By Patrick Daniel As the Austrian-born American management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” When Eric Schmidt visited the Harvard Kennedy School last spring, everyone listened. Insights from the Executive Chairman of Google were in such high demand that students filled all three levels of the auditorium. The talk hosted by […]

By Tommy Tobin, Editor-in-Chief The Kennedy School community is full of wonderfully kind people committed to asking themselves what they can do to make their communities and this world a better place. In this issue, we’re fortunate to have Matt Clemons, Director of HKS Admissions, to welcome the newest members of our community. We are also […]

By Matt Clemons Orientation and the start of classes are always an exciting time for those of us in the Admissions Office. We travel, we read, we analyze, we deliberate, and finally pick a class we feel will learn well together. Seeing the results of our labor in the form of new students walking around […]

At the invitation of Harvard President Drew Faust, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times recently visited campus to welcome incoming students to the University. Mr. Kristof is a graduate of Harvard College and now sits on the university’s Board of Overseers.  In advance of his conversation to incoming students, The HKS Citizen had an […]

BY JACOB SHELLY When President Obama stood outside the Blue Room on September 10th to announce a major expansion of airstrikes in the Middle East, he explained that he had no other choice. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), he warned, poses a threat to the entire region — including American citizens, personnel, […]

BY JOHN BERTETTO On 23 July 2014, Isaac Lara wrote a piece that appeared in the Kennedy School Review titled Crime Square: How Advances in Criminal Justice Policy Can Improve Public Safety in New York City. Mr. Lara suggests that reductions in crime may come via Place Theory, and suggests a three-pronged approach: (1) increasing […]

BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY, PANGYRUS This article is being published in collaboration with Pangyrus.   Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for years, and something haunted him in nearly every study. Born into a small rural village in India, the Harvard behavioral economist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship—commonly known as a “genius grant”—was inherently skeptical of […]

Sergio – tell us in your own words about what you do here at HKS?  My official title here at HKS is “Enrollment Services Customer Service Specialist”. Enrollment Services encompasses the Admissions Office, the Registrar’s Office and the Student Financial Services Office, as such I am familiar with many aspects of all of those departments. What […]

BUSS operates to ensure supplies do not go wasted, and schools in need have the resources required to best serve their students. What we do: We do this by soliciting supplies from affluent schools and businesses and recycling those supplies by transporting them to schools with fewer resources. It’s pretty simple. We find schools and businesses in […]

I am the Chair of Reach Out and Read’s Young Literacy Council (YLC) (effectively a junior board). The YLC is a group of young professionals who are passionate about the importance of early literacy and the mission of Reach Out and Read. Our goal is to increase awareness about Reach Out and Read, connect people […]

This Fall, the Kennedy School curriculum will feature a new course called Economic Justice, centering on wealth and income inequality.  This new course will feature the work of Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, Amartya Sen, and Michael Sandel along with classical works from Smith, Keynes, and Rawls. The Citizen caught up with Dr. Chris Robichaud, Lecturer in […]

By Thomas S. Momiyama, SEF ‘1981 I read one of the most refreshing, astute, and relevant reflections on the modern view of leadership by Christopher H. Johnson, a retired U.S. Navy captain recently in the  Naval War College Review. Johnson observed that the United States “does not understand the meaning of the word” leadership and […]