Join the Crisis Management PIC and the Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL) for a discussion with PCL Senior Fellow Joseph Pfeifer, FDNY Chief of Counterterrorism and Emergency Preparedness (retired), founding director of FDNY's Center for Terrorism and Preparedness, and on-scene commander during 9/11 and multiple other disasters. Chief Pfeifer will provide a presentation on how 9/11 first responders dealt with the multiple intersecting components of the crisis. He will then lead a group discussion on the skills needed for crisis