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The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
A member of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, Eli Langley ’21 is the first tribal citizen to use Koasati, the language of the Coushatta people, to fulfill the second language requirement at Harvard.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/vtp
Jason Newton and Rachel Traughber sit down with Latanya Sweeney, Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School, to talk about issues surrounding the increased use of data and algorithms in policing and sentencing.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/f43
Immunotherapy – treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to help fight disease – has groundbreaking and life-saving implications. In an effort to make immunotherapy more effective, Wyss Institute researches are developing new immuno-materials, which help modulate immune cells to treat or diagnose disease. In this episode of Disruptive, Dave Mooney, Wyss Core Faculty member; Kai Wucherpfennig, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cancer and Immunology and Virology department chair; and Aileen Li, Wyss Institute and Mooney Lab postdoctoral fellow, discuss their collaboration developing an injectable cancer vaccine. Guests also discuss other immuno-material applications, which could treat infections, diabetes, and addiction.
Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2020/02/26124017/Ep011_Disruptive_Immuno-Materials.pdf
There are roughly 120,000 people in the United States on waiting lists for live-saving organ transplants, with only about 30,000 transplants happening every year. To address this great challenge of organ shortages, a team at the Wyss Institute led by Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D., is developing a method for 3D bioprinting organ tissues with requisite vasculature for eventual organ transplant. In this episode of Disruptive, Jennifer Lewis is joined by Wyss Institute Research Associate Mark Skylar-Scott, Ph.D., and former Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Kimberly Homan, Ph.D., to talk about the current status of their work, challenges they face, and the next steps in their path to bioprint human organs.
Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2020/02/26123918/Ep015_Disruptive_3DBioprinting.pdf
In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber and Staff Scientist Charles Reilly discuss their process creating The Beginning, a short film inspired by Star Wars, to better communicate science to the public…and how they made a scientific discovery along the way. To make The Beginning, film industry visual effects and animation tools were used to merge scientific data from different disciplines, which enabled their team to create more accurate depictions and predictions of the natural world than what could otherwise be achieved. The team is now exploring how to use this approach to rational drug design and understanding the molecular mechanisms of disease.
Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2017/12/19122956/Ep011_Disruptive_Art_Advances_Science.pdf
In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member David Walt discusses his lessons learned from founding successful biotech companies and how he incorporates translation-minded thinking early on into his current diagnostic research in his labs at the Wyss Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Walt and collaborators are inventing new diagnostic tools to allow clinicians to better understand and treat some of the most pressing healthcare problems.
Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2019/08/01103044/Ep014_Disruptive_Accelerating_Diagnostics.pdf
Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these days. Increasingly, her clients tell her, they are facing a serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, are leaving these executives feeling like they are getting in their own way.
This chorus of executive worries led Su to write her new book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self. Those principles are what she calls her five Ps: Purpose, process, people, presence and peace. And in this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Su about how she developed those principles—and why real improvement requires a holistic approach, not just a lifestyle hack. Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7241
This seminar, Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of Corporate Sustainability Ratings, was given by Florian Berg, Research Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management, on November 7, 2019 as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Berg_11.7.19_transcript.pdf
"I think some of the most exciting areas have been where there are no guideposts,” says Martha Shenton of Brigham and Women's Hospital. In this podcast, Shenton reflects on her career in neuroimaging, discusses her research looking at schizophrenia, and gives advice to aspiring researchers.
Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/39RfhMT
Nearly 40,000 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. in 2017 — the most in 20 years. And while mass shootings grab headlines, they account for a small part of gun-related murders in the country. Urban gun violence remains a tremendous — and too often overlooked — burden on underserved communities. And suicides persist as accounting for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. As the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting approached, this Forum event examined contrasting facets of gun violence in America. Seeking to move the discussion past partisan debates, panelists grappled with ways to prevent gun violence in the most impacted communities and offer key, actionable steps that we can take now to reduce gun violence in the U.S.
This Forum event was presented jointly with HuffPost on December 11, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Read the transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/curbing-gun-violence/
In the last decade, Americans’ relationship with cannabis has transformed: today, dozens of states have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use and American farmers can grow hemp on an industrial scale. Meanwhile, shoppers can find cannabidiol (CBD), which is derived from cannabis but does not produce a “high” like marijuana, in everything from oils to vapes, chocolate bars, cosmetics—even dog treats. Some say CBD can relieve stress, pain, anxiety, and more, with no side effects. But the evidence for many of these claims is limited, and state and federal laws around the sale of CBD are still evolving. Drawing on a newly-released poll by POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School, this Forum examined public attitudes toward CBD products and recreational marijuana. Panelists examined how research studies of both recreational and medical marijuana offer insights into the current debate. They also discussed the current state of policy and research regarding recreational marijuana in particular, and consider various solutions that have emerged to understand and regulate these rapidly growing industries.
This Forum event was presented jointly with POLITICO on December 3, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: http://bit.ly/2r40mx5
Hammered by unprecedented natural disasters, parts of the United States have coped with raging wildfires, catastrophic hurricanes, dangerous heat levels, blizzards and floods. In addition, climate change has introduced new risks and exacerbated existing problems, according to the National Climate Assessment.
This Forum event convened a dynamic panel of former governors, who will share their unique insights into the challenges of leadership and natural disasters. What does it take to prepare, respond and rebuild? What roles do the public, local and state officials and emergency responders play? What is the intersection between economies and disasters? And what climate change considerations need to be understood?
This Forum event was presented jointly with Reuters on November 14, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: http://bit.ly/34y7cso
Speaker: Adam Lawrence Dyer, Lead Minister of First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, Nov. 22, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2LBpm5O Program: bit.ly/2Xu55nx
KMarie Tejeda MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School; Seminarian, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Dec. 6, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2RCj8Xg Program: bit.ly/2DHf2Vu
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Dec. 8, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2spfyFf Program: bit.ly/2rw5V80
Wendy Sherman, professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, joined the Voices in Leadership program on October 30, 2019. Ambassador Sherman spoke about being a woman in leadership, public health, and the lessons learned throughout her journey with Professor of Health Economics and Policy Meredith Rosenthal.
Dr. Fadlo Khuri. Khuri is the 16th president of the American University of Beirut and professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) at the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. Prior, he was professor and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine where he held the Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. Moderated by Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership.
Can robots ever learn to feel? Our ability to perform delicate tasks, like giving a gentle hug or picking a piece of fruit, is something that robots can't yet mimic. Ryan Truby, an alum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has created bio-inspired soft robots that can squish, stretch, and feel their way around the world - and they have the potential to change how we understand robotics. Find the transcripts at: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/squish-goes-robot
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Dec. 1, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2OWvHLz Program:bit.ly/2PhhjMF
Speaker: Deborah Forger, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jewish Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Dec. 5, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2Yip6ht Program: bit.ly/2DHf2Vu
Speaker: Sienna Lies ’00, Director, College Reunions, Harvard Alumni Affairs & Development, Dec. 4, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/362tT9p Program: bit.ly/2DHf2Vu
Speaker: Daniel Smith MDiv '99, Senior Minister, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational(UCC); Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, Dec. 3, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/364HHAl Program: bit.ly/2DHf2Vu
Speaker: Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health; Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) Dec. 2, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/388l8MW Program: bit.ly/2DHf2Vu
In South Africa, about 40% of the population living with HIV are not in care," says Ingrid Katz, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Katz discusses her research on HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa, the importance of feedback from target populations, and the future of HIV research.
Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/2Rn6tr6
Monica Dodi on diversity as a competitive advantage for VCs. Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7201
CEO Kim Lopdrup on what it takes to turn around an iconic brand—and why sustainability is mission critical for the seafood giant. Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7167
From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, your sense of sight helps you navigate and interact with the world. But how do our brains understand what our eyes are telling us? And how do we know what's surrounding us, where we can move, and what objects are within reach? Emilie Josephs, a PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is discovering that the way our brain processes vision is even more complex than scientists initially thought.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/its-all-within-reach
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo: Emily Crowell
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Special thanks to Emilie Josephs and Phil Lewis, who voiced our brain. Emilie Josephs’ research is supported by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program.
On Thursday, November 21st, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Harvard Kennedy School Black Student Union hosted a discussion about the results from the 6th annual "Power of the Sister Vote” survey and how the priorities of Black women voters may shape key dimensions of the 2020 presidential race.
Panelists included: Melanie L. Campbell, President & CEO Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable
DeJuana Thompson, Creator of “Woke Vote” and Partner, Think Rubix
Kirsten West Savali, Senior Editor News & Politics at Essence
Kimberlyn Leary, Moderator, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management & Enabling Change Program Director, DrPH Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School | Executive Director of the Center of Excellence in Women’s Mental Health, McLean Hospital
Find a transcription of this event online here: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/getting-out-intersectional-vote-what-do-black-women-voters-want?#audiorecording
From 'I Like Ike' to MAGA hats, branding and politics have gone hand in hand, selling ideas, ideals and candidates. Political Brands, the new book from Ciara (Chara) Torres-Spelliscy, is a unique exploration of the legal framework for the use of commercial branding and advertising techniques in presidential political campaigns, as well as the impact of politics on commercial brands.
On October 30, the Ash Center hosted Spelliscy, a Professor of Law at Stetson University, for a discussion of her latest book. The talk was moderated by Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center.
A transcription of this event can be found here: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-ciara-torres-spelliscy-author-political-brands?#audiorecording
Six years ago, the Transparency for Development (T4D) project sought to uncover new and unique evidence on the role of community-led transparency and accountability in improving health outcomes – and how and why we see mixed evidence when these interventions are implemented in the real world. Based on large-scale mixed methods research utilizing quantitative and qualitative approaches in two countries (Indonesia and Tanzania) and small innovative pilots in three additional countries (Ghana, Malawi, and Sierra Leone), the project now has a lot more information about how these popular approaches to citizen engagement and participation work – and ways in which they can fail to reach their goals.
On Wednesday, September 25th the T4D team shared results – including the good, the bad, and the unclear – from this one-of-a-kind research project and discussed what is needed next in the field.
The conversation included principal investigators from the Transparency for Development project:
Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS Stephen Kosack, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS Jessica Creighton, Assistant Director
Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at HKS, moderated.
A transcript of this talk is available online here: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/when-where-and-how-does-transparency-and-accountability-improve-health?#audiorecording
Speaker: Grace Killian MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School; Seminarian, The Memorial Church of Harvard University Nov. 21, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/3zIdFRK Program: bit.ly/2Xu55nx
While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character are not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia and in the eyes of practitioners. In his new book, "Public Management as a Design-Oriented, Professional, Discipline,” Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline.
On Tuesday, October 15th, Barzelay, a Professor of Public Management at the London School of Economics, presented his new book at the Ash Center. He was joined by Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School.
A transcript of this talk is available online here: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-michael-barzelay-author-public-management-design-oriented-professional?
Speaker: Euan Tait, Librettist, Retreat Leader, Nov. 15, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2rQRZVD Program: bit.ly/2Qd0xk4
When China started promoting its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Europe was always going to be a key destination for both the "Belt" and the "Maritime Road" with an open goal of targeting the European consumer market. While Beijing has tried to promote its initiative across Europe, the BRI concept remains unclear to a lot of Europeans. In addition, it has been hard to differentiate between Chinese foreign direct investments (with a total amount of EUR 17.3 billion in 2018, mainly in the UK, Germany and France) and BRI-related projects, which have been scarce in the European Union - although the situation is quite different in the Balkans just outside the EU. Meanwhile, the EU has launched its own connectivity strategy, which makes Chinese objectives of offering to build infrastructures to European countries ever more challenging.
On Tuesday, October 8, Philippe Le Corre, Research Associate, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, led a discussion about the impact and perceptions of the BRI in Europe. Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated.
A transcript of this talk is available online here: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-impact-and-perceptions-europe
In "The Smart Enough City," Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself.
On Tuesday, October 29th, Green joined the Ash Center for a discussion of his new book. Kathy Pham, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, served as a respondent. Stephen Goldsmith, the Director of the Ash Center's Government Innovations Program, moderated.
