Give mom a different kind of gift this Mother’s Day. Give her the gift of professional respect. No, really. What mothers do at home creates economic outputs that are chronically undervalued by employers and society. We could all do more to put that right. By Alyson Gounden Rock, MC/MPA 2014 This Mother’s Day, we can […]

By Simon R. Bone Bitcoin is the one of the fastest growing hi-tech crazes and the “cryptocurrency “ has governments running scared. Harvard is in the thick of the action has and is holding Bitcoin events up and down Cambridge. MIT has even recently announced it will give $100 in bitcoin to all its students. […]

By Simon R. Bone Lucas Papademos, the former Vice President of European Central Bank and ex-Prime Minister of Greece was hosted two weeks ago in an exclusive roundtable discussion about the future of the Eurozone by the European Club of Harvard Kennedy School. Mr. Papademos referred during his speech to the progress that Eurozone countries […]

Current executive chairman of Google and previous a campaign advisor and major donor to Barack Obama Eric Schmidt spoke at the Forum last Thursday in an talk on  Innovation and Leadership in the New Digital Age.

The staff of The Citizen would like to congratulate MPP Tommy Tobin who has been awarded the position of  Editor-In-Chief of the paper for the next Academic Year. The current EIC would like to assure Tommy that the half a million dollars in expense claims from this year marked as “miscellaneous fancy cocktails” is almost […]

By Simon R. Bone Two teams involving HKs students made it through the to the final of the President’s Challenge. Held on Thursday night at the HBS I-Lab. The challenge encourages students from across Harvard to collaborate and propose innovative solutions to create impact on global issues. One Summit lead by HKs student Adam La […]

By Tommy Tobin On April 25th, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) excited the John F. Kennedy Forum with wide-ranging comments from the Fourth Amendment to gun control. The energy in the room was palpable with the packed house of students compounding the history between Senator Paul and the event’s host, Trey Grayson. In Trey Grayson’s final […]

By Simon R. Bone Douglas Alexander  the UK Labour Party’s Shadow Foreign Secretary (and a 2013 Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project) recently visited HKS. At an exclusive breakfast with the HKS European Club he shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics from the referendum on Scottish Independence to the […]

BY BALE DALTON In the United States we are gearing up for another electoral season. Even though we won’t be electing a new president in 2014, candidates for Congress as well as state and local positions are girding themselves for political combat, convening staff for strategy sessions in war rooms and readying salvos for the […]

For all the calls for change in U.S. politics, the most likely scenario for the 2016 presidential election presents two familiar family names: Clinton vs. Bush. For a country supposedly based on meritocracy, this is a curious turn of events.  It is also bewildering how no one questions the legitimacy of this postulation as nepotism.  […]

In this installment of “Inside the Middle East: Q&A,” Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, discusses the challenges to providing humanitarian assistance in Syria, the action (and inaction) of the UN Security Council in the crisis, and the politicization of aid. You can watch the interview, conducted by Jennifer Quigley-Jones, […]

We came to policy school to do more and to do better. We gravitated to Harvard Kennedy School, in part, because of its explicit mission to “train exceptional public leaders and generate the ideas that provide solutions to our most challenging public problems.” As aspiring policy leaders, we recognized that our ability to diagnose and […]