1. Why did you apply to the Kennedy School? Researching, teaching, advocating and implementing issues regarding education and poverty  through Teach For India, my own social enterprise called “Gurukul” (A chain of low cost schools and colleges in rural India), as an advisor to the Supreme Court of India and the National Advisory Council of India, […]

By Simon Bone, Editor-in-Chief One of the things about running a newspaper like The Citizen is that it quickly becomes apparent that while we attend a well-regarded school that eschews all polices and concepts of discrimination – when it comes to seeking volunteers for covering stories the Fourth Estate has firmly established winners and losers. […]

Dear Piers How the devil are you? What happened with your court-case in the end? Who’d have thought nuns could be so litigious. Things here are grand now that I’ve got over that little problem of thinking that “zip-code” meant to take your trousers down. I hear that little story even made it back all […]

Jieun Baek is a second-year MPP student. A Los Angeles native, Baek graduated from Harvard College in 2009, and then worked at Google for several years before coming to the Kennedy School. I spent the bulk of my summer learning about the Turkish economy in a rotational internship in Ankara. Several classmates and I had […]

By Alsherif Wahdan Alsherif Wahdan, a Mid-Career MPA student and an investment banker from Egypt, opines on the bidding system at HKS. While voicing support for the mechanism, he also offers his intriguing insights on how it can be adjusted and, therefore, be improved. The Louvre Syndrome is when excited tourists leave the famous museum […]

This summer, Fernando Berdion del Valle interned at a start-up incubator in Mexico City called Venture Institute. He followed a class of entrepreneurs and researched public-private partnerships between incubators in Mexico and the federal agency dedicated to supporting them, Institututo Nacional del Emprendedor (INADEM). You can follow him on his blog Verano Startupero. At first […]

By Jeff Kushner New and returning Kennedy School students have been greeted this semester by significant overcrowding throughout the Kennedy School, in classrooms as well as public spaces. On Friday the 20th, a number of Mid-Career MPA students voiced their concerns to the administration. During the meeting, students cited incidents of pushing and shoving, long […]

By Simon Bone, Editor-in-Chief Lazily crossing the Charles on a briskly cutting morn as translucent currents ebb and flow beneath. Drinking drenched in late sunshine in a Cambridge terrace. Engulfed by books and the distant low chatter of night-time fluorescent lighting. Congratulations. You made it. The full realisation has still to sink in. Your friends […]

President         Jieun Baek, MPP2 (56%) Shashank Shukla, MC MPA (44%) Executive Vice President        Simon R. Bone, MC MPA (36%) Maggie Williams, MPP2 (64%) VP International Student Affairs Mario Jaimes, MPA1 (59%) Lance Li, MPP1 (41%)   VP Technology and Operations          Shradha Balakrishnan, MPA2 (61%) George Xue, MC MPA (39%)   The […]

By Tim Purinton, Staff Writer United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack failed to show at the Kennedy School on Wednesday night for a planned talk on ‘Rural Innovation’ due to the federal government shutdown. Not one to leave an audience hanging, the Institute of Politics (IOP) hustled together a panel of Kennedy School experts to […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer Responding to criticism of a dissertation written by a former PhD student on the IQs of immigrants, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Richard Zeckhauser defended the thesis, saying the “empirical work was careful.” “None of his advisors would have accepted his thesis had he thought that his empirical work was tilted or […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer The heads of state of Colombia and Norway spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday night. Both came to Cambridge following the 61st proceedings of the General Assembly of the United Nations last week in New York. For Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, it was a bit of […]