Labor projections indicate that over the next decade, a gap of more than a million jobs requiring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills will develop in the United States. A million more workers with STEM skills than our educational system is on track to prepare will be needed (PCAST 2012). At the same time, […]

BY DAN MCCONNELL As President Obama made the case for military action in Syria Sunday, he was clear that such actions would be proportional in scope, reiterating, “What we are envisioning is something limited.” Now that the President has placed the onus for a decision on the legislature, it is at least as important for […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits and conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  To see all the Snapshots, follow this link. Jieun Baek is an MPP2 […]

Alexandra Stanek (MPP/HBS MBA ’15), Dan Bowles (MPP/HBS MBA ’15) and Nadir Vissanjy (MPP/Sloan MBA ’15) at the start of the 2013 Water to Wine Half-Marathon in Healdsburg, California. All three achieved personal records in the race. After running 13.1 miles, the three of them, along with a dozen of HKS students and alums, went […]

BY JOSH RUDOLPH  Over the summer, US bank regulators announced that the eight largest US banks will have to maintain leverage ratios[1] (equity / total assets) of at least 5% for their holding companies and 6% for their depository institutions. This new supplement to the international standard of 3% is a step in the right direction, but […]

Sara Greenberg spent the summer in Tel Aviv training and playing with Israel’s Women’s National Lacrosse Team. The team played in the World Cup in Oshawa, Ontario in mid-July, marking Israel’s inaugural appearance on the global lacrosse stage. The team finished in the top eight.  While in Israel, Greenberg also worked for a social finance start-up, Social […]

This summer, HKS students are traveling to all corners of the world to work on policymaking, advise nonprofits and conduct research. The ‘Summer Snapshots’ is a portrait of these experiences in which students — in their own words — share their stories, musings and reflections.  To see all the Snapshots, follow this link. Andrea Titus spent the summer […]

After presiding over economic decline marked by hyperinflation which brought Zimbabwe to its knees, president Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party have emerged as victors in the recent harmonized elections in Zimbabwe. Mugabe got 61% of the vote and his ZANU-PF party won 158 of the 210 parliament seats, giving […]

There is an ongoing campaign of terror in Nigeria. Since July 2009, Boko Haram, an extremist jihadist group from northern Nigeria, has killed over 3,500 people in the wake of an Islamic insurgency, with the death toll rising almost on a daily basis. The group has carried out frequent gun attacks and bombings, in some […]

I recently read Dambisa Moyo’s Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World. The book is a thorough review of the resource landscape – from water to land to energy, and what China’s drive to acquire these means for the West and the developing world including Africa. Moyo conducts due diligence on […]

Q: Where are you from? A: Northridge, California. We’re famous for the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. That’s when I got my big scar on my forehead. I was 6 years old, and a bookshelf fell on me, and I got 39 stiches that morning. I was a very popular girl in school for a few weeks […]

By The Citizen Staff The 2012-2013 academic year was marked by both exciting and tragic events. Internally, students pushed for greater diversity on campus, called on Harvard to invest its endowment more sustainably and celebrated the news of a campus renovation. Externally, the campus played an active role in the presidential elections, faculty were quoted […]