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By Nate Mackinnon, Contributor Every year, men around the world come together in an expression of solidarity by growing out the hair on their upper lip. The mustache, also known as a “mo”, typically a staple of decades past, is now the worldwide symbol for men’s health thanks to the organization called “Movember”. Movember has […]

By Li Qi Li Qi, a second-year MPA student, recently interviewed Roger Servison, President of Strategic New Business Development of Fidelity Investments, one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world. Fidelity now has over $4.0 trillion in assets under administration and over $1.8 trillion of assets under management. Mr. Servison was the 301st […]

By Wei Ran According to media reports, comedian Jimmy Kimmel has drawn ire from offended Asian Americans for a skit on his late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” which jokingly suggested that Americans should deal with their debt crisis by “killing everyone in China.” (link to the video: http://widgets.scmp.com/video/video_iframe.php?id=%20576491&movideo_m=576491 The clip in question, aired on […]

Every day brings a wealth of extraordinary and talented names to the School to the point where it almost becomes common place to rub shoulders with presidents, statesmen and the great political thinkers of our age. But while understandably impressive it would be a grave mistake to ignore the experience and gifts that our fellow […]

By Denise Linn, MPP’15 Correspondent Armed with laptops, coffee and a shared sense of purpose, a diverse collection of students and community members gathered in Starr Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 2 for the Harvard Kennedy School’s first Datafest. The event was hosted by the Tech4Change PIC and was one of many simultaneous hack-a-thons happening around […]

By Sabreen Dogar October 30, 2013: What a memorable day! In addition to the Red Sox clinching the World Series and an epic KSSG-sponsored Halloween party at Club Royale, a handful of lucky HKS students got the chance of a lifetime to go see the President of the United States in person at historic Faneuil […]

BY ADRIENNE MURPHY Anyone who follows recent political news knows that Texans like to talk. First, there was the stylish, hot-pink Mizuno sporting Wendy Davis and her fervent defense of abortion rights. Then came the fiery, Dr. Seuss-quoting Ted Cruz and his passionate opposition to Obamacare. Thirty-two hours and hundreds of thousands of words later, […]

By Will Hickey The time has come for sovereign wealth funds to produce some meaningful value. Now conservatively valued at around 6 trillion dollars, sovereign wealth funds, or SWFs, are massive state-owned investment vehicles of stocks, bonds, property, precious metals and other financial instruments, including private equity. They are overwhelmingly funded through oil and gas […]

Educational Equity: Where We Are and Where We Need To Be Since 2001, Congressman Mike Honda has represented the 17th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives. His district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of technology innovation and the leading region for the development of the technologies of tomorrow. First as a […]

On October 14, the Mo Ibrahim Prize Committee announced, for the second year in a row, that it had not found anyone to whom to award its Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The Prize is given to a recently-retired Executive Head of State or Government in Africa who satisfies the criteria of having been […]

Get Off the Sidelines and Get into the Game: An Interview with Senator Mazie Hirono Born in Fukushima, Japan, Mazie K. Hirono was nearly eight years old when her mother brought her and her older brother to Hawaii to escape an abusive husband and seek a better life. Hirono served in the Hawaii House of […]

Multicultural Cooking: An Interview with Anita Lo Anita Lo, chef and owner of Annisa, is one of the most respected chefs in the country, earning numerous accolades for her inventive contemporary American cuisine. In 2000, Lo opened Annisa, an intimate restaurant in Greenwich Village. In June 2009, a fire destroyed the restaurant. While plans for […]