A transcript of this talk is available online here: https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/smart_enough_city_transcription.pdf
Speaker: Rita Powell, Episcopal Chaplain at Harvard University, Nov. 20, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/37qoxpJ Program: bit.ly/2Xu55nx
Speaker: Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music; Graduate Advisor in Theory/Asst. DUS Theory, Harvard University, Nov. 19, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2r5vZ9e Program: bit.ly/2Xu55nx
Speaker: Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics and Departmental Chair, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Nov. 18, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2pxU0Wa Program: bit.ly/2Xu55nx
The Rev. Cornell William Brooks, Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice and Director of William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Nov. 17, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2rfNVOn Program: bit.ly/2qv88zS
Speaker: LaTosha Brown, CoFounder of Black Voters Matter Fund, IOP Resident Fellow, Nov. 14, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2KBusyP Program: bit.ly/2Qd0xk4
Speaker: Jarred Batchelor-Hamilton MDiv II, Harvard Divinity School, Nov. 13, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/33Kypsv Program: bit.ly/2Qd0xk4
Speaker: Getzel Davis, Harvard Chaplain; Student Conservative Minyan Advisor and Director of Graduate Programming, Harvard Hillel, Nov. 12, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2NIQRvT Program: bit.ly/2Qd0xk
Speaker: Thomas Todd, CDR. CHC. U.S. Navy (Retired) Nov. 11, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2QbLtD9 Program: bit.ly/2Qd0xk4
The Rev. Dr. Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School; Veteran, U.S. Navy, Sunday sermon Nov. 10, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2CKubF5 Program: bit.ly/32Ni6tl
Speaker: Speaker: Amitai Abouzaglo '20, Harvard College, Nov. 4, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2PR5ZJ0 Program: bit.ly/2Nj7s9r
Speaker: Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, Nov. 7, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/32mQYkJ Program: bit.ly/2Nj7s9r
Speaker: David Gergen JD '67, Founding Director, Center for Public Leadership; Professor of Public Service, Harvard Kennedy School, Nov. 8, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/34HTZxB Program: bit.ly/2Nj7s9r
Speaker: Nazneen Cooper, Assistant Dean of Campus Design and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Nov. 6, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2K0sYh3 Program: bit.ly/2Nj7s9r
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Nov. 3, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/32qipKL Program: bit.ly/2NpIHIJ
Speaker: Diana Xochitl Munn, Director of Public Programs, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Nov. 1, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2CfnDOH Program: bit.ly/2Jvm5nA
Speaker: Margaret Rennix PhD ’15, Preceptor, Expository Writing, Harvard College Writing Program, Oct. 30, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2Jyiwxd Program: bit.ly/2Jvm5nA
The Rev. Kaji Douša, Senior Pastor, Park Avenue Christian Church, New York City, Sunday sermon Oct. 27, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2JAGV51 Program: bit.ly/2PtIzcB
Speaker: David von Behren, Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster, the Memorial Church of Harvard University, Oct. 31, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/36iI4It Program: bit.ly/2Jvm5nA
Speaker: Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi, Orisha high priestess and Key Volunteer, The Adunni Olorisha Trust, Oct. 29, 2019. Program: bit.ly/2Jvm5nA Transcript: https://hrvd.me/m7t
Speaker: Jaime Drucker MDiv ’19, Student Activities Director, Harvard Hillel; Proctor, Member of the Board of Freshman Advisers, Oct. 28, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/36eA62Y Program: bit.ly/2Jvm5nA
Speaker: Shane Snowdon MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School; Founder of the Crash Project, Oct. 25, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/340Vy9v Program: bit.ly/2WaMo81
Speaker: Tim McCarthy ’93, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education; Core Faculty/Program Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Oct. 24, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/31MvOfE Program: bit.ly/2WaMo81
Speaker: Lara Glass, Student Program Fellow, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Oct. 23, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2Njw00X Program: bit.ly/2WaMo81
Speaker: Sushma Raman, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School, Oct. 22, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/31DTFOH Program: bit.ly/2WaMo81
Speaker: David C. King, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Oct. 21, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2oRK9Ky Program: bit.ly/2WaMo81
The Rev. Dr. Gerald “Jay” Williams, Lead Pastor, Union Church, Boston., Sunday sermon Oct. 20, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/31FoOkT Program: bit.ly/31BVhbK
How the CEO of a Chicago charter school network picked up the pieces after a leadership crisis
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7154
Speaker: Leon Welch ALB ’16, Purchasing Assistant, Harvard University Health Services, Oct. 17, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2P5T31o Program: bit.ly/35CIGIt
Speaker: Barbara Nobles Crawford, CEO at Nobles Crawford & Partners, Senior Leadership & Organization Development Consultant, Harvard University, Oct. 16, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2OSPPyn Program: bit.ly/35CIGIt
Speaker: Speaker: Shelly Lowe, Executive Director, Harvard University Native American Program, Oct. 15, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2MPCxQK Program: bit.ly/35CIGIt
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Oct. 13, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2IVLQNw Program:bit.ly/33yv4Mz
Antibiotics are a pillar of modern medicine. They have saved millions of lives. But as the use of antibiotics has increased, so has the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have adapted to survive most, or all, of today’s antibiotics. The CDC reports that two million people are infected with drug-resistant bacteria every year in the United States, and the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimated that, around the world, 700,000 people die of such infections annually. That number stands to increase: the Review predicts that, by 2050, drug resistance could be responsible for 10 million deaths a year. And while these numbers are dominated by bacterial infections, fungal infections like Candida auris are also a threat, especially to vulnerable patients in hospitals and nursing homes.
Despite drug resistance growing, the development of new antibiotics has slowed. How can policymakers help accelerate the pace of new drug development, and how can all of us—doctors, hospitals, and patients, as well as the agricultural sector—be better stewards of existing drugs? Forum panelists examined the scope of this looming crisis and look at how changes in policy and practice can help us stay one step ahead of these superbugs.
Part of the The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with NBC News Digital on October 11, 2019.
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/drug-resistant-infections/
Speaker: Brother John, Taizé Community, Oct. 18, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2o2hJgo Program: bit.ly/35CIGIt
Much of the attention around disaster leadership goes to response. However, a lot of what happens in response is shaped by the policy choices in mitigation, preparedness, and recovery. Alice Hill, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where she focuses on potentially catastrophic global events such as climate change, speaks with us about leading resilience from a policy standpoint.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/6gi
This seminar was given by Ndidi Nwuneli, co-founder of AACE Foods and Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting. She is a former senior fellow at M-RCBG. This seminar was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government seminar series and was also held on World Food Day, October 15, 2019.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Nourishing%20Africa%20Leapfrogging%20Through%20Innovation%20and%20Technology.pdf
A conversation with President and CEO Mary Powell of Green Mountain Power. Interviewed by Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 13th Administrator of EPA.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/leadership-studio/what-ceos-say/mary-powell/
Speaker: Edward Jones, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Oct. 11, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2MuyDwi Program: bit.ly/358vsTD
Speaker: Aidan Stoddart '21, Harvard College, Oct. 7, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2OoXiVH Program: bit.ly/358vsTD
Jim Wallis, Founder, President, and Editor-in-Chief of Sojourners, Oct. 6, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/31VpVxK Bulletin: bit.ly/3109ZZA
Speaker: Makeda Djata Best PhD ’10, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Oct. 10, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/322HjAt Program: bit.ly/358vsTD
Speaker: David Diaz MDiv II, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Fellow, BGLTQ Office, Oct. 9, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2Mva3vd Program: bit.ly/358vsTD
Speaker: Elizabeth Propst ’22, Harvard College, Oct. 8, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/329V6VS Program: bit.ly/358vsTD
Peter Shumlin, former Governor of Vermont (2011-2017), joined the Voices in Leadership program on September 25, 2019. Governor Shumlin spoke about a variety of public health and governance topics with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor Ben Sommers.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/peter-shumlin-81st-governor-of-vermont-and-menschel-senior-leadership-fellow/
Speaker: Dehlia Umunna, Clinical Professor of Law; Special Adviser to the Dean; Faculty Director, CJI, Harvard Law School, Oct. 2, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2n1yAzt Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Speaker: Alicia Izharuddin, Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam; Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate 2019–20, Oct. 4, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/338oSux Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Speaker: Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School., Oct. 3, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2V8fV1u Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Imam Dr. Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Muslim Chaplain to Harvard University, Sept. 29, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2InrgWg Bulletin: bit.ly/3338qvg
Speaker: Dehlia Umunna, Clinical Professor of Law; Special Adviser to the Dean; Faculty Director, CJI, Harvard Law School, Oct. 2, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2n1yAzt Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Speaker: Wendy Cadge, Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at Brandeis University, Oct. 1, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2n2tHWQ Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Speaker: Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Sept. 30, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2oyKRvs Program: bit.ly/2nS52Ey
Space entrepreneur and investor Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux on how to search the skies for profits
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7144
The Rev. Dr. Braxton D. Shelley, Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute; Assistant Professor of Music in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sunday sermon, Sept. 22, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2lSRoQW Bulletin: bit.ly/2mryRLg
Speaker: Grace Killian MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School; Seminarian, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sept. 27 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lHdWnz Program: bit.ly/2kF2DMa
Sally Hammel MDiv II, Harvard Divinity School; Seminarian, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sept. 26 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lA2B8T Program: bit.ly/2kF2DMa
KMarie Tejeda MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School; Seminarian, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sept. 25 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lA2B8T Program: bit.ly/2kF2DMa
Teju Cole, Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, Harvard English Department, Sept. 24 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lrLh5M Program: bit.ly/2kF2DMa
Katherine Schofield, Interim Associate Minister at Old South Church, Boston, Sept. 23 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kVjOcz Program: bit.ly/2kF2DMa
The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sunday sermon , Sept. 15, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2kQLCOX Bulletin: bit.ly/2mhw3jK
Morning Prayers service with speaker Wes Conn, Ministry Fellow, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sept. 18 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2mjHreY Program: bit.ly/2kl58Tx
Morning Prayers service with speaker Ali Asani ’77, PhD ’84, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures Committee on the Study of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Sept. 19 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kUjzhL Program: bit.ly/2kl58Tx
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonah C. Steinberg, Executive Director and Harvard Chaplain, Harvard Hillel, Sept. 16 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lYrpH8 Program: bit.ly/2kl58Tx
Morning Prayers service with speaker Cody Sanders, Pastor, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, American Baptist Chaplain, Harvard University, Sept. 16 2019. Transcript:https: //bit.ly/2lT70DC Program: bit.ly/2kl58Tx
Morning Prayers service with speaker Rakesh Khurana AM ’98, PhD ’98, Danoff Dean of Harvard College, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Professor of Sociology, Faculty Dean of Cabot House, Sept. 13 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kAeifh Program: bit.ly/2kCGUV2
Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine O'Dair, Dean of Students, Harvard College, Sept. 12 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kky8ei Program: bit.ly/2kCGUV2
Morning Prayers service with speaker Anya Bassett PhD ’97, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University, Sept. 10 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lGETrd Program: bit.ly/2kCGUV2
Tamira Stephens MTS ’15, HDS, Project Archivist, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Sept. 20 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kXbvg5 Program: bit.ly/2kl58Tx
Morning Prayers service with speaker Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister in the Memorial Church, Sept. 9 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2m8QcbN Program: bit.ly/2kCGUV2
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon Sept. 8, 2019, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2khBZZC Program: bit.ly/2kvnFwM
Morning Prayers service with speakerJohn Silvanus Wilson Jr., MTS ’81, EdM ’82, EdD ’85, Senior Advisor and Strategist to the President, Harvard University, Sept. 6, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2k3KirP Program: bit.ly/2lzZtcM
Morning Prayers service with speaker Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church; Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sept. 5, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2kukvZS Program: bit.ly/2lzZtcM
Morning Prayers service with speaker David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, Sept. 4, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2lYJmFM Program: bit.ly/2lzZtcM
Morning Prayers service with speaker Lawrence S. Bacow, JD ’76, MPP ’76, PhD ’78, President, Harvard University, Sept, 3, 2019. Transcript: bit.ly/2ksiyx3 Program: bit.ly/2lzZtcM
Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, and Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Sunday sermon, Sept. 1, 2019 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: bit.ly/2kx3YV1 Program: bit.ly/2lzHOSm
Amid the bustle on U.S. college campuses, a growing challenge is causing concern. Many college students of color report mental health issues–including depression, anxiety and, among some groups, increased risk for suicide–that are not well understood or effectively addressed. According to surveys conducted by Harris Poll, students of color feel both more isolated and more overwhelmed than their white classmates. At the same time, they are less likely to seek counseling services on campus.
Bringing together experts with diverse experiences and perspectives, this Forum explored how colleges can better support the social, emotional and mental health needs of students of color, particularly during the critical transition to college. Panelists emphasized evidence-based steps and policies that can help cultivate a positive and healthy experience for college students of color.
This Forum event was presented in partnership with The Steve Fund and jointly with HuffPost on September 18, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/mental-health-and-wellness-for-students-of-color/
This seminar was given on September 26, 2019 and was given by James E. Spiotto, Managing Director, Chapman Strategic Advisors LLC; Allan Fung, Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island; and Larry R. Deetjen, The Village Manager of Oak Lawn, Illinois. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly seminar series and was co-sponsored by the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, also at HKS.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Avoiding%20Government%20Meltdown%20Legal%20Solutions%20to%20Unaffordable%20Pension%20Liabilities.pdf
The U.S. officially eliminated measles nearly 20 years ago. Yet, this year, more than 1,100 cases have been reported, despite being preventable by vaccine. The CDC says the majority of cases are among those who were not vaccinated.
This Forum looked at the drivers of the 2019 outbreaks and, more generally, the challenges of vaccine acceptance. Why do some parents delay or decline vaccinating their children? How might their concerns be addressed? What about exemptions? Why does the global picture matter? And what can be done once an outbreak begins? New polling data framed this discussion, providing a uniquely current picture of vaccine acceptance in the U.S.
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on September 12, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-measles-outbreak/
Where and when alumni do their best thinking
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7132
Mayor Steve Benjamin sits for a wide ranging discussion with former Massachusetts State Representative, Jeffrey Sanchez. The conversation covers the mayor’s path to leadership, starting with Mayor Benjamin’s formative years up through the present day in the Mayor’s office. Topics include formative mentorship, staying true to one’s ideals, bipartisan solutions, and the importance of listening.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/steve-benjamin-mayor-columbia-south-carolina/
How Seni Sulyman and Andela plan to turn the continent into a computing hub
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7115
Patrick McGinnis, who coined the term “fear of missing out,” on how it increasingly drives our personal and professional lives—and how we can manage it
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7072
What does it mean for someone to flourish? Flourishing is more than just being happy—although that’s a part of it. But the idea of flourishing expands beyond happiness to look at a person’s overall well-being, taking into account things like life satisfaction or someone’s sense of purpose. That’s why studying flourishing is an interdisciplinary science drawing on public health, philosophy, psychology, and more.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/flourishingpod
In this week’s episode we’re talking to two researchers from Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University who are tackling big questions about flourishing: What does it mean for people to flourish? How do we measure it? And are there things that make people more or less likely to flourish?
Our guests are Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program and John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard Chan School, and Matthew Wilson, associate director of the Human Flourishing Program and a research associate at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
How Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince built a tech giant
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7060
As part of the Spring 2019 Reunion programming, faculty members Dr. William Pirl MD '94, MPH '08, RF '14 and Dr. Jamie Jacobs speak to an audience of reunioning alumni about their co-taught course, "Fighting Cancer with the Mind". Using 'do psychological factors influence cancer survival?' as central question in the course they teach, Dr. Pirl and Dr. Jacobs walk through their profession of psycho-oncology and the topics they cover with their students. Dr. William Pirl is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and is the Vice Chair for Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Pallative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Jamie Jacobs, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a clinical psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in the Center for Psychiatric Oncology and Behavioral Sciences.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/fac
Denise Murrell traded finance for fine arts—and cast a critical new eye on iconic paintings
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7047
A new study shows that transgender and gender-nonbinary teens face a greater risk of sexual assault in schools that prevent them from using bathrooms or locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. In this week's episode we speak with the study's author, Gabe Murchison, a doctoral student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Murchison explains why restrooms and locker room policies are so critical and outlines steps that schools, parents, and physicians can take to create more inclusive environments for transgender and gender-nonbinary adolescents.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/gender-pod
In this week’s podcast we’re sharing a special conversation between Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood and one of the co-founders of Supermajority, and Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Richards spoke about how Supermajority is working to empower women and organize them around key issues related to gender equity, including equal pay and child care. The two also spoke about the recent spate of anti-abortion laws across the United States and the need to protect reproductive rights.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/richards-pod
On April 11, 2019, Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever (2009-2018), was interviewed by Prof. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Produced in association with The Leadership Studio. Thinking about implementing a Culture of Health in your business, learning how business and public health intersect, or seeking to improve upon an existing model? “What CEOs Say” is a one-of-a-kind series of inspirational interviews centered around the real how-to’s of incorporating health for performance. To find out more, visit hsph.me/polman.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/leadership-studio/what-ceos-say/paul-polman/
Each year, more than 200 million people around the world are infected with malaria and more than 400,000 die. For the past two decades, the most successful method of malaria prevention has involved treating bed nets with long-lasting insecticides that kill mosquitoes. But that progress is being threatened as mosquitoes increasingly grow resistant to the most commonly used insecticides.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/malaria-pod
Now, new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health research offers a potential fresh approach to fighting malaria: directly target the parasite responsible for the disease. A recent study showed that mosquitoes that landed on surfaces coated with the antimalarial compound atovaquone were completely blocked from developing Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. The study was led by Flaminia Catteruccia, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and Doug Paton , a research fellow at the Harvard Chan School. In this week’s episode we sit down with Paton to discuss the findings—and how they could be used to make progress in the fight against malaria.
Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams has been caring for people since she was just a child. When Trent-Adams was just 12 she volunteered as a candy striper at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia. The Rear Admiral later served as a nurse in the U.S. Army before rising up the ranks of the U.S. Public Health Service to become Deputy Surgeon General. In 2017, she was named Acting Surgeon General for six months, becoming just the second nurse, and the first registered nurse to hold that position. Today, Trent-Adams is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health.
Throughout her career, Trent-Adams has focused on improving access to care for under-served and marginalized groups. And during a visit to the Harvard Chan School, we took the opportunity to interview Trent-Adams about her career in public health. She spoke about the need to shift America’s health care system to a prevention model, strategies for addressing complex health challenges, and how being a nurse has shaped her career.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/trent-adams-pod
Simon DeDeo from Carnegie Mellon presents empirical work that shows how communities, institutions, and the exceptional individual can overcome basic cognitive biases to create new science, new works of art, and new forms of political organization. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2wzPGJ9
Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have triggered controversy. Often touted as safer alternatives to regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes come with their own risks, including possible nicotine addiction. Use among youth in particular has increased dramatically, and the FDA has proposed tighter regulations in an effort to reduce teen use. In this Forum, experts explored the perceived risks and benefits of e-cigarettes, asking how best to move forward while preserving past tobacco control successes.
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with Reuters on May 7, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-e-cigarette-dilemma/
Can nutrition education solve the obesity epidemic? Hannah Cory asked that question over and over while working as a dietician in a public school system. Now, as a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences, Hannah’s research seeks to uncover the connection between fat-phobia, racism, and obesity in the US.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/your-body-isnt-broken
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo: Emily Crowell
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Special Thanks: Hannah Cory, Rick Sheiber, Julia King, Noah Leavitt, and the PRX Podcast Garage.
How Warwick Fairfax lost his family’s 150-year-old media empire—and found his purpose in the process
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7006
Hema Yoganarasimhan from Foster School of Business at the University of Washington explores the ongoing debate on the value of different types of targeting information, the incentives of ad-networks to engage in behavioral targeting, and the role of regulation. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/37JMd7N
This seminar was given on May 2, 2019 by Yair Listokin, Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as part of M-RCBG's weekly seminar series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Listokin%20on%20Law%20and%20Macroeconomics%20Legal%20Remedies%20to%20Recessions.pdf
What does it mean to have a "healthy gut?" Is it worth drinking kombucha or taking probiotics? What about that gut-brain connection? PhD candidates Cary Allen-Blevins and Vayu Maini Rekdal explore how "good" bacteria help us to break down our food – from our “first food” (breast milk) to meat and veggies.
Love this episode? There are more stories about Harvard scientists' research into microbes on the podcast Proof, from America's Test Kitchen.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/go-your-gut
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo: Emily Crowell
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Special Thanks to: Cary Allen-Blevins, Vayu Maini Rekdal, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the PRX Podcast Garage.
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Beth Altringer from the Harvard University Desirability Lab. To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2T0o8nB
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Colonel in the U.S. Army, Hise Gibson (MBA '15). To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2HGmrXk
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Brent Segal from Lockheed Martin discussing "AlphaPilot —Lockheed Martin AI drone racing innovation challenge." To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/38InMsE
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Raja Al Mazrouei from FinTech Hive discussing "FinTechs are the heroes bridging financial accessibility in MEASA." To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/37MN4nY
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Srikanth Jagabathula from the Harvard Business School. To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2PdyYWu
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Ayelet Israeli from Harvard Business School discussing "The added value of data analytics: evidence from online retailers." To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/3bQ28EG
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Lesly Goh from the World Bank Group discussing “Blockchain for social impact — moving beyond the hype." To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2HJRd1i
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Frank Nagle from the Harvard Business School. To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/32dxMHR
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Yael Grushka-Cockayne from Harvard Business School. To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/37MN4nY
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features space economist, Sinéad O’Sullivan (MBA '17) asking "Who wants to be a trillionaire? — interplanetary special." To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2HDDKrR
In April 2019, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together academics and practitioners for an idea exchange around technology in a multidisciplinary world. This Future Assembly flash talk features Perry Hewitt, a marketing and digital strategy consultant. To learn more, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2V3cwD8
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death around the world. And of those NCDs, chronic cardiometabolic conditions—such as heart disease and diabetes—are particularly deadly. For more than two decades, Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and and director of the Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic and Metabolic Research, has been working to understand the root causes of these diseases—what goes wrong at the cellular and molecular level to make us sick. In this week’s episode we share a wide-ranging conversation with Hotamışlıgil, focusing on the burden of cardiometabolic diseases, the importance of basic scientific research in treating and preventing these conditions, and the unique challenges of running a lab like the Sabri Ülker Center.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/ncd-pod
Radical Candor author Kim Scott on what effective feedback really looks like—and why it will make you a better boss
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6991
In the last few years, the popularity of "plant-based diets" has exploded. Celebrities from Tom Brady to Beyoncé promote eating less meat. Even Burger King introduced a meatless burger. Nina Gheihman, a PhD candidate in sociology, tells us how vegan cultural entrepreneurs, celebrities, and researchers are changing hearts, minds, and dinner plates. She'll also explain why we might all be eating vegan soon - whether we like it or not.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-goes-vegan
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo: Emily Crowell
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Special Thanks to: Graham Ball, Youth Radio Oakland, and Nina Gheihman
Jay Nixon, Visiting Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow and former Governor of Missouri, will be talking with Prof. Kimberlyn Leary on Friday, April 12, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear Governor Nixon’s advice on how to effectively move health policy through legislation in contentious times. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/nixon.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jay-nixon-former-governor-of-missouri/
Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, will be talking with Prof. Marica Castro on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear President Santos’ leadership journey, his challenges in government and what led to his historic decision to seek peace with the FARC. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/santos.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/juan-manuel-santos-former-president-of-colombia/
Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, will be talking with Prof. Marica Castro on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear President Santos’ leadership journey, his challenges in government and what led to his historic decision to seek peace with the FARC. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/santos.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/juan-manuel-santos-former-president-of-colombia/
After moving to the US from Mauritius, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Nikhita Obeegadoo felt homesick. Her experience eating a bowl of dal (spiced lentils) in the US led her to ask questions about food and diaspora, cultural appreciation, and cultural appropriation.
Full Transcript:
https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/masala
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo: Emily Crowell
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Special thanks to Nikhita Obeegadoo, and the PRX Podcast Garage.
This seminar was given on April 11, 2019 by Tom Wheeler, M-RCBG senior research fellow and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman (2013-2017) as part of M-RCBG's weekly seminar series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Tom%20Wheeler%20on%20New%20Rules%20for%20New%20Tech.pdf
This seminar was given by Karen Mills, former M-RCBG senior fellow and former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (2009-2013) on April 4, 2019. It was given as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Karen%20Mills%20on%20Fintech_%20Small%20Business%20_%20the%20American%20Dream.pdf
The United States spends more on health care per capita than other developed countries — much more. One recent paper estimated that U.S. costs were 25 percent higher than the next closest country. Recent polls have shown that reducing health care costs has emerged as one of the public’s top priorities for President Trump and the new Congress. Polls also show that health care costs are the leading pocketbook issue for families. To date, most discussion has been about prescription drug costs, but polling data suggest that the issue is likely to broaden as we approach the 2020 election to include debates on increasing government intervention vs. encouraging private sector competition to reduce costs. What might a divided Congress do? Drawing on a newly released poll by POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School, a panel of experts considered various solutions that have emerged to reduce health care costs.
This Forum event was presented jointly with POLITICO LLC on April 4, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/high-u-s-healthcare-costs/
Matthew Backus from Columbia University shares insights from three of his papers examining patterns of behavior on eBay and relate them to “rational” and “psychological” theories of bargaining. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2HEHQ35
This seminar was given on April 1, 2019 by Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016) as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Raghuram%20Rajan%20on%20How%20Markets%20_%20The%20State%20Leave%20Community%20Behind.pdf
This seminar was given by Bill Overholt, M-RCBG senior research fellow, on March 28, 2019 as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Bill%20Overholt%20on%20Will%20Xi%20Jinping%20Be%20Successful.pdf
What does a sustainable and healthy future mean when it comes to food production, consumption and resulting environmental impacts? With nearly a billion people globally going hungry and nearly two billion eating the wrong food, the answer is pressing – especially as we look to a future that needs to sustainably feed “10 billion by 2050.” This Forum explored how to avert dire consequences for human and planetary health through best practices and new technologies. Key questions were how to amplify nutritious food production, prevent waste and secure supplies, while protecting our environment in the process. The discussion included the “planetary health diet” recently proposed by an international commission that emphasizes plant-based eating for better health and for minimal ecological impact.
This Forum event was presented jointly with NBC News Digital on March 22, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/feeding-10-billion-by-2050/
Jody Olsen, Director of the Peace Corps, will be talking with Dr. Richard Frank of Harvard Medical School, on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear Director Olsen’s leadership journey and learn about her rise through the ranks of the Peace Corps – and how public and global health continue to shape the mission of the agency. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/Olsen.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jody-olsen-director-of-the-peace-corps/
Beibei Li from Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University shares insights from her paper which proposes a novel “trajectory-based” targeting strategy for mobile recommendation that leverages detailed information on consumers’ physical-movement trajectories using fine-grained behavioral information from different mobility dimensions. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/2wqaEKf
Noam Wasserman on what successful founders can teach us about life beyond business
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6972
March 22, 2019 — When many people think of design they’re probably picturing a product, like a new smartphone or car. But the design principles that lead to the creation of those products—such as the focus on human behavior or the use of prototyping—can also be harnessed to tackle complex public health challenges.
In this week’s episode you’ll learn how one of the world’s top public health researchers, Ashish Jha, dean for global strategy at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and one of the world’s foremost design experts, Patrick Whitney, professor in residence in the Department of Health Policy and Management, have teamed up to think about how design methods can be used to address issues ranging from the opioid epidemic to the future of hospitals.
This episode is a collaboration with Harvard Global Health Institute.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/design-pod
This seminar was given on March 13, 2019 by Michael Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia (2008-2016). It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Michael%20Nutter%20on%20the%20Role%20of%20Business%20and%20Public-Private%20Partnerships.pdf
The seminar Transparency First: Evolving Governance Systems on Tackling Climate Change Under the Paris Agreement was given by Artur Runge-Metzger, Director, European Commission on March 7, 2019.
It was given as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Runge-Metzger%20on%20Tracking%20Climate%20Change%20Under%20the%20Paris%20Agreement.pdf
Maternal mortality dropped by almost half over the last 25 years around the world. However, in startling contrast, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth doubled in the United States between 2000 and 2014, putting the nation second-to-last in maternal mortality among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Further, pernicious racial disparities mean that black women in the United States face a deeply distressing three- to four-times higher risk of pregnancy-related deaths. What factors are driving these increases and disparities? What changes will narrow the survival gap between white and black women? How can health care systems more effectively prevent complications and poor outcomes? And how can mothers themselves and their communities be agents for change for a more equitable and safe delivery of the next generation?
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on March 4, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/deaths-from-pregnancy-and-childbirth/
Entrepreneur DJ DiDonna says sabbaticals in Japan and Mauritius brought critical perspective to his personal and professional life. Now he’s working with researchers to show how extended time away from the daily grind can pay off for both workers and employers.
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6951
The traditional public health mantra is that there is no safe level of lead for kids. But a new report from the Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity finds that many kids in the U.S. could be exposed to lead through the water they drink at school.
The team from the Harvard Prevention Research Center analyzed data from 24 states that have lead testing programs in schools, plus Washington, D.C. Only 12 of the states had useable results. Among those, 12% of all water samples tested had higher-than-recommended lead levels, and 44% of schools tested had one or more samples with higher-than-recommended levels. In this week’s episode we’re talking about the report and its findings with Angie Cradock, who is the deputy director of the Prevention Research Center.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/lead-pod
Jack Markell, former Governor of Delaware, will be talking with Prof. Gina McCarthy, Director of Harvard C-CHANGE, on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from two experts as they talk about Delaware’s achievements in sustainability, livability and achieving effective policy at the state level. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/markell.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jack-markell-former-governor-of-delaware/
This seminar was given on March 4, 2019 and was moderated by Karen Dynan, HKS.
Jack Lew served as the 76th Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. He also served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Obama and Clinton Administrations. Previously, he was principal domestic policy advisor to House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr, and has held a variety of private sector and nonprofit roles. Jack is currently a partner at Lindsay Goldberg and on the faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. This event is sponsored by M-RCBG, IOP and the Business & Government PIC. Refreshments provided by the Dean's Office.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/A%20Conversation%20with%20Jack%20Lew_%20former%20US%20Treasury%20Secretary%20(2013-2017).pdf
"State-Firm Coordination and Upgrading: Reaching the Efficiency Frontier in Complex Industries" was given on February 28, 2019 by Angela Garcia Calvo, an M-RCBG Visiting Fellow. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Angela%20Garcia%20Calvo%20on%20the%20State-Firm%20Coordination%20and%20Upgrading.pdf
David Parkes from the John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Harvard University shares insights from a study exploring the use of tools from deep learning on revenue optimal, dominant-strategy incentive compatible auctions. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Transcript: https://hbs.me/39LJRq4
Next month we'll sit down with Dr. Anupam Jena again to discuss his latest work. This week we are re-releasing our first conversation with him from 2017.
