New leadership fellowship program established
A core of 13 faculty members is collaborating across disciplines to create a new Harvard fellowship program they say will harness a largely untapped universe of leadership skills. The Advanced...
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Obama names Summers director of National Economic Council President-elect Barack Obama announced Nov. 24 that he has selected Lawrence H. Summers as the next director of the National Economic Council....
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Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named...
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Money not cure-all for health care
Since money and health care are inextricably linked, reforms in the United States have tried to curb runaway medical inflation, while initiatives internationally have worked to provide funds that...
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Turning on the lights
Despite the economic strides that many of its nations have made in recent years, Africa is still, in a literal sense, a dark continent. No country there represents this more clearly than Liberia,...
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High-tech tools for change
When the electric light was invented, education reformers thought the school day would be transformed. After all, that new technology offered the possibility to educate students at any time of the day...
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Pondering health, at home and abroad
The world is in the midst of a health care transition in which the primary threat increasingly comes from chronic diseases rather than infectious ones, and where the ailments of the elderly are...
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Toward a more competitive U.S.
At an event at Harvard Business School (HBS) that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish U.S. economy — a move that may require a...
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Bad bridges to nowhere
Call it prescience, or fortuitous timing. Just hours after President Obama proposed corporate tax reform in exchange for congressional support of a $302 billion transportation bill to pay for badly...
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Three ways to innovate in a stagnant environment
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discussed innovation, advanced leadership, and how to make change in an inflexible organization in the HBS podcast series “The Business.”...
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Reconnecting on education
It’s no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared...
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Shifting careers to drive change
Last year, Winifred White Neisser was thinking about a career change when the longtime television executive heard about a Harvard program that could help her chart a new path. Neisser enrolled in the...
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The career afterlife
Some people dream of endless golf games when their career comes to a close, but the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) has a different vision. Instead of considering retirement an end point,...
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Our crumbling infrastructure
No matter how big the issue — national security, health care, gun rights — it’s been nearly impossible for Washington lawmakers to find common ground given the deep rancor and partisan division among...
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Leadership program lets top execs take it to the streets
Leadership isn’t limited — and after conquering their own domains, today’s innovators want to share. Those are the motivating ideas behind the Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI), a new “third stage”...
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Friends, colleagues remember Charles Ogletree
A beloved Harvard Law professor. An early champion for slavery reparations. A voice for gender equality. A legendary public defender. A civil rights scholar. A lawyer for indigent clients. A lead...
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