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Public Leadership Credential
Public Leadership Credential
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Ideas @ HKS
Tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King honored at Harvard Kennedy School
King described the “Battle of the Sexes” and shared what President Obama told her in the Oval Office at a Harvard Kennedy School event.
Harvard students got the chance to meet their hometown mayor—or maybe their potential employers—at a unique campus reception
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative brings 45 mayors from 16 countries to the Harvard Kennedy School campus to discuss initiatives with faculty, share ideas, and talk to constituents.
After decades of nuclear restraint, new challenges loom
Harvard Kennedy School scholars discuss nonproliferations at the first Carnesale Convening, organized by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
What Louisiana v. Callais Means for the Voting Rights Act
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Maya Sen and PhD student Jack Deschler discuss how a new Supreme Court ruling weakens key protections in the Voting Rights Act.
Zanny Minton Beddoes has led The Economist since 2015, when she became the first woman to hold the editor-in-chief position in the publication's more than 180-year history.
