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:15PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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September 19 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Francesco Venturini
President and CEO, Enel Green Power North America
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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September 26 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Prof. Ewald Nowotny
Governor of the Austrian National Bank
Governor Nowotny will discuss monetary issues from a European perspective, including why the European Economic and Monetary Union is essential, highlighting historic milestones during the formation of the EMU. A discussion of the Eurosystem's monetary instruments in times of crisis (including a short comparison of U.S. and EA economic fundamentals and the different role of the banking sector in the U.S. and in the EU/EA) will follow, in addition to lessons learned from the crisis, as well as the economic and financial policy challenges ahead.
View press coverage of this event here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
1 - 2PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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September 27|WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
R. Taggart Murphy
Professor, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Andrew Gordon
Moderator
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
This event is being co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)
CGIS Knafel Building
12:30-2PM
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September 30|WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Jeffry Frieden
Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University
This event is being co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Porte Seminar Room (S250)
CGIS South Building
12:30-2PM
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October 3 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
George Baker
Harvard Business School
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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October 5|Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Kenneth Gillingham
Yale University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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October 6 |Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Brant Maller
Founder, Alternative Investments Forum
Panelists:
David Russ
Former CIO, Dartmouth Foundation
Jim Geary
Maine Community Foundation
Professor Randolph Cohen
MIT Sloan School
Tim Cahill
Former Massachusetts State Treasurer
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
4:30-5:30PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 7 |Seminar
Miriam Schwartz Ziv
Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance
Harvard Law School
Miriam Schwartz Ziv examines boards that are relatively gender-balanced (a third of their directors are women): boards of business firms in which the Israeli government holds shares. First, she does not find a significant association between the proportion of women directors on board and financial performance. Second, she finds that women directors tend to be on the committees that discuss audit issues, as opposed to business issues, although their presence in board meetings, in which no additional appointment mechanism exists, significantly increases the likelihood that business issues be discussed, as opposed to audit issues. Last, she finds that a dual critical mass – defined as one which consists of at least three women directors and at least three men directors in attendance – most enhances the activeness of boards: Boards with such a dual critical mass were more than twice as likely as boards without one both to take an initiative (e.g., suggest which action should be taken) and to request further information or an update. To read the paper, click here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
This event is being co-sponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program.
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 12 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Antony Millner
University of California at Berkeley
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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October 13 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Thomas J. Healey
HKS Senior Fellow
Carl Hess
President of Towers Watson Investment Services, Inc.
To view the presentation, click here.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 14 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Michiel Godfried (Mike) Eman
Prime Minister of Aruba
In commemoration of 25 years of Aruba's autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Michiel Godfried "Mike" Eman will describe how this small island nation is successfully meeting the challenges of the global economy on wholly new terms. Prime Minister Eman is undertaking transforming leadership in Aruba: Social-economic progress based on creating a national consensus that supports smart growth capable of addressing the enormous challenge of delivering a lasting prosperity. His vision includes moving Aruba to 40% alternative energy and investing in shared goals, assets and infrastructures, including urban renewal and increased energy and resource efficiency: all based on the fundamental goal of pursuing wellbeing and happiness for Aruba's citizens.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Center for International Development.
To read coverage of this seminar, click here.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 19 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
David Hemous
Harvard University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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October 20|Business & Government Seminar Series
David Moss
John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
In recent years, the study of regulatory capture has begun to turn a corner. An early focus on models of regulatory decision making is increasingly being complemented by fine-grained empirical work on regulation and the role of special-interest groups in the regulatory process. Drawing on a forthcoming volume, Preventing Capture: Special Interest Influence in Regulation and How to Limit It, the talk will highlight some of the implications of this new empirical orientation, including more accurate assessments of when capture does and does not occur and novel ideas about how capture might actually be prevented (or at least substantially limited) in practice. Examples will be provided from several regulatory areas, with a special focus on broadcast regulation.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 24 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Trevor Houser
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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October 27 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Arnulf Grubler
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
This event is being co-sponsored by the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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October 27 |Business & Government Seminar
Esko Aho
Executive Vice President for Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia
Prime Minister of Finland, 1991-1995
This event is being co-sponsored by the Business & Government PIC.
