The Future of the GOP: Political Engagement – The Business Viewpoint
Guests:Andy Abboud, Vice President, Government Relations, Las
Vegas SandsBill Miller, Senior Vice President, Business
Roundtable Corporate lobbying groups play an increasingly active role
each...
4/2 CPL Invite: All About Networking - A Spring 2013 Lunch Conversation with Theresa Ellis
All About Networking A Spring 2013 Lunch Conversationled by Theresa Ellis, Gleitsman Visiting Practitioner and
Founder of Common Impact Have you ever wondered...
Location:
Darman Seminar Room (T-135), Center for Public Leadership, HKS
Gaining Separation: Assessing the Obama and Romney Advertising Strategies
This session, Elizabeth Wilner, an expert on political
advertisement time-buying and research, will give a presentation
that demonstrates how the Obama campaign...
Behind the Numbers: How Polling Helped Shape the Obama
Campaign’s Winning Strategy
Guest: Joel Benenson, Lead Pollster for President Obama's Campaign
and Founding...
Pope Francis: Does A New Pope Mean Change?
A panel conversation with:John CarrInstitute of Politics Fellow (Fall
'12)
Executive Director, Department of Justice,...
Accelerate the Accelerators! Are There Alternatives to Nuclear Research Reactors?
Speaker: David Nusbaum, Research Fellow, Project on Managing
the Atom/International Security Program Coffee and tea provided. Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6015/ Sponsored by Project...
"China's New Leadership and the Prospects for Economic and Political Reform," a Belfer Center Director's Lunch
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/rudd.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will
host a Director's Lunch with...
Neighborhood Recovery Efforts in New Orleans: A Book Talk by Tom Wooten
A book about collective resilience, "We Shall Not Be Moved" tells
the stories of five New Orleans neighborhoods—Broadmoor,
Hollygrove, Lakeview, the Lower...
"Fighting Cultural Suppression in Guatemala through Preservation of Mayan Language in Community Radio"
"Fighting Cultural Suppression in Guatemala through
Preservation of Mayan Language in Community Radio." Ava Berinstein and Marc Camp will be discussing the...
The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy
Online politics is neither limited to "clicktivism" nor comprised
of "organizing without organizations." In Dave Karpf's new book, he
presents evidence that...
***THIS FORUM EVENT IS BY LOTTERY*** A panel conversation withAMBASSADOR JON HUNTSMANIOP Heffernan Visiting Fellow, Spring 2013US Ambassador to China, 2009-11Governor...
Condoning Stereotyping: How Awareness of Stereotyping Prevalence Impacts Stereotype Expression in Negotiations and Beyond
Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Associate Professor of Business
Administration, University of Virginia, Darden School of
Business
The deleterious effects of stereotyping on individual and group
outcomes...
1957: The Origins of European Union & Lessons for Today
Lucas Kello, Research Fellow, International Security
Program/Science, Technology, & Public Policy Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar announcement: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6011/ Sponsored by the...
Civil and Civic Engagement: Working Together Toward A Better Community - The Power of Urban and Suburban Mechanics
Guest: Rob Consalvo, City Councilor (Hyde
Park) A discussion about community engagement in our neighborhoods
and how person to person involvement makes for...
In a conversation moderated by Future of Diplomacy Project/India
& South Asia Program Faculty Director, R. Nicholas Burns,
Ambassadors Rabbani and Warlick...
THIS IS A TICKETED CONFERENCE. YOU CAN REGISTER FOR TICKETS HERE:
http://afghanistanconference.com/
The “Future of Afghanistan” conference, co-sponsored by the
Harvard Kennedy School’s...
Blurring Boundaries: Human Rights in Armed Conflicts
Harvard Law School’s National Security Journal, Milbank Tweed Fund,
and National Security Law Association, along with HKS National
Security Program, are co-sponsoring...
Reflections on Educational and International Leadership - A Roundtable Discussion with Allan Goodman
Reflections on Educational and International Leadership: A
Roundtable Discussion with Allan Goodman On Friday, April 5th,
Allan Goodman, President and CEO of...
Location:
Longfellow 208, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions, Reality and Options," a Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Dr. Chung Mong Joon
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/chung.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will
host a Director's Lunch with...
