The Citizen

By Ran Wei As this academic year is coming to an end, the Citizen invites Professor Joseph Nye and Professor Graham Allison, both former deans of HKS, to offer their thoughts on global affairs. Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Kennedy School. In 2004, he published Soft […]

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 […]

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 […]

What did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? I have taken a rather indirect path to the Kennedy School. Unlike many of my more focused classmates, I spent my youth “playing.” Not much of that story would be appropriate for a family publication like the Citizen! While many of you are aware of the fact that I spent […]

What did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? I am a serial entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded four technology startups across multiple industries. My latest company is called Oh My Green! (www.ohmygreen.com), a purveyor of taste-tested, healthy, organic, and non-GMO snacks for individuals, universities, and corporations. We tend to work with and […]