T-102, Cason Conference Room (WAPPP)
4-5:30PM
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP to jennifer_nash@harvard.edu
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October 28 |Business & Government Student Panel
This panel discussion of HKS students highlights the powerful role that regulators play in public and private policies. Hear from students who have shaped regulatory policy in Washington, DC and internationally. Hosted by Prof. Joseph Aldy, Regulatory Policy Program Chair.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1PM
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP to jennifer_nash@harvard.edu
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October 31 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Jody Freeman
Harvard Law School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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November 1|WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Charles Ferguson
President, Federation of American Scientists
This event is being co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
Tsai Auditorium (S010)
Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street
12:30-2PM
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November 2 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Wayne Gray
Clark University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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November 3 |Business & Government Seminar Series
David Scharfstein
Harvard Business School
This seminar will address the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced guarantees would have little effect on mortgage interest rates relative to unguaranteed mortgage credit during normal times, and would expose taxpayers to moral-hazard risk with little benefit. Privatization reduces, but does not eliminate, the government’s exposure to mortgage credit risk. It also leaves the economy and financial system exposed to destabilizing boom and bust cycles in mortgage credit. Based on this analysis, we argue that the main goal of housing finance reform should be financial stability, not the reduction of mortgage interest rates. To this end, we propose that the private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but that it should be carefully regulated. This will require new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. Moreover, we argue that while government guarantees of MBS have little value in normal times, they can be are valuable in periods of significant stress to the financial system, such as in the recent financial crisis. Thus, we propose the creation of a government-owned corporation that would play the role of “guarantor-of-last-resort” of newly-issued (not legacy) MBS during periods of crisis.
Click here for additional information.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45 - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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November 5 |The Harvard Leadership Conference
The Leadership Conference will consist of skills building sessions, speakers, and curated, thematic studio spaces which serve to initiate and foster an engaging and participatory experience for attendees through case studies, simulated negotiations, role play, etc. led by faculty and area experts. Topics include pressing issues around climate change, health equity, human rights, trans-nationalism, culture and society, among many others. Please register and plan on participating in the conference.
For additional details, or to register, click here.
Northwest Laboratory Spaces
10AM - 6PM
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November 7 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Rohini Pande
Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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November 9 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Jean-Pierre Landau
Second Deputy Governor of The Banque De France
External imbalances have been a source of concern for many years and are often seen as one important cause of the financial crisis. Reducing those imbalances is a priority for the G20. The discussion, however, is proving very difficult, with member countries mutually challenging their respective monetary and exchange rate policies. Such focus on short term policy measures may be misplaced and lead to unfavorable outcomes and lower growth. A different approach is needed, addressing the structural causes of global imbalances, with policy measures aimed at long term growth and, as a consequence, an acceptance that external imbalances are here to stay.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45 - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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November 9 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Matthew Harding
Stanford University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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November 10 |Panel
John Matuszak
Division Chief for Sustainable Development and Multilateral Affairs
U.S. State Department
Jorge Laguna Celis
Second Secretary
Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations
Felix Dodds
Executive Director
Stakeholder Forum
Moderated by Prof. Joseph Aldy
Chair, Regulatory Policy Program
Sponsored by the Energy & Environmental PIC, The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Regulatory Policy Program, Belfer Center Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12:30 - 2PM
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November 14 |Special Event: 19th Annual Doyukai Symposium
9AM - 5PM
| Seating available by reservation only. RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
This day-long symposium features opening remarks from HKS Dean David Ellwood and presentations by Harvard professors Anthony Saich, Joseph Nye, Ezra Vogel, Robert Glauber, and Roger Porter, as well as presentations from members of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai business association of Osaka, Japan. Topics to be discussed include security and economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region.