Dr. Anupam Jena, of Massachusetts General Hospital, explains the intersection of economics and medicine, including why some physicians are more likely to purchase larger homes and how “defensive medicine” can drive the decision-making process during diagnosis and treatment.
For transcript go to: https://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/thinkresearch/
Colin Mayer on The Purpose and Future of the Corporation This seminar was given on February 21, 2019 by Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the University of Oxford. Also participating in the conversation were John Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at HKS and Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Mayer_2.19.19.transcript.pdf
In 2017, reports of hate crimes in the United States increased for the third consecutive year, according to the FBI. In addition to physical acts, such actions and other messages of racism, intolerance and extremism potentially impact large numbers of people online. In this Forum, experts tackled the painful and distressing spread of hate and racism. What social, political and psychological forces drive prejudice? How do modern media and the Internet enable and amplify hateful and racist messages? What are the impacts on the health and cohesion of society — and what can be done?
This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH on February 13, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/the-spread-of-hate-and-racism/
Jeffrey Sánchez, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 15th Suffolk/Norfolk district (2003-2019) and current Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, will be talking with Dr. Robert Blendon, Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on Friday, February 15, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from an experienced leader who is an expert at crafting policy solutions that address seemingly insurmountable challenges. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/sanchez.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/jeffrey-sanchez-former-massachusetts-state-representative/
This seminar was given on February 14, 2019 by Jonathan Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Policy and Professor of Public Policy at Duke Law School. It was given as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Transcript: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Wiener_2.14.19.transcript.pdf
Companies shouldn’t just react to the inevitable hack, says Red Seal CEO Ray Rothrock—they should prepare for it
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6909
Rich Horgan is on an urgent mission to save his brother—and he might just revolutionize drug development along the way.
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6897
This seminar was given on November 29, 2018 by Nancy Rose, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at MIT as part of M-RCBG's weekly Regulatory Policy Program seminar series.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/1ef62
Rare cancers present doctors, researchers, and patients with a unique set of challenges. Rare cancers often are diagnosed at later stages. Patients typically have limited treatment options, in part because the small number of diagnoses makes gold-standard clinical trials difficult. The picture is further complicated by increasingly expensive cancer drug costs. Yet, promises of emerging technologies, improved diagnostics, targeted therapies and pharmaceutical options provide hope. Calls for new ways to study rare cancers are being made so that patients can get access to better treatments more quickly. In this Forum, panelists discussed how advances in cancer immunology, innovative trial designs, and international data sharing can create new hope for patients with rare cancers. Supported by The Economist Group, this Forum event was presented on February 1, 2019.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Transcript: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/rare-cancers/
Each year in the U.S. more than 30,000 people are killed by guns—with two-thirds of those deaths being suicide. And there are tens of thousands non-fatal injuries. Yet research into preventing firearm violence remains limited and under-funded. In a special collaborative episode with Review of Systems we’re taking an in-depth look at gun violence in America: why we know so little about the toll of firearm injuries and deaths, what researchers want to know, and how they are engaging gun owners and enthusiasts as key stakeholders in advocating for more research.
You'll hear perspectives on gun violence from the emergency room, with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway. Ranney is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also chief research officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a non-partisan philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for high-quality, medically-focused, firearm injury research. Hemenway is a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He has written widely on injury prevention, on topics including firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls, and fractures.
Transcript: https://hsph.me/gun-violence-pod
Lawrence S. Bacow, President of Harvard University, will be talking with Michelle Williams, Dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from education experts on the present and future challenges facing higher education institutions and learn about President Bacow’s leadership journey from MIT to Tufts to Harvard.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/voices/events/lawrence-s-bacow-president-of-harvard-university/
Climate change will mean more extreme weather, including heat waves. And Climate change will mean more extreme weather, including heat waves. And it’s not a distant threat—we’re already seeing the effects now in the United States. In this week’s episode, we explore the health threat posed by severe heat and how our society needs to adapt in the decades ahead. You'll hear from Augusta Williams, a doctoral student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who studies how extreme heat can affect our bodies and minds. She'll explain why heat is considered a "silent killer" and how we can combat the effects of our warming world.
Full Transcript: hsph.me/heat-pod
This episode was produced with assistance from Veritalk, a podcast from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Wearable technology and robotics are two rehabilitation methods used to help those with limited mobility regain movement. Paolo Bonato, PhD, director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, discusses the role of innovative technology in rehabilitation.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/38s
Thinking about implementing a Culture of Health in your business, learning how business and public health intersect, or seeking to improve upon an existing model? “What CEOs Say” is a one-of-a-kind series of inspirational interviews centered around the real how-to’s of incorporating health for performance. Watch the inaugural webcast from Jan. 15, 2019 with Dan Houston, Chairman, President and CEO of Principal Financial Group, produced in association with The Leadership Studio. Dr. Howard Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School, moderates.
Transcript: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/leadership-studio/what-ceos-say/dan-houston/
For many Americans, a visit with their doctor no longer requires an actual trip to the doctor’s office. More physicians are offering so-called “telemedicine” services, where they provide care to patients via smart phones, tablets, and computers. And while telemedicine is being more used more frequently across the U.S., it’s still relatively uncommon, according to a new study led by Michael Barnett, assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard Chan School. In this week's episode we speak to Barnett about the rise of telemedicine, ways to further increase its use, and how this technology could improve health care for patients in the years to come.
Full Transcript: hsph.me/virtual-pod
Speaker: Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books, articles, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature, especially Chinese poetry, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982, before coming to Harvard. In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors.
Discussant: Michael Puett, Harvard University
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy, anthropology, history, and religion, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early Chinaand To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity.
The Reischauer Lectures were established in 1985 to honor Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, by celebrating his distinguished contributions to the study not only of Japan but also of China and Korea. As a reflection of Reischauer’s research, this series intends to highlight current scholarship that deepens understandings of East Asia as a region.
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Mittal South Asia Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/1aa2c
Speaker: Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. Owen has written or edited dozens of books, articles, and anthologies in the field of Chinese literature, especially Chinese poetry, including An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton, 1996); The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard Asia Center, 2006); and The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard Asia Center, 2006). Owen has completed the translation of the complete poetry of Du Fu, which has been published as the inaugural volumes of the Library of Chinese Humanities series, featuring Chinese literature in translation. Owen earned a B.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972) in Chinese Language from Yale University. He taught there from 1972 to 1982, before coming to Harvard. In acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work that crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, Owen was awarded the James Bryant Conant University Professorship in 1997. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2006) among many other awards and honors.
Discussant: Stephen H. West
Stephen West is a Foundation Professor of Chinese in the School of International Letters and Cultures. West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600), with specialties in performance literature, drama, urban literature, and garden studies.
The Reischauer Lectures were established in 1985 to honor Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, by celebrating his distinguished contributions to the study not only of Japan but also of China and Korea. As a reflection of Reischauer’s research, this series intends to highlight current scholarship that deepens understandings of East Asia as a region.
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, Mittal South Asia Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/1208d
Friday, October 26th the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Program on Crisis Leadership, and the Institute of Politics hosted an event with San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. Taubman Center Executive Director Rafael Carbonell moderated.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/948f2
On Wednesday, October 17th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Black Student Union at Harvard Kennedy School hosted a discussion with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney about the state of voting rights, including the restoration of voting rights for felons. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, moderated.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/1c4b1
On Thursday, November 8, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and digital HKS hosted a discussion on European and American approaches to tech policy. The conversation featured Henri Piffaut, a senior advisor with the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. Harvard Kennedy School’s Muriel Rouyer and David Eaves served as respondents.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/hky
Welcome to the latest episode Leader ReadyCast.
This month, the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative marks its 15 year anniversary. In this episode we are looking back at the program’s greatest hits—and looking forward at what is next to come.
Our guests are Dr. Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the NPLI, and Rich Serino, a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the NPLI. Both have been with the program since the beginning; Dr. Marcus as one of the original faculty and Mr. Serino a participant of the NPLI Executive Education Program, Cohort I.
Transcript: https://hrvd.me/8014c
Global Citizen Year founder Abby Falik on why kids need to find their purpose before freshman year
Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6881
Oral rehydration solution (ORS)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is administered as part of oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—is credited with preventing tens of millions of deaths from cholera and other diarrheal diseases. In this week’s podcast you’ll hear from two scientists who helped bring this simple, low-tech, and cost-effective treatment into worldwide use. Richard Cash, senior lecturer on global health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and David Nalin, professor emeritus at Albany Medical College, collaborated on groundbreaking clinical studies showing that ORT was remarkably effective in reversing dehydration.
This episode is a collaboration with Harvard Global Health Institute.
On Friday, December 7, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, hosted a discussion with Kathryn Perera, former Ash Center Democracy Fellow, Deputy Director in the English National Health Service, and a current Fellow of Practice in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Psychology of Change program; and Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow. The talk, a part of the Ash Center Community Speaker Series, was titled, “Leadership, Organizing, and Innovation: Making Health Care Work.” Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, moderated.
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about his book “Facts and Fears,” defending the intelligence community, and comic books.
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Donor-dependent, platelets are in short supply. To stop bleeding and repair tissues, they are essential for patients with cancer and those undergoing surgery. Jonathan Thon, PhD, co-founder of Platelet BioGenesis, discusses his organization's work to create platelets that can be used to treat these patients and deliver cancer-fighting drugs.
Was Eastern Labs a huge success or an expensive mistake? Eastern Bank CEO Bob Rivers innovates from within by partnering with FinTech entrepreneur Dan O’Malley to launch a completely automated small business lending product. Karen Mills discusses key questions from the case: Did Rivers have the right intrapreneurship model? Did he change the culture at Eastern? Did he make a mistake spinning off Numerated into a separate company?
After thirty years of research and development, the HondaJet is now the top selling jet in the very light jet segment of the market. Professor Gary Pisano discusses how Honda Aircraft Corporation CEO Michimasa Fujino brought the jet to life, and must decide on ways to grow the business.
D.J. Wu from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology shares insights from his study looking at how piggybacking (importing users from external networks) is being used as a new approach to launching platforms. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Clinical research plays a critical role in developing healthcare innovations that can be made available quickly to serve the needs of patients. Lina Williamson, DVM, PhD, director of the Translational Accelerator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses her entrepreneurial program’s role in supporting both the investigator and patient communities in these efforts.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Dec. 2, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard Divinity School., December 6, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Adam Reynolds, Blue Ocean Faith Chaplain, Office of Religious Life, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 4, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Faculty Director of HarvardX, December 5, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Anya Bassett Ph. D. ‘97, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University, December 3, 2018.
For busy families, gathering together for a meal—whether it’s breakfast or dinner—can be difficult. But a growing body of research shows that these meals together can have an important influence on the quality of food that children and teens eat. However, there’s been less research on effective ways to encourage families to eat together more often. In this week’s episode we’re speaking with Kathryn Walton, research fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a PhD student at the University of Guelph in Toronto, about a new study that could help public health professionals target interventions at busy families.
Walton and a team of researchers, including Bryn Austin, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, found that when families sit down together for dinner, adolescents and young adults eat more fruits and vegetables and consume fewer fast-food and takeout items. What’s unique about this study is that Walton and her colleagues looked at the families participating in the meal—assessing how they communicated, managed schedules, and even bonded with children, something called family functioning. And they found that the benefits of family meals were seen regardless of how well—or poorly—a family functioned. We spoke with Walton about the findings of her study and how they could inform future initiatives to encourage families to eat together.
Michael Zhang from the School of Business at the Chinese University of Hong Kong discusses how real-world consumer decisions are often derived from visual perceptions about displayed rating distributions and argues that such distribution charts may inadvertently lead to a consumer-choice bias (the Distributional Matthew Effect). To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Anne E. Monius ‘87, AM ‘91, PhD ‘97, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School, November 8, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Edward Elwyn Jones, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, November 9, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, EU.S. Army Veteran Richard Martinez III '21, Harvard College, November 12, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Ming Li Wu, '21, Harvard College, November 13, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, David F. Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School, November 14, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Ciarra Jones '19, Harvard College, November 15, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine Schofield, Interim Minister, The Memorial Church, November 16, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Sienna Leis '00, Director of College Reunions, Harvard Alumni Association, November 19, 2018.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Nov. 4, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
The Honorable Deval L. Patrick, Managing Director, Bain Capital Double Impact; Former Governor of Massachusetts, Sunday sermon Nov. 11, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
The Rev. Eugene Cho, Founder, One Day's Wages and Quest Church, Seattle, Washington Sunday sermon, Nov. 18, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
On Thursday, November 8, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and digital HKS hosted a discussion on European and American approaches to tech policy. The conversation featured Henri Piffaut, a senior advisor with the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. Harvard Kennedy School’s Muriel Rouyer and David Eaves served as respondents.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Amanda Sharick, Graduate Commons Program Manager, Harvard University, November 5, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Bridget Terry Long AM ’97, PhD ’00, Saris Professor of Education and Economics and Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, November 6, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Mihir Desai MBA ’93 PhD ’98, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, November 7, 2018.
This seminar was given on November 8, 2018 by Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
What if you could avoid the hospital and receive care in your own home? David Levine, MD, MPH, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital discusses this innovative new model, including the social and economic benefits.
In this week's episode we bring you an in-depth conversation with a public health pioneer. During her five-decade career, Marie McCormick, Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor, emerita, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has worked on a range of issues: from the health of pre-term babies to vaccines to cannabis. McCormick began her career as a pediatrician and conducted groundbreaking research on the outcomes of high-risk infants, especially preterm infants, and the evaluation of programs to improve their health and development. During our conversation we covered all of that, plus McCormick’s views on the future of child and maternal health, including the need to address poverty’s role in childhood health.