Asylum seekers or 'infiltrators'? The treatment of Sudanese and Eritreans in Israel
Please join us for "Asylum seekers or 'infiltrators'? The
treatment of Sudanese and Eritreans in Israel," a presentation by
Reuven Ziegler, lecturer,...
Is America Working? What Business and Government Can Do
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government 30th
Anniversary Forum Panel with Lawrence SummersCharles W. Eliot University Professor and M-RCBG Director,
Harvard Kennedy...
Kirsten Roberts presents "Implementing Human Rights Education through Policy and Practice: The example of the Irish Human Rig
Kirsten Roberts, Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School,
will discuss "Implementing Human Rights Education through
Policy and Practice: The example of the...
Location:
Eliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Building, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"The Current Outlook for the U.S. Economy," a Belfer Center Director's Seminar with Martin Feldstein
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/feldstein.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will
host a Director's Seminar with...
Public Education in Massachusetts: A Vision for the Future
Matthew Malone, Massachusetts Secretary of
EducationMassachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew Malone was
appointed in January of 2013. During his brief tenure, the...
Location:
Center for Government and International Studies- Room South 153, 1730 Cambr
Black Women Mobilizing Intersectionality in Urban Land Rights Struggles in Brazil
Keisha-Khan Perry, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies,
Brown University
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora rarely are black
women, especially poor black...
Speaker: Nussaibah Younis, research fellow, International
Security Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6022/i Sponsored by the International Security Program...
SOUTH ASIA WEEK: Low Cost, High-impact Innovative Solutions For the Bottom 2 Billion
Ashok Gadgil, Division Director, and Faculty Senior Scientist,
Environmental Energy Technologies Division, LBNL; Andrew and
Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair of...
Civil and Civic Engagement: Building Better Communities
Grassroots Engagement in the Political Process and
Elections
We will be talking about presidential elections and the changing
dynamics of grassroots...
Impact Investing: Shaping an Industry by Tackling Systemic Barriers. Frontline with Faculty Series.
This session will focus on the field building and market building
activities of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and allied
organizations....
Location:
Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School
Panel Discussion: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights Indigenous Peoples
"The United Nations Declaration on the Rights Indigenous
Peoples," a panel discussion featuring Lisa Balk King, Charlie
Clements and Theodore MacDonald....
CID Speaker Series Featuring: Sudhir Vadaketh, MPP '05
"The slow road from authoritarianism to democracy: Where are
Malaysia and Singapore?" For decades, the vast majority of
Malaysians and Singaporeans appeared...
"The Future of Venezuela: Oil and Politics," a Belfer Center Director's Seminar with Dr. Francisco Monaldi
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/monaldi.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a
Director's Lunch with Dr. Francisco Monaldi, Robert...
Predictions, Proclamations and
Punditry
A lively, bipartisan debate about future election cycles from some
of America’s top strategists. Guests:Steve McMahon, Democratic Strategist and MSNBC
Contributor
Jim...
Gary Gensler on Swaps Market Reform: Increasing Transparency and Lowering Risk
This seminar will be given by Gary Gensler, Chairman, U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Lunch will be served. Please
RSVP to mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu...
University Endowments and Universal Owners: The Sustainability Challenge
This session puts the controversies of some university endowments
into the larger context of existing and emerging U.S. and global
corporate governance...
Conversation with Marta Luchia Ramirez, Senator and Presidential
Candidate, Colombia. Sen. Ramirez is the official candidate to the
Presidency of Colombia representing...
In his newly published Recognizing Public Value, Mark Moore focuses
on helping public managers develop and use performance measurement
and management systems...
Facts and Futures: Expertise Between Science and Law
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 9:00AM-5:00PM, HLS Bureaucratic Logics of
Expertise I Andrew Lang, Law, LSE The Taken-for-Grantedness of
Economic Facts [provisional title]...
Location:
Harvard Law School, WCC B010, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue (Day 1) and HUCE Se
Anyone Can Be a Wikipedian: Lessons for Future Contributors in Public Policy, Digital Communications Workshop
Anyone can be a Wikipedian: Lessons for future contributors in
public policy Have you ever consulted Wikipedia to better understand
something? Have you...
