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...only marine currently in the fellows program, Lieutenant Colonel Michael D. Robinson, has served all over the world, from the Balkans to Mosul, Iraq to New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the post-Katrina relief efforts there. He notes that the educational value of having officers at HKS is a two-way street. “I think it’s a great program. A lot of professors have studied things their whole life but we help educate them also to some degree,” he says. “As Security Fellows we’re able...
Power’s colleagues at HKS lauded her appointment, citing her foreign policy and academic credentials as key reasons she will be able to make a lasting contribution in the administration...
...composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project.” The CPL also recently published its annual “National Leadership Index,” which is compiled by HKS Professor Todd L. Pittinsky from public opinion surveys. The results this year revealed the most negative attitudes since the project began in 2005. Respondents rated their confidence level either the same or lower in every one of the 13 leadership sectors, which range from military to education to business. Gergen...
...entire presidency,” chimed in Robert Dugger, former policy director for the American Bankers Association. The panel, entitled “Financial Re-Regulation: The Economics and the Politics,” was moderated by Richard Parker, a senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center and a HKS lecturer. Former U.S. Senate Staff Attorney Jack Blum—who has worked on bank and securities firm compliance, international financial crime, money laundering, and offshore tax evasion—rounded out the panel. The panel spent much of the time addressing the root causes of the economic crisis, and generally...
...level can come from cutting emissions in personal residences. “The problem is connecting [individual] behaviors to the implications of this problem [of climate change] that they all admit is there,” Clark said. Robert N. Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program at HKS, presented an opposing view, arguing that “voluntary initiatve and reliance on unilateral action is...insignificant.” Stavins said that a solution founded on market-based instruments and government regulation, in which institutions and businesses focus on the environmental impact of their products, would be more...