Jeffrey Furman from the Department of Strategy & Policy at Boston University shares insights from his paper (co-authored with Florenta Teodoridis) exploring how an increase in the availability of IT-based research technology influences the production of research ideas and the mobility of research in the ideas space. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
If tech pioneer and Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky doesn’t fear the Terminator, neither should we
What do rural Americans say are the biggest problems in their local communities? A new poll finds that drug/opioid abuse and economic concerns are the top challenges. When it comes to drug addiction and abuse, a majority of rural Americans say opioid addiction is a serious problem in their community. On economic issues, rural Americans largely hold negative views of their local economy, but nearly one-third have seen economic progress in recent years. What may help? A majority of rural Americans believe outside help will be necessary to solve major community problems in the future, and many believe government will play an important role.
Convened shortly before National Rural Health Day and after the nation’s midterm elections, a panel of experts explored the public health and policy implications of these findings within the broader context of life in rural America.
This Forum event was presented jointly with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR on November 9, 2018.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Is it time to throw out the creative director and rely on big data to predict what consumers want to wear next? Assistant Professor Ayelet Israeli discusses how Gap CEO Art Peck considers this bold idea to boost sales.
Feeding America is the third largest nonprofit in the United States, managing a network of more than 200 food banks nationwide. Harvard Business School professor Scott Duke Kominers and Chicago Booth School of Business professor Canice Prendergast discuss how the organization designed a marketplace that was efficient and fair for all participants.
Craig Paxton, Ed.M.'09, executive director of Axium Education, on the importance of supporting education efforts in South Africa's most rural communities.
What do rural Americans say are the biggest problems in their local communities? A new poll finds that drug/opioid abuse and economic concerns are the top challenges. When it comes to drug addiction and abuse, a majority of rural Americans say opioid addiction is a serious problem in their community. On economic issues, rural Americans largely hold negative views of their local economy, but nearly one-third have seen economic progress in recent years. What may help? A majority of rural Americans believe outside help will be necessary to solve major community problems in the future, and many believe government will play an important role.
Convened shortly before National Rural Health Day and after the nation’s midterm elections, a panel of experts explored the public health and policy implications of these findings within the broader context of life in rural America.
This Forum event was presented jointly with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR on November 9, 2018.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Joanne Kenen, Executive Editor, Health Care at POLITICO, and Margaret Talev, senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, will be talking with Dr. Robert Blendon on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. Watch the webcast to learn more about how these expert journalists are covering important issues like health care, the results of the midterm elections, and what future issues will be facing America ahead of the 2020 elections.
What is the status of evidence-based environmental policy in the U.S? Sweeping policy shifts, regulatory rollbacks, and decisions such as the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement prompt questions. This Forum provided an opportunity to discuss the challenges facing environmental science today. Panelists explored areas potentially or already impacted by change, such as the Clean Power Plan, methane rules, and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) implementation — and their public health implications. Experts described how the EPA and other agencies are responding and shared ideas for steps forward to nurture and protect the principles of peer-reviewed environment science.
This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH on October 19, 2018.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Morning Prayers service with speaker Cindy Rowe, Executive Director, The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, October 1, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, October 2, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Kirstin Boswell-Ford, Director of Religious Life, Massachusetts Institute of Technology., October 3, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Shelly Lowe, Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Jonah Steinberg, Executive Director and Harvard Chaplain, Harvard Hillel, October 5, 2018.
The Rev. Westley P. Conn, Ministry Fellow, the Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sunday sermon September 30, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Howard Koh, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, October 9, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Anne Marie Hunter, Executive Director and Founder, Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence, Boston, October 12, 2018.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Oct. 7, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Lara Glass, MDiv '17, Student Program Fellow in the Memorial Church, October 10, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Getzel Davis, Associate Rabbi and Jewish Educator, Director of Graduate Programming at Harvard Hillel., October 15, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Anwar Omeish ‘19, President, Phillips Brooks House Association, October 18, 2018
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Theoharis C. Theoharis, Associate Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, October 16, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Burns Stanfield, President of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston, October 17, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine Schofield, Interim Minister, The Memorial Church, October 19, 2018.
The Rev. Dr. Stephanie Paulsell, Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church; Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, sermon on Sunday, October 14, 2018 in the Memorial Church.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Sheehan Scarborough ’07, MDiv ’14, Director of the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, Harvard College, October 11, 2018.
This seminar was given on November 1, 2018 by Severin Borenstein, Professor and aFaculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley. It was given as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Today, many individuals are at risk for cancer due to heredity factors. Megan Underhill, PhD, RN, AOCNS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses her work in genetic testing and the importance family, perceptions and knowledge play in supporting those at risk.
Teresa Acuña, Associate Director for Democratic Governance at the Ash Center, sits down with Victoria McCullough, Social Impact & Public Policy Lead at Tumblr, for a conversation about Tumblr, civic engagement and more.
Victoria McCullough currently leads the Social Impact and Public Policy team at Tumblr focusing on engaging and activating advocacy groups, activists, and other changemakers to tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement with the Tumblr community, and drive measurable impact. In November 2016, Tumblr launched Action on Tumblr, a community dedicated to promoting the voices of the marginalized, giving users a space to connect with each other on the issues that matter to them, and providing them with the tools and resources to move online passion to offline activism.
In early January 2018, Tumblr launched the #WhatWillYouDo campaign asking Tumblr users, artists, and activists to use art and storytelling to demonstrate what they want the history books to say about 2018 and how they plan to act to shape that story.
Victoria was inspired to work in the social good space after getting her start organizing voters for then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2007-08 presidential election cycle. She then went on to work for the Obama Administration in the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Congressional Affairs.
John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Senior Advisor and Strategist to the President of Harvard University, will be talking with Prof. Sara Bleich on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Watch the webcast to learn more about what steps Harvard University is taking to building a more inclusive environment, and what lessons can be learned from fellow universities like Morehouse College and other HBCU’s.
This seminar was given on November 8, 2018 by Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.
Natasha Warikoo, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the Harvard trial and whether college admissions can ever truly be fair.
Robby Mook (@RobbyMook), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Manager and a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about lessons from the 2016 campaign, the Defending Digital Democracy Project, and dark chocolate. _______________
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Healthcare has again emerged as a pivotal issue for American voters. Conversations around preexisting conditions protections, short-term health plans, drug costs and premium rates are as contentious as ever. Debates around Medicare and Medicaid have grabbed headlines, while the Affordable Care Act has remained divisive, despite helping millions become insured. Against this backdrop, state governments have forged ahead with their own health policy decisions, adding to the complex tangle of healthcare policies in the country. This Forum panel explored what’s at stake in the 2018 midterm elections for Americans and their healthcare future.
This Forum event was presented jointly with Reuters November 1, 2018.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-monsters-episode-3-king-kong-vs-gravity
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Crowell
Special thanks Shane Campbell-Staton and Graham Ball.
Listen to The Biology of Superheroes here: https://thebiologyofsuperheroespodcast.podbean.com/
Irvin Scott, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about why faith leaders can be key players in educational outcomes for children in their communities.
Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-monsters-episode-2-parasites
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Crowell
Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.
"Watch Your Words: How Strategic Communication Can Shape Sustainability Regulation, Its Reception, and Its Implementation in Organizations...a socio-legal presentation with examples from Denmark, the EU and the UK."
This seminar was given on October 18, 2018 by Prof. Karin Buhmann, Copenhagen Business School. It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
What is the status of evidence-based environmental policy in the U.S? Sweeping policy shifts, regulatory rollbacks, and decisions such as the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement prompt questions. This Forum provided an opportunity to discuss the challenges facing environmental science today. Panelists explored areas potentially or already impacted by change, such as the Clean Power Plan, methane rules, and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) implementation — and their public health implications. Experts described how the EPA and other agencies are responding and shared ideas for steps forward to nurture and protect the principles of peer-reviewed environment science.
This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH on October 19, 2018.
Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
Dr. Richardson (see October 10 episode) returns to discuss the theories and systems that currently shape how we understand public health, including how these perceptions can be problematic to our progress.
How do you build a culture of preparedness, educate the public—what are the limits of relying upon the public in a response, and understand the dynamics of active shooter and other mass casualty events? Dr. Eric Goralnick, Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital will share with us his experiences in the Boston Marathon bombing response and expertise on the intersection of emergency medicine with disaster preparedness and response.
Many of us spend hours each day on our smartphones, whether it's texting friends or using our GPS for directions. And each of those actions leaves behind a digital breadcrumb. In this week's episode we're digging into our archives to explain how researchers are mining this data to improve health. JP Onnela, associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will explain how harnessing smartphone information can be used to improve everything from our mental health to recovery from surgery.
Terry Tempest Williams reads Weather or Not, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations. Read the entire anthology at: green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Joel Waldfogel from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota shares highlights from his book "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture." To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Erica Groshen a Visiting Senior Scholar at the ILR School of Cornell University and Susan Helper from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University share their insights on how the introduction and diffusion of autonomous vehicles (AVs) affect U.S. workers and employers.To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu..
Ben Trachtenberg, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, gives an insider look at what happened during the 2015 Mizzou protests that led to resignations, decreased enrollment rates, and budget cuts.
Mermaids: They’re cute, innocent, and great singers, right? Think again! PhD candidate in Celtic Languages and Literatures Greg Darwin explains why you wouldn’t want to meet a mermaid in a dark aquatic alley. He also talks about selkie tales – and legendary creatures that live at the edge of humanity.
Full Transcript: http://gsas.harvard.edu/veritalk
The Veritalk Team:
Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
Executive Producer: Ann Hall
Sound Designer: Ian Coss
Logo Designer: Emily Crowell
The deep ocean is the least explored environment on Earth, and scientists estimate that many thousands of species are yet to be encountered. Marine researchers depend on tools primarily developed for the military or the oil and gas industry to study and capture undersea organisms. Many of them are extremely fragile, some thousands of years old, and too often they are damaged or destroyed by equipment that is hard, bulky, and hard to control.
In this episode of Disruptive, Rob Wood, a roboticist and Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute, and David Gruber, a marine biologist at Baruch College, discuss a chance encounter that led them to develop soft robotic tools that enable a new, non-invasive approach to interacting with deep ocean life.
Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2020/02/26123931/Ep013_Disruptive_SoftRoboticsForDeepSeaExploration.pdf
Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane brought a data driven and unconventional approach to winning baseball games. By setting strategy and articulating the metric to evaluate and acquire the players who would ultimately implement his strategy on the field, Beane’s sabermetrics approach brought about a cultural shift in baseball from the players and managers to coaches and scouts. Professor Srikant Datar discusses how strategy and metrics work hand-in-hand, and how Beane’s story provides companies with important lessons in data science.
David Shulkin, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, will be talking with Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, on Monday, October 15, 2018. Watch the webcast to learn more about the leadership lessons and challenges facing Dr. Shulkin as he represented 21 million American veterans and was responsible for the nation’s largest integrated health care system with over 1,200 sites of care, serving over 9 million Veterans.
As the role of “strongman” leaders on the world stage appears to be on the rise, this panel examines “strongman politics” in a comparative context. In May 2018, Time Magazine proclaimed in an article that “The ‘Strongmen Era’ Is Here” (Time, May 3, 2018). Highlighting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s tightening authoritarianism in Russia and China, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Rodrigo Duterte, and Viktor Orbán’s undermining of democratic norms in Turkey, the Philippines, and Hungary, it certainly appears that Huntington’s post-Cold War “third wave” of democratization is witnessing a strongman-inspired reversal. But does this entail a new “era” of authoritarianism advance as the United States rhetorically withdraws from its global leadership role?
This panel examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Elsa Clavé, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center, examines the 2016 election of Duterte in the Philippines; Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, looks at Erdoğan’s reversal of Turkey’s previous move towards democratization; Joseph Fewsmith, Professor Political Science at Boston University, compares Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power in China to Mao’s historical rise at Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; and Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science at Clark University, interrogates the cult-like masculinity of Vladimir Putin’s image as a “manly” leader in post-Soviet Russia.
Regarding her upcoming discussion of the presidency of Duterte at the panel, Asia Center Postdoctoral Fellow Elsa Clavé, a historian of the Philippines working on the expression of authority and power in its Muslim periphery, stated “President Duerte is not only a populist; he was elected and stays extremely popular for various other reasons. Understanding these reasons is essential to understanding the present society and the direction it is taking. Models and theory are a good approach to reality, but reality exceeds both. A conversation between different fields and disciplines will help, I hope, to refine the model.”
The panel is moderated by Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, and a specialist on Southeast Asia, and introduced by Karen Thornber, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center.
Co-sponsoring Centers: Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Harvard University Asia Center Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Calder Walton (@calder_walton), the author of Empire of Secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about the history of intelligence, Russian espionage, and his favorite secret. _______________
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Gene Richardson, MD, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discusses how his background in anthropology, philosophy, Buddhism, and medicine led him to a deeper understanding of public health challenges – including inequality -- throughout the world.
Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany. Dr. Zenz is author of the recently published paper, '"Thoroughly Reforming Them Towards a Healthy Heart Attitude" - China's Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang,' (Central Asian Survey 2018).
Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University
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Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
Stanford Professor Sean Reardon talks about the downward trend in private school enrollments, what this tells us about the middle class in America, and why it’s important for everyone to pay attention to who goes to private school.
Bob Inglis, former U.S. Representative for South Carolina and Executive Director of republicEn.,org, will be talking with Gina McCarthy, Director of Harvard C-CHANGE, on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. Watch the webcast to learn about bipartisan, effective policies that can enacted to confront a pressing challenge facing the world – climate change.
Dr. Keri L. Day, Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion, Princeton Theological Seminary., Sunday sermon Sept. 23, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government September 28, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Timothy P. McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education; Core Faculty/Program Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, September 27, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jane Pickering, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, September 25, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Andrew Martinez, Administrative Coordinator to Harvard Chaplains, September 25, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine O’Dair, Dean of Students, Harvard College, September 24, 2018.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Sept. 16, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker John Edgerton, Associate Minister, Old South Church, September 21, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Muslim Chaplain, Harvard University, September 20, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Diana L. Eck, Director, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School: Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Faculty Dean of Lowell House, September 19, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Salil Shetty, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, September 17, 2018.
Panic and anxiety disorders affect two to four percent of Americans. However, those afflicted often know little about these conditions and suffer from a lack of treatment options. In her work at Massachusetts General Hospital, Amanda Baker, PhD, is striving to develop an improved -- and personalized -- standard of care.