Thriving Despite Negative Stereotypes: How Ingroup Experts and Peers Act as Social Vaccines to Inoculate Women's Self-concept
Nilanjana Dasgupta, Associate Professor, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Dasgupta’s research focuses on implicit bias and the self-concept,
with special emphasis on ways...
Confronting the Reality of a Rising Nuclear-armed China
Speaker: David Kelley, research fellow, International Security
Program/Project on Managing the Atom Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6037/ Sponsored by the...
Speaker: Neile L. Miller, Acting Administrator, National
Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6055/ Sponsored...
A discussion with senior Iraqi and American Policymakers
Stephen J. Hadley
National Security Advisor, President George W. Bush
(2004-2009)
Hanan Al-Fatlawi
Member of Parliament, Republic...
The documentary "American Promise" is a coming-of-age film that
brings to life research-based themes on black male achievement and
identity development. The...
Location:
Askwith Lecture Hall, Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CID Speaker Series Featuring: Christina Riechers, MPA/ID '12
Christina Riechers, MPA/ID ’12, Director of Strategic Initiatives,
Evidence Action / Dispensers for Safe Water (formerly an initiative
of Innovations for Poverty...
"Strengthening Civil-Military Relations" a Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Michele Flournoy
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/flournoy.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will
host a Director's Lunch with...
Speaker: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear and High-energy
Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6058/ Sponsored by Project on...
Business and Vision in Today’s World: A leadership conversation with Ofra Strauss
RSVP required.Ofra Strauss is one of Israel’s business leaders, serving as
Chairperson of the Board of Strauss Group. Strauss Group,
Israel’s second-largest...
Location:
Darman Room, Center for Public Leadership, Taubman Buidling, 1st Floor
Faculty advisors are encouraged to nominate those outstanding
research papers (PAE, SYPA, etc.) whose analysis of an organization
or topic is focused...
Location:
Nominations submitted by email to megan_farwell@hks.harvard.edu
Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development
Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Department of
International Development, University of...
Are foundations “total scandals” in the words of Judge Richard
Posner? Foundations are rarely held under normal electoral or
market accountability standards,...
Turning the Corner: Strategic and Budgetary Choices for U.S. Defense
Turning the Corner: Strategic and Budgetary Choices for U.S.
Defense
A public address byAshton B. Carter
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
Moderated byGraham...
The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Speaker: Wilfred Wan, research fellow, Project on Managing the
Atom/International Security Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6059/ Sponsored by Project...
Is a New Progressive Movement Upon Us?: Lessons from a Century of Social Justice Leadership, a lecture by author Peter Dreier
Please join us for an insightful and thought-provoking lecture
at which Peter Dreier, distinguished educator, activist and author,
will explain why the...
Female Managers and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Private Sector Firms
Matt Huffman, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director,
Demographic and Social Analysis (DASA) Program, University of
California, Irvine
Although a great deal of empirical...
Better Than The Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation
Speaker: Kelly M. Greenhill, research fellow, International
Security Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6056/ Sponsored by the International Security Program...
Global Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Programs—National and Global Efforts and Challenges
Speaker: Andrew C. Weber, Secretary of Defense for Nuclear,
Chemical, & Biological Defense Programs Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6068/ Sponsored...
What Should Foreign Policy Makers Learn (or not) From History?
The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy invites you to our April
25 seminar, featuring: -Michael Ignatieff, Professor of Practice,
Harvard Kennedy...
Designing International NGO Governance. Frontline with Faculty Series.
Alnoor Ebrahim will speak on the challenges of designing the
governance structures of international NGOs engaged in policy
advocacy. He will discuss...
Location:
Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School
"The Economic Development of Latin America Since Independence""
José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, SIPA, Columbia University José
Antonio Ocampo is Professor, Director of...
Implementing PerformanceStat: Lessons From the Field
Featuring Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville; John Mattingly,
former commissioner of the New York City Administration for
Children’s Services; and Beth Blauer,...
China's cities have reportedly been driving the country's
decades-long economic miracle. But behind this veneer of economic
stability lies a system of...
Building Capacity for Scientific and Technological Catch-Up in Developing Countries: The Role of The World Academy of Science
Please join Professor Romain Murenzi, Executive Director of TWAS,
for a public lecture. Moderators: Calestous Juma and Venky
Narayanamurti Science, technology, and...