Session I ~ The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities in the China-US-Japan Trilateral Relationship
featuring addresses by Harvard Professors Anthony Saich, Ezra Vogel and Joseph Nye; and Mr. Akio Ogura, Chairman of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai Committee on National Security
Session II ~ Japan after 3.11 and the Problems for its Revival
featuring addresses by Mr. Senri Hagio, Kansai Keizai Doyukai Managing Director, and Mr. Shinichi Otake, Kansai Keizai Doyukai Co-Chairman
Session III ~ Business Strategy in Times of Uncertainty: The US Dollar, Monetary Policy and Elections
featuring addresses by Harvard Professors Robert Glauber and Roger Porter; and Mr. Koichi Kunisada and Mr. Naoki Hidaka, Co-Chairs of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai Overseas Exchange Committee
Participants are welcome to attend all or a portion of the day's session. The morning segment runs from 9-12:30 (Sessions I and II) and the afternoon segment runs from 2:30-4:30 (Session III).
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November 14 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Jason Bordoff
Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change, Council on Environmental Quality, and Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy
National Economic Council
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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November 14 |Annual Robert Glauber Lecture
Douglas Shulman
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
View this lecture here.
Harvard Kennedy School Forum
6 - 7PM
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November 15|Business & Government Seminar Series
Andy Wyckoff
Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
This presentation will look at how OECD’s unique form of high-level consensus-building has worked – or not worked – to help member nations develop pragmatic policies and to advance common understanding of social and economic change. It will consider how this work will be affected by a growing membership and “enhanced engagement” with large developing economies such as India and China.
Click here for additional information.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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November 16 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Click here for additional information.
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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November 16 |Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
Hunt Allcott
New York University
Littauer-382
4:10 - 5:30PM
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November 18 |Seminar
In December 1938, a young American stockbroker was arrested and charged with attempting to manipulate the bonds of the nearly bankrupt Philippine Railway Company. U.S. and Philippine politicians, Hollywood actors, and New York socialites turned out to be caught up in the scandal and the arrest, investigation, and trial became a tabloid sensation. Beyond the screaming headlines, however, was an important tale about the dangers of mixing the public and private sectors in finance as well as the challenges of policing modern, global markets. Seventy years later, the story has been completely forgotten, but it is multi-layered story worth reconstructing as regulators and markets continue to work through the enormous damage of the financial crisis.
Hal Lux
M-RCBG Senior Fellow
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
12:30 - 2PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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**CANCELLED** Will publicize a new date if/when it is scheduled
November 21 |Lecture
Jacob Lew
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Nye Conference Center (Taubman 5th floor)
4-5PM
Please RSVP to MRCBG@ksg.harvard.edu
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November 28 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Sue Tierney
Analysis Group
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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November 28 |Seminar--Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Dara O'Rourke
University of California, Berkeley
By simply downloading an app, consumers can access environmental, social,and health impacts of more than 140,000 products. What does this mean for market interactions? What are the implications for governance of global supply chains? GoodGuide Co-founder Dara O’Rourke will discuss the promise and peril of pushing the envelope in a new age of transparency.
This event is co-sponsored by the Transparency Policy Project and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 2000-South
4:10 - 5:30PM
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November 30 |Business & Government Seminar Series
Read Gina Raimondo's Truth in Numbers report here.
Read Sen. Liljenquist's PowerPoint presentation here.
Thomas J. Healey
HKS Senior Fellow
Gina Raimondo
General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island
Dan Liljenquist
Utah State Senator
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
11:45AM - 1PM
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December 5 |ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series
Richard Lazarus
Harvard Law School
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
12 - 1:30PM
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December 8 |Seminar
Michael R. Bromwich
Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
US Department of Interior
In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration launched the most aggressive and comprehensive reforms to ensure the safe development of offshore oil and gas regulation and oversight in U.S. history. Director Bromwich will discuss how the administration is working to enhance the operational safety and environmental protection of oil and gas drilling and production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
11:45 - 1PM
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