Every minute 24 people around the world are forced to leave their homes—and it’s estimated that more than 65 million people are currently displaced. In this week’s episode, we explore the global refugee and migration crisis with Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human rights. Bhabha has studied migration extensively, and focuses on potential solutions to the crisis in her new book, “Can We Resolve the Migration Crisis?” In this interview, Bhabha speaks about the myriad factors driving the current refugee and migration crisis, how rising nationalism and xenophobia worldwide is affecting migration, and the policy changes needed to build a better global migration system.
Early childhood education expert Junlei Li spoke to the Harvard EdCast recently about the meaning of high quality in early childhood education, how Fred Rogers' legacy influenced his work, and what deep and simple actually looks like in practice.
Randall Curren, a professor at the University of Rochester, discusses why it’s ethically indefensible for schools to continue sponsoring tackle football.
Doris Santoro, an associate professor at Bowdoin, explores how many teachers are demoralized not burnt out in the profession. She also discusses how school leaders can stave off this phenomenon and gives sound advice for teachers.
This seminar was given on September 19, 2018 by Bill Janeway, author and senior advisor and managing director at Warburg Pincus. It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Professor Geoffrey Jones examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. He created a diversified business group, linked to the political elite, integrating Argentina into the trading and financial networks of the first global economy. The case, Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas, provides an opportunity to understand why Argentina was such a successful economy at this time, and to debate whether its very success laid the basis for the country's subsequent poor economic performance.
Code for America COO Minnie Ingersoll on how her organization is strengthening the social safety net
Globally, people are living longer. What are the most compelling ways to ensure a sustainably healthy life? In this exciting live-streamed event, world-renowned author and speaker, Deepak Chopra, discussed the important connections between mind, immunity, genes and body. Dr. Chopra explored how chronic stress and inflammation can undermine immunity and health, ultimately seeking to empower people who wish to nurture their wellbeing over their lifetimes. He also discussed how these insights play out within public health, particularly as individuals and societies cope with epidemics, environmental threats, superbugs, aging and other challenges. He included takeaways from his new book, The Healing Self: A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life, co-authored with esteemed Harvard neurology professor Rudolph Tanzi.
This special Forum presentation featured Dr. Chopra in conversation with The World’s Carol Hills, following some brief remarks. Dr. Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard Chan School, welcomed the audience and introduced the speaker.
This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on September 12, 2018.
Watch the entire Forum series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/
This seminar was given on September 13, 2018 by Stuart Eizenstat, former chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter; U.S. Ambassador to the European Union; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration. It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on September 5, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Westley Conn, Ministry Fellow, The Memorial Church, September 6, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine Schofield, Interim Minister, The Memorial Church, September 7, 2018.
Dr. Patricia García, current Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow and former Minister of Health of Peru, will be talking with Dr. Rifat Atun about her strategies for effective public health policy implementation and her personal leadership challenges on the Voices in Leadership program on Thursday, September 6, 2018.
Xi Jinping is consolidating power just as China has embarked on an unprecedented push to become a global and technological power. Xi’s followers are fashioning an economic and administrative system that they hope can achieve these ambitious goals. Some parts of this multi-stranded program will succeed and some will fail. The global economy—and global power relations—will depend on the balance between success and failure, and the ways in which Chinese manages the success and failure of individual initiatives.
Barry Naughton is the Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at UCSD. He is one of the world’s most highly respected economists working on China. He is an authority on the Chinese economy with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance and China’s transition to a market economy.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
John Quackenbush, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses his research on networks within the genome that impact the functionality of cells.
This seminar was given on September 11, 2018 by Liliana Andonova, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at The Graduate Institute of Geneva . It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Sept. 2, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon May 6, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
The Rev. Margery Kennelly, Episcopal Chaplain, Harvard University, Sunday sermon April 29, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Cara Jacobson ‘18, Harvard College, Harvard University Choir Secretary, May 2, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Megan Gao '18, Harvard College, Winthrop House, May 1, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Haley Curtin '18, Harvard College, Adams House, April 27, 2018.
Karenna Gore '95 Director of the Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, Sunday sermon April 22, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Lisa Chille '18, Harvard College, Currier House, April 27, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jorrion Wilson '18, Harvard College, Lowell House, April 25, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Arianna Kahn '18, Harvard College, Mather House, April 24, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Oskar Kocol '18, Harvard College, Quincy House, April 23, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jake Levene '18, Harvard College, Dunster House, April 26, 2018.
In this week’s podcast we’ll explore how America’s streets can be redesigned to benefit bicyclists and pedestrians—and we’ll explain why doing so may even help mitigate the effects of climate change.
A new study from Anne Lusk, research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed how bicyclists and pedestrians responded to various placements of trees along cycle tracks—barrier-protected bicycle-exclusive paths between the road and the sidewalk. The research shows that the placement of these trees can play an important role in how people walking and biking perceive traffic, pollution, heat, and even safety.
But the benefits extend beyond just those using the street—and could even be a factor in mitigating the effects of climate change. These trees may make it more likely that people will bike—helping to reduce pollution. And increased greenery can also help cool cities, which often suffer from a heat island effect, which means they’re significantly warmer than more rural areas. Lusk says all of this highlights the need to re-think how we’re designing streets to encourage more people to walk and bike instead of drive.
American President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change just over a year ago. What does that mean for the role of United States companies and business leaders in confronting climate change challenges? Assistant Professor Vincent Pons looks at the historical debate and what the road ahead looks like for the role of business in improving the environment.
James K. Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author (with R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin) of Kissinger the Negotiator, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about why Kissinger was an effective negotiator, the lessons we can all learn about negotiation, and Trump’s private sector negotiations. _______________
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Aaron Ellison reads Contested landscape, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including former writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations.
Read the entire anthology at: https://green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Amanda Gorman reads In the eye of, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including former writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations.
Read the entire anthology at: https://green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Arielle Ruth reads Plunge, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including former writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations.
Read the entire anthology at: https://green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Christian Schatz reads When I think, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including former writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations.
Read the entire anthology at: https://green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Kathleen Ong reads Vatnajökull, a poem that was included in Weathering Change, an art anthology in response to climate change that has been released by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS).
The compilation of poetry and art was sourced from a diverse range of twenty-one students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It includes original work from renowned writers including former writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and the United States’ national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, College 2020. For other contributors like Christian Schatz, College 2018, it was the first time their poetry was selected for publication.
The collection was commissioned by OFS to amplify the voices of artists across campus, and to reinforce the important role that the humanities play in helping us understand and advance our collective responsibility to address the global sustainability challenges facing this generation and future generations.
Read the entire anthology at: https://green.harvard.edu/campaign/weathering-change
Morning Prayers service with speaker Lawrence S. Bacow, JD ’76, MPP ’76, PhD ’78, President of Harvard University, Sept. 4, 2018.
Alumni share stories of some of their greatest challenges—and what they learned in the process
Due to a deep societal stigma around HIV, many individuals in Southern India do not seek care. Brian Chan of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explains how mixed methods approach to combating these obstacles.
Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s most successful banks. But then its sales culture went wild, opening more than 2 million fake accounts. Suraj Srinivasan discusses what went wrong.
In early 2015, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood and the rest of senior leadership faced a fundamental choice. Was the company ready to invest in long-term growth at the expense of some short-term profit? Professor Fritz Foley discusses how executives thought through the tradeoffs.
A continual challenge for preparedness and response leaders is communicating their story. Dr. Murray Nossel, author of Powered by Storytelling: Excavate, Craft, and Present Stories to Transform Business Communication, shares insights and examples from his 30 years of helping individuals and organizations become better story tellers. Hint: It starts with listening and emerges from “the inside out.” This is NOT about media strategy. It is a lively exploration of how to communicate more effectively and authentically with internal and external audiences.
A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that students who lived in dormitories without air conditioning during a heat wave performed worse on a series of simple tests compared with students who lived in air-conditioned dorms. The findings show that the effects of extreme heat are not just felt by those typically thought of as vulnerable—such as the elderly. And with global temperatures on the rise, the research underscores the need for sustainable design solutions in mitigating the health impacts of extreme heat.
In this week's episode, we'll speak with the authors of that study to learn how we can better design our buildings and cities to adapt to our changing climate. You'll hear from Joe Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, and Jose Guillermo (Memo) Cedeño Laurent, associate director of the Healthy Buildings Program.
Jim Langford, executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project, on his group’s anti-opioid advertising strategy
This week on ThinkResearch, Raj Gupta of MGH, explains how his team, along with his engineering background, is working to advance the future of clinical imaging to improve efficiency and accessibility.
Jim Langford, executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project, on his group’s anti-opioid advertising strategy
Oren Ganor, MD of Boston Children’s Hospital discusses the important challenges and considerations in providing safe and ethical resources to transgender individuals.
Our guest in this episode is Brian Hastings, Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. We discuss his NPLI Executive Education Program team project on combating opioid addiction which has become an enduring initiative as well as his transition from the military to leading a civilian agency. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Hastings served on active duty for 27 years, finishing his career as Commandant of the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base. In his first week as head of AEMA, he faced Hurricane Irma, a dramatic beginning to his new career. Hastings is an alumnus of NPLI EEP Cohort XV.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps 40 million low-income Americans afford food each month. But the program's future is uncertain as Congress debates the Farm Bill, a multi-year spending bill that will expire on September 30. The Trump administration has proposed significant changes—including cuts in funding—that could shape SNAP in the years ahead.
In this week's episode we examine how changes in SNAP are likely to affect the health of food insecure Americans. You'll hear from Sara Bleich, professor of public health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Hilary Seligman, a primary care physician and associate professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco.
This episode is a collaboration with Review of Systems, from the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School.
PhD graduate in Sociology Monica Bell’s interviews with poor youth of color in Baltimore led her to formulate the idea of “legal estrangement.” While the press focuses on a “trust gap” between black youth and the police, Monica believes that the issue is far deeper. Her interviews revealed a generation of young Americans who feel both stateless and powerless.
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-displacement-episode-3-estranged
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In this episode, we take a look at the new joint degree program between the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard Business School. Hear from Professor Thomas Eisenmann of the Harvard Business School and Professor Robert Howe and Dr. Beth Altringer of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as they discuss how this new MS/MBA program will explore the intersection of design and entrepreneurship.
Every company has an impact on health—both positive and negative—whether they realize it or not. And in this episode we’re taking an in-depth look at the links between businesses and health. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently partnered with Harvard Business School to launch a new initiative called Culture of Health (COH): A Business Leadership Imperative. The goals: encourage business leaders to prioritize the protection and promotion of health and wellbeing and understand how some companies are already contributing to health—and how to encourage others to do so.
You’ll hear from three researchers spearheading this work: Howard Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership and principal investigator of the Culture of Health program; John McDonough is professor of public health practice and a co-principal investigator; and Eileen McNeely is an instructor in the Department of Environmental Health and director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise—or SHINE.
Dr. Anne Thorndike of Massachusetts General Hospital, explains how choice architecture and improved food labeling can change our eating choices.
During World War II, many Greek people had to flee their homes and seek safety in the Middle East. Today, Syrian refugees flee violence in the Middle East, and wind up on the shores of Greece. Argyro Nicolaou, a PhD student in Comparative Literature, wants us to take a second look at the literature and art that displaced people produce, particularly in the Mediterranean. Can we find common ground between displaced Greeks in World War II, and displaced Syrians today?
Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-displacement-episode-2-shipwreck
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Almost no outsiders have visited the internally displaced persons camps in Burma where over 140,000 Rohingya Muslims are forced to live. Cresa Pugh, a PhD student in sociology, was able to visit last year. She saw a community in turmoil – but many Burmese people deny that the Rohingya are being persecuted. Cresa asks why marginalized people like the Rohingya are often blamed for their own suffering.
Full transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-displacement-episode-1-rohingya
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Halla Logadóttir, former director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University and co-founder of the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative, speaks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about the future of the Arctic region, sustainability in Iceland, and how Icelanders get their names.
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In the drama of Chinese history, the environment - and the Yellow River (Huang He) in particular - plays a major role. The river's breaching of its northern banks in the year 1048, for example, precipitated an environmental catastrophe that caused political and economic turmoil in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127 BCE).
Ling Zhang examines this catastrophe to reveal new information about China's transition from the Tang to the Song dynasty and prompt questions for how China handles its contemporary relationship with its environment.
Ling Zhang is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College, and an Associate in Research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
In this episode we're marking a major public health milestone. As of Monday, June 18, U.S. food manufacturers are banned from creating products with artificial trans fats—found in partially hydrogenated oils. This ban is the culmination of decades of research and work, and we'll explore how these fats became such a mainstay in American foods, the work to expose their risks, and the public health impact of eliminating them. You'll hear from two experts who were on the front lines of the battle against trans fats: Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Michael Jacobson, senior scientist and former executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra faced real challenges, as all U.S. orchestras did: an aging subscriber base, disinterest from younger audiences, and development of a pipeline of donors for the future. Professor Rohit Deshpande discusses how protagonist Deborah Borda positioned the orchestra for continued success, building on healthy financials, a celebrity music director (Gustavo Dudamel), the beautiful Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the development of a youth orchestra.
In the early 21st century there was hope that the success of the mumps vaccine in the United States would pave the way for the eventual elimination of the highly contagious disease. But since 2006 there's actually been a resurgence of mumps. In this week's podcast Yonatan Grad, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, explains how the waning effectiveness of the vaccine may be contributing to outbreaks of the virus.
The Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016 enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a group that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its competitors. Shelle Santana discusses how protagonists Pam Codispoti and Eileen Serra shifted their focus to retaining customers attracted by the one-time signup bonus of 100,000 reward points and on acquiring new customers now that the bonus had been reduced.
Professor of African and African American Studies discusses the life of Jane Clark, a slave who freed herself and documented the story about the Underground Railroad, with Dean of Arts And Humanities Robin Kelsey
Alumni share stories, strategies, and lessons learned from their first experience with the world of work
On Friday, June 8, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and the AARP hosted a panel discussion on voting trends and efforts to increase turnout for voters of all ages in this critical election year. The event, titled, “Engaging Voters of All Ages” featured Miles Rapoport, Ash Center Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, Nancy LeaMond, Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer, AARP; Mayor Lydia Mihalik, of Findlay, Ohio; and Mayor Levar Stoney, of Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic, President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, discusses what it’s like to lead an $8 billion medical system, the challenging roles that he’s taken on in his career, and his top leadership strategies on the Voices in Leadership program on Wednesday, June 6, 2018.
On Monday, April 30, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Institute of Politics hosted a conversation with former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. David Margalit, Executive Program Director for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, moderated.
On Monday, April 30, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation co-sponsored a JFK Jr. Forum event titled, “Full Participation: Making Every Voice Count.” Eric Holder, former United States Attorney General and current parter at Covington and Burning, spoke. Archon Fung, HKS Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, moderated.
On Wednesday, April 18, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Professor Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, for a discussion of his latest book, "A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance." Emily Rueb, a reporter for the New York Times and a 2018 Nieman Fellow, served as a respondent. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated
On Friday, May 11, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Community Speaker Series event titled, “From Online Patient Communities to OpenNotes: How Can Transparency and Technology Improve our Health?” Elena Fagotto, Transparency Policy Project Director of Research, Ash Center; Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government; and Jan Walker, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Faculty in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Co-Founder of OpenNotes, discussed using technology to enable better transparency in patient health data.
On Wednesday, April 18, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Professor Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, for a discussion of his latest book, "A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance." Emily Rueb, a reporter for the New York Times and a 2018 Nieman Fellow, served as a respondent. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated
On Monday, April 30, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation co-sponsored a JFK Jr. Forum event titled, “Full Participation: Making Every Voice Count.” Eric Holder, former United States Attorney General and current parter at Covington and Burning, spoke. Archon Fung, HKS Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, moderated.
On Friday, May 11, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Community Speaker Series event titled, “From Online Patient Communities to OpenNotes: How Can Transparency and Technology Improve our Health?” Elena Fagotto, Transparency Policy Project Director of Research, Ash Center; Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government; and Jan Walker, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Faculty in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Co-Founder of OpenNotes, discussed using technology to enable better transparency in patient health data.
On Friday, May 11, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Community Speaker Series event titled, “From Online Patient Communities to OpenNotes: How Can Transparency and Technology Improve our Health?” Elena Fagotto, Transparency Policy Project Director of Research, Ash Center; Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government; and Jan Walker, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Faculty in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Co-Founder of OpenNotes, discussed using technology to enable better transparency in patient health data.
On March 19, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies and the Faculty Co-chair of the Harvard Brazil Studies Program, author of Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse. Candelaria Garay, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; and Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University; served as respondents. Anthony Saich, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated.
On Thursday, April 19, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Democracy in Hard Places seminar titled, “Islamist Emergence and Mobilization in Central Asia: Muslim Democrats and Militant Jihadis.” Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Political Science, spoke. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, moderated.
Symptoms of bipolar disorder and depression can be all too familiar to some. Still, there is much to be learned about the brain. Listen now as Roscoe Brady, of McLean Hospital, explains his imaging research that is leading his team to better understanding how the brain differs in states of mania and wellness.
Radosław Sikorski (@sikorskiradek), former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland and a Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about the rise of right-wing nationalism, Russia, and gastrodiplomacy.
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Lindsay Ronga suffered from a severe eating disorder for seven years before eventually finding a path to successful recovery. Now, as a recovery coach, she wants to let people know that they are not alone—and there are other treatment options.
Dean Michael D. Smith moderates TED-style talks with two prominent faculty members for an audience of reunioning alumni. Lisa McGirr RF '13, Professor of History, discusses the lasting effects the Prohibition era has had on America including the rise the FBI and the federal government's power, creating the groundwork for the eventual "War on Drugs", and the start of mass incarcerations for alcohol and drug offenses. Fiery Cushman AB '03, PhD '08, Assistant Professor of Psychology, discusses our natural aversion to doing harm to each other, habit learning, and how critical thinking taught in undergraduate education plays a role into psychological research.
On Tuesday, April 3, the Ash Center and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosted a discussion titled, “The Future of Chinese Civil Society and Foreign NGOs.” Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Washington; and Wang Yongmei, a practicing lawyer at Beijing Huayi Law Firm, spoke. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated.
Ride-hailing service Careem, the “Uber of the Middle East,” experienced expansion so dramatic that it monitored its growth target every 15 minutes. Was this a fabled startup unicorn? But doubling the size of the company every six months took its toll. Professor Shikhar Ghosh discusses how the founders approached a number of critical organizational and cultural issues to keep its 4 million customers satisfied.
This week the Harvard Chan School launched the new School-wide Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE). Under the leadership of Director Gina McCarthy, C-CHANGE will use science to drive action on climate change and improve public health. It's something McCarthy is familiar with; as former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, she led the Obama administration's efforts to combat climate change. In this week's episode we sit down with McCarthy for a passionate conversation about climate change, public health, and science. McCarthy explained why scientists need to change how they communicate about climate change to convey the human health effects, shared how we all can get involved to drive environmental changes at the local level, and weighed in on the Trump Administration’s attacks on science and the mission of the EPA.
This week more than 650 students from dozens of countries graduated from the Harvard Chan School. Each graduate has their own amazing story—with powerful reasons for pursuing public health. We can’t share them all, but this week we’re sharing three stories. Alice Han, MPH '18, is calling attention to the "pandemic" of violence against women; Garang Dut, MPH '18, was inspired by his experience as a refugee to address health care inequities; and Jon Jay, DrPH '18, is using data science to improve health in cities. You’ll learn why each of these students pursued public health—and how they’re hoping to make an impact after graduation.
The science writer and Professor of Practice discusses his new book about psychedelics with the University’s Dean of Arts and Humanities.
Undergraduate Speaker Christopher Egi addresses graduates at Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust addresses graduates at Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/series/commencement-2018/.
Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis gave his address at Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/series/commencement-2018/.
Latin Orator Phoebe Lakin addresses graduates at Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre.
Class Day student speaker Jin Park addresses the Harvard College Class of 2018 on May 23, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre.
Graduate Speaker Pete Davis addresses graduates at Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/series/commencement-2018/.
Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses Harvard's Class of 2018 on Class Day, May 23, 2018.
Class Day student speaker Carolina Bretler addresses the Harvard College Class of 2018 on May 23, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre.
President Drew Gilpin Faust addresses graduating seniors at the Harvard College Class of 2018 Baccalaureate Service.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Pusey Minister Professor Jonathan L. Walton address the Harvard College Class of 2018 at the Baccalaureate service on May 22, 2018, at the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
When the first line of epileptic drugs fail to control seizures in young children, doctors turn to resective surgery. Christos Papadelis, PhD, of Children’s Hospital, explains to us the noninvasive imaging he is developing to improve these surgical outcomes.
Marcus Coleman, Jr., Acting Deputy Director of the DHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is our guest on this episode of Leader ReadyCast. He shares his leadership experience, dispels false assumptions, and points to opportunities to increase the impact of these vital organizations through programs such as FEMA’s Voluntary Agency Liaisons.
On Saturday, May 19th, Harvard Kennedy School's 2018 Reunion featured a discussion titled, “Politics, Populism, and Democracy: What’s Next in the United States and Around the World?” The talk, held in JFK Jr. Forum, included Archon Fung, Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Marshall Ganz MC/MPA 1993, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, and Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics.
Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and former fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about improving response time to outbreaks, a brief history of anti-vaxxers, and how she got into biodefense.
Margaret Macmillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and affiliate with the Belfer Center’s Applied History Project, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about how to identify good history, dead white man theory, and Canadian vs. U.S. donuts.
On Tuesday, April 17, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a seminar featuring Kishore Mahbubani, Ash Center Senior Visiting Scholar, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and author of forthcoming book, Has the West Lost It?. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated.
Hal Varian from Google/University of California at Berkeley shares his insights on potential reductions in the demand for labor caused by automation. To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Media shares insights from his book "WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us." To learn more about the Digital Initiative, check out digital.hbs.edu.
Between 2014-2016, Researchers from Ariadne Labs ran an ambitious trial to see if a simple checklist could improve childbirth care and prevent deaths in one of India’s poorest states. The randomized study of 300,000 women in Uttar Pradesh was one of the largest maternal health trials ever. Both the stakes and hopes were high; globally, 300,000 women a year die around the time of childbirth and five million newborns die as stillborn or in their first month of life.
But the results of the study were mixed—what researchers call a "null" result. While the checklist improved the quality of care during labor and delivery, it did not reduce death rates. In this week's episode, we speak to Katherine Semrau, director of the BetterBirth program at Ariadne Labs and the lead author of the study, about why that “null” result can actually teach us a great deal about strategies to improve maternal health—and the way public health research is conducted.
Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual games for mobile devices after the sensational success of its game “Candy Crush Saga.” He’s faced with the central question of whether and how to scale the company through an astronomical period of growth. Jeffrey Rayport discusses whether a single creative studio can scale to manage a portfolio of almost 200 games, when one of them is the mammoth hit Candy Crush.
No longer the stuff of science fiction, driverless cars already are being tested in numerous U.S. markets. These autonomous vehicles may revolutionize the automotive world, potentially reducing human error, reshaping transportation systems and transforming the country’s roadway infrastructure. However recent deaths linked to self-driving technology have caused concern about safety and have raised questions about whether the field is moving too quickly. In this Forum, experts reviewed current technology, regulation, realistic long-term plans, and the risks and benefits of a driverless future.
This Forum event was presented jointly with NBC News Digital on May 4, 2018.
Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.
This seminar was given on May 3, 2018 by Richard Zeckhauser, Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at HKS; and Alexander Wagner, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich. It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.
West Point Thoroughbred President and CEO Terry Finley describes what it’s like to win horse racing’s most coveted trophy—and how to get in on the action.
This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Roland Carlstedt of McLean Hospital shares with us the dynamics behind athletes’ peak moments, or their worst frailties. Hear how he hopes to improve the field of sport psychology for the betterment of treating players.
On Tuesday, April 3, the Ash Center and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosted a discussion titled, “The Future of Chinese Civil Society and Foreign NGOs.” Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Washington; and Wang Yongmei, a practicing lawyer at Beijing Huayi Law Firm, spoke. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, moderated.
On Wednesday, April 4, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Brink Lindsey & Steven Teles, authors of The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality. Larry Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School, moderated.
On Thursday, March 29th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies hosted a Democracy in Hard Places seminar titled, “The Fallow State: Liberalism Against Public Works in Latin America.” Alisha Holland, Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University and author of Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America, spoke. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazile Studies, HKS, moderated.
On Thursday, March 19th, the Ash Center and Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs hosted a book talk with Mohammed Lakhdar Ghettas, author of Algeria and the Cold War: International Relations and the Struggle for Autonomy. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, moderated.
In recent years countries across the Americas have made major improvements in health, but while life expectancy has increased and infant and maternal mortality rates have fallen, significant inequalities remain. A new commission launched by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is now examining ways to close those gaps.
Members of the commission were recently convened by David Satcher at Morehouse School of Medicine to discuss strategies for achieving health equity. As part of the gathering, Michael Marmot, chair of the commission and one of the world's foremost researchers on health inequality, delivered a keynote address: “How Do You Achieve Change?” In this week's episode, we're sharing that talk, which outlines vast disparities across the Americas—and explains how addressing the social determinants of health can help narrow disparities.
In Detroit, JPMorgan Chase is working with local economic- and workforce-development organizations, small businesses, philanthropies, and the mayor. The goal? To put in place a series of investments to help turn around the struggling city. Professor Joseph Bower and JPMorgan’s head of corporate responsibility, Peter Scher, discuss why businesses should create philanthropic programs of their own.
Tuesday, February 13th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a discussion with Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), about rising extremism from across the spectrum in the US and how it affects our politics and our society. Sarah Wald, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the Dean at Harvard Kennedy School, moderated.
Drew Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University, discusses the future challenges facing higher education, lessons learned from her tenure at Harvard University and her top leadership strategies on the Voices in Leadership program on Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
This seminar was given on April 18, 2018 by Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. It was given as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government's Business & Government Seminar Series.
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, asks how America and China can escape future conflict.
Discussed by Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History at Harvard University, and Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Chaired by Michael Szonyi, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
On Monday, April 23rd the Institute of Politics, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HKS Black Student Union, HKS Arts & Culture Caucus, Institute of Politics Politics of Race and Ethnicity (PRE) hosted a screening of Stranger Fruit, a documentary about the killing of Michael Brown, followed by a forum discussion titled, "The Movement for Black Lives: Justice for Michael Brown 4 Years Later."
The discussion featured Benjamin Crump, Attorney for families of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Stephon Clark; Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown; Jason Pollock, Documentary Filmmaker, Stranger Fruit; and Jasmine Rand Attorney for families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies; and Ashley Spillane, Senior Advisor to the Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, Roy and Lila Ash Student Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, moderated the conversation.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Robert Rush '18, Harvard College, Pforzheimer House, April 20, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Eden Girma '18, Harvard College, Dudley House, April 19, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Frances Shapiro '18, Harvard College, Cabot House, April 17, 2018.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon April 15, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
The recent scandal over Facebook’s use of personal information has shone fresh light on one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century: How can we protect our privacy when we are willingly—or unwillingly—giving vast amounts of data to companies like Facebook, Google, or Amazon. But those technology companies aren’t the only ones using personal information. This kind of data is also at the core of the work of international agencies delivering humanitarian aid. In this week’s episode we speak with Dan Scarnecchia, a researcher with the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology based at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Scarnecchia and his colleagues recently wrote the Signal Code, which represents a human rights approach to privacy and data during crises. We’ll examine how the humanitarian field is now grappling with ever-changing technology and increasing reliance on data and personal information.
UC–Berkeley Professor Calvin Morrill talks about how one school's increased security policies altered its culture and how the current debate about school security can be informed by this experience.
This seminar was given on April 5, 2018 by Joe Goffman, Executive Director of the Harvard Environmental Law Program. It was part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
This seminar was given on Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University. It was part of the Regulatory Policy Program's seminar series and was co-sponsored by the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at Harvard.
This seminar was given on January 25, 2018 by Ben Heineman, senior fellow at both Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. It was part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar series.
This seminar was given on March 8, 2018 by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Elizabeth Golberg. It was part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.
Michael Super, PhD, of the Wyss Institute, shares his story of how the spread of infectious disease throughout South Africa and London inspired him to pursue human health and combat disease.
Mental health issues are alarmingly on the rise among college students, and a serious gap exists in campus services to help them. What can be done to meet this growing need, spurred by issues of anxiety and depression, that has been described as sudden and dramatic by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health? In a spring 2017 survey by the American College Health Association, 39 percent of college students reported feeling so depressed that they were having trouble functioning, and 61 percent said that they had overwhelming anxiety in the previous 12 months. This Forum served as a call to action, asking how to develop a campus culture that prioritizes the prevention of mental health issues and the destigmatization of existing conditions. An expert panel featured leaders from academia, mental health advocacy and psychology, who spoke from a public health and health care delivery perspective. How do we support students in need; remove barriers, particularly for already marginalized students; boost communication; and promote wellness drivers, such as improved sleep, nutrition, exercise and social connectedness? And how do we gather the much-needed evidence for public health policies?
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with HuffPost on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
In this episode of Leader ReadyCast we explore the evolving role of non-governmental organizations in disaster response with Jono Anzalone, Vice President for International Services at the American Red Cross. He shares his first-hand leadership experiences in both domestic and international response efforts. Anzalone is an alumnus of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and was the recipient of our 2017 Meta-Leader of the Year Award.
Today, leaders confront declining trust and escalating risk in a time of seeming constant turbulence. In this episode of Leader ReadyCast, we discuss how leaders can prepare for and deal with these vexing challenges with Harlan Loeb, Global Chair for Crisis and Reputation Risk at Edelman, the global public relations firm. Loeb, also a professor of Crisis Litigation and the Court of Public Opinion at Northwestern University and a lecturer and Ford Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, offers concrete insights useful for leaders in any sector.
From flu to unusual threats such as Ebola to the possibility of a chemical or other unconventional attack, public health leaders sit in a unique perch in the world of emergency preparedness and response. Dr. Suzet McKinney, CEO of the Illinois Medical District, program faculty at the NPLI, and co-author of the new book, Public Health Emergency Preparedness explains that they must be familiar with a complex array of possible threats and, when an incident occurs, skillfully lead their peers, political officials, and the general public who may not fully understand the threat and its consequences.
In this episode of Leader ReadyCast we look back at the unprecedented 2017 hurricane season with Richard Serino, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, former Deputy Administrator of FEMA, and former Chief of EMS in Boston. Serino shares what the responses to Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria tell us as we look forward to 2018 and beyond. We explore lessons that should be applied as communities face more extreme weather events.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Kahunui Foster '18, Harvard College, Kirkland House, April 13, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Ciarra Jones MDiv I, Harvard Divinity School, April 12, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister in the Memorial Church, April 11, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Randolph Wentworth, Louis Bacon Senior Fellow in Environmental Leadership, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and faculty member, the Senior Executive Fellows, Harvard Kennedy School, April 10, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jane Moran MDiv III, Harvard Divinity School, April 10, 2018.
The Honorable Dr. Ted Strickland, Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former Governor of Ohio, April 8, 2018, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
CJ Anderson, Super Bowl champion for the Denver Broncos, reflects on his community activism work and shares tips for other non-profit leaders.
Billions of dollars in global health aid are distributed around the world each year. But the process by which that funding is distributed—often by large mulitlateral agencies— is frequently opaque and difficult to understand. In this week’s episode we explore the state of the global health aid landscape—and examine ways to improve transparency and make aid distribution more equitable. You’ll hear from Jesse Bump, executive director of the Takemi Program in International Health and lecturer on global health policy. Bump and several co-authors recently wrote about global health aid in a special supplement in the journal Health Policy and Planning. We spoke with him about the aid distribution process, how it can be improved—and importantly—how the countries that receive this aid can have a louder voice in the process.
On Thursday, November 16th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy hosted a seminar with Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor of Communications at Georgia State University and author of, "Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism." Ash Center Director Tony Saich moderated.
On March 21st, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School hosted a discussion with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. HKS Academic Dean Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, moderated. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, provided an introduction.
This conversation was a part of the Ash Center’s Democracy in Hard Places Initiative.
On Thursday, March 8th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Democracy in Hard Places Initiative seminar titled, “Lessons from the Democratic Transition in Mongolia: 25 Years After Revolution.” The talk featured Jargal DeFacto, economist and media personality. Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, moderated. Anthony Saich, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, provided an introduction.
On February 6th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a talk titled, “How Offshore Wind Came into Being in Massachusetts: Policy Innovation & Legislative Action.” Representative. Patricia Haddad, Speaker Pro Tempore, Massachusetts House of Representatives spoke about energy diversity policy in Massachusetts. Muriel Rouyer, Harvard Kennedy School Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, moderated.
On December 11th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Ash Center Visiting Scholar and Nesta CEO Geoff Mulgan, author of "Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World." The discussion was moderated by Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government.
Author and explorer Francis Tapon on finding the “unseen Africa” and other reflections from his five-year journey through the continent.
President Trump recently described a plan to tackle the opioid abuse crisis that includes tougher sentencing on dealers and expanding access to treatment. The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis cites the need to move ahead quickly with treatment alternatives for those addicted to opioids. Yet, recent public surveys show that Americans are confused about opioid-treatment programs, with only about half believing there is an effective, long-term addiction treatment. There are programs offered for the treatment of opioid addiction, including medicated–assisted treatment, drug rehabilitation programs, addiction support groups, and counseling. This Forum – featuring the unique perspectives of former governors and the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services — will examine the state government’s role in current and future approaches to treatment. These approaches may include educating the public about these alternatives, paying for them, regulating their performance and availability, training and certifying health professionals in their use, and developing guidelines for certification of these treatments. This is the second in a series of Governors Roundtables.
Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies, this Forum event was presented jointly with Reuters on Thursday, April 12, 2018.
Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.
Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Easter Sunday sermon April 1, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister, The Memorial Church of Harvard University, sermon on Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Timothy McCarthy '93, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education; Core Faculty/Program Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, on April 6, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Michael Robinson MDiv III, Seminarian in the Memorial Church, on April 5, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on April 4, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Julie Avis Rogers MDiv '12, Associate Pastor, Church of the Covenant, April 3, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Timothy Whelsky, Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Services, Harvard Divinity School, April 2, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Cody Sanders, American Baptist Chaplain, Harvard University, March 30, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker George Salzman PhD '87, Graduate School Chaplain, Catholic Student Center, Harvard University, March 29, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Sage Cole, Swedenborgian Chaplain, Harvard University, March 28, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speakerJanelle Ibaven, Foursquare Chaplain, Harvard University, March 27, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Kathleen Reed, Current President, Harvard Chaplains, Lutheran Campus Ministry, February 26, 2018.
In this episode, Youngme talks to Professor Frances Frei, who was hired by Uber last year to help rebuild a broken culture. Frances describes how toxic the culture at Uber actually was (01:50) and how she dealt with difficult work scenarios (08:19). She also talks about what should be done about "bad people doing bad things" (15:10) and the link between strategy and culture (22:10). Plus, she gives a behind-the-scenes look at preparing for her TED talk (25:10).
Inspired by students across the country, the gun violence prevention movement has gained new momentum. But can it last or lead to substantive change on the Congressional level? This Forum brought together experts in mental health, violence, and gun policy to discuss a variety of proposed gun violence and school safety measures. What is the status of background check laws? What is an appropriate way to discuss mental health in the conversation — without creating stigma or a chilling effect on people seeking care? What skills and training should educators have to spot warning signs and respond in crises? And, in light of restrictions around federally funded gun-related research, do policymakers have the information that they need to study these questions effectively? In this time of turbulence, our panelists looked at the evidence for — and possible unintended consequences of — today’s hotly debated measures to stop gun violence.
This Forum event was presented jointly with Reuters on April 6, 2018.
Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.
Nick Menzies, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was originally a dentist from New Zealand before he decided to pursue a broader career in public health. Tune in now to hear the importance and difficulty of mathematical modeling in treating infectious disease.
Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company, was one of Europe’s largest coal users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy services. How did it engineer that monumental change? Mark Kramer discusses how CEO Francesco Starace’s vision of sustainability drove innovation and fostered a completely new enterprise around developing and promoting renewable energy.
We often think of aging as an inevitable physical decline; as we get older our bodies break down and diseases begin to multiply. But what if that wasn't the case? What if we could change how we age and make our later years more healthy and fulfilling? That's the question we explore during our in-depth conversation with Will Mair, associate professor of genetics and complex diseases. Mair's Lab explores the basic biology of the aging process—trying to understand why we are more likely to get chronic diseases when we are old than when we are young. They seek to understand what is actually going wrong in our cells and tissues to increase the risk of age-related disease, and then work to find ways to reverse that. It's fascinating research that has the potential to change how we think about aging and age-related diseases.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Hilary Rantisi, Director of the Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, February 21, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Aravinthan D.T. Samuel '93, PhD '99, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, March 5, 2018.
In this seminar, Sabrina Karim focuses on the role women have played in peacekeeping, arguing that increasing the number of women is important, but so are gender norms within peacekeeping missions. She demonstrates that in order to make peacekeeping missions more effective at protecting civilians in war torn countries, particular attention to gender is needed.
Sabrina Karim, Assistant Professor; Caplan Faculty Fellow, Government Department, Cornell University
Stephen Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research, reflects on the evolving role of computational literacy and AI in education.
This week on ThinkResearch we conclude our conversation with Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School. Hear how Dr. Beckwith used his laboratory studies to educate others about wrongful genetic discrimination while combating the misinformation that transcended the late 20th century.
More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans report that they have experienced violence, threats or harassment because of their sexuality or gender identity. Nearly one in five LGBTQ people has avoided seeking medical care for fear of discrimination. In this Forum, experts in LGBTQ health explored health disparities and discrimination that impact the LGBTQ community. Drawing from a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, our panel looked at the impact of these experiences on physical and mental well-being — and what can be done to help.
This Forum event was presented jointly with NPR on March 21, 2018.
Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.
Jackie Jenkins-Scott, former CEO of The Dimock Community Health Center and current Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will discuss the history of the community health center movement in the United States, and the challenges she faced while running a center on the Voices in Leadership program on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
In this pilot episode, Youngme, Mihir, and Felix discuss the NRA and whether the NeverAgain movement has a chance (1:40); disagree about Facebook and the Russian influence campaign (15:08); and debate the idea of banning pornography (26:14). Plus, they offer their After Hours recommendations for the week (40:47) and reveal what movies they’re rooting for (and against) at this year’s Oscars (47:25). (Recorded March 1)
In this episode, Youngme, Mihir, and Felix try to make sense of online reviews (1:26), dish about their best/worst service experiences (15:20), and offer their thoughts on Spotify (18:20). Plus, their After Hours recommendations for the week (30:53).
In this episode, Youngme, Mihir, and Felix debate the idea of a Universal Basic Income (2:20); discuss Google and the Right to be Forgotten (14:33); and offer their After Hours picks for the week (25:02).
In this episode, Youngme talks to her friend and colleague, Professor Mike Norton, about how to spend money to create happiness. Mike's tips include spending money on experiences rather than on “stuff” (3:26), “buying time" (8:34), and investing in others (17:03). Youngme adds a few tips of her own (25:02).
On Thursday, March 1st, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies hosted a discussion about economic transformation in China with Dr. Paul G. Clifford, author of The China Paradox - At the Front Line of Economic Transformation. Jie Bai, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, served as a respondent. Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Director, moderated.
On Thursday, February 22nd, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk with Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, the authors of Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It. Archon Fung, HKS Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, moderated. Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, served as a respondent.
On Friday, February 16th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a Ash Community Speaker Series event titled, “A Framework for Change: Community Organizing in Japan and Jordan.” Kanoko Kamata MC/MPA ’12, former Ash Center Fellow and current Research Associate for the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Relations and Executive Director of Community Organizing Japan, and Rawan Zeine MC/MPA ’18, Ash Ford Foundation Mason Fellow and Founder of Ta3leelah, an organization that creates spaces for self-expression, social cohesion and community efficacy, spoke.
Both Kamata and Zeine used a common community organizing structure to create their respective organizations, which they will discuss. This structure was developed by Marshall Ganz, Harvard Senior Lecturer in Public Policy; who moderated the discussion.
The recent elections across Western Europe have been under watch due to the rise of populist movements and the appearance of a number of new political platforms outside of the traditional parties’ landscape. Something seems to be changing in the way people engage in politics and traditional parties seem to suffer of an identity crisis in many countries. Ciudadanos, Podemos, Siriza, La République en Marche, AfD, the 5 Star Movement - all these parties were nonexistent only a few years ago. In addition, political polarization seems to be growing between pro-European and anti-European parties, putting the European integration process back at the centre of the public debate and the old continent political agenda, after many decades during which Europe was a matter of "the people in Brussels”. No doubt BREXIT has shown that the process could indeed be reversible, creating a new sense of engagement that is reflected also in the discussion about strengthening the European parliamentary representation through the failed attempt to establish transnational lists for the next European Parliamentary elections.
On Wednesday, February 14th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a conversation on how political engagement is changing Europe with Ash Center faculty affiliate Muriel Rouyer and Francesco Galtieri MC/MPA ’17, political candidate with the Italian political party +Europe (More Europe).
On Thursday, November 9th, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, hosted a seminar featuring Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Scott Mainwaring, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at HKS moderated. This event was a part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Seminar Series.
On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and wounding 17 more. That shooting and the students who survived have reignited a national conversation about guns under the banner "Never Again." On March 24, people across the country will gather for the March for Our Lives to protest gun violence—and to call for changes in firearm policy. Ahead of the nationwide marches we spoke to David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and one of America’s top firearms researchers. Hemenway discussed why these student-led protests may finally be the tipping point for gun legislation in America. Plus—he explained the public health approach to preventing gun violence and shared the changes to firearms policy that could have the biggest impact on saving lives.
The Rev. Westley P. Conn, Ministry Fellow, the Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sunday sermon March 11, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to Americans, a theme that had been on the sidelines of US political discourse for decades. Donald Trump, in particular, played into the rising anti-establishment sentiment, embracing a populist platform and emphasizing his position as a Washington outsider. Why did his message resonate with voters? Rafael Di Tella discusses how many Americans felt betrayed by the educated “elite” view on globalization, and looked to Trump as a president who would put American workers and values first.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Paul Laurey, House Master, Cambridge Zen Center, March 9, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Westley Conn, Ministry Fellow, The Memorial Church, March 8, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker, Julia Ogilvy MTS '18, Harvard Divinity School, March 7, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Kevin Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Harvard Divinity School, March 6, 2018.
Morning Prayers service with speaker Aravinthan D.T. Samuel '93, PhD '99, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, March 5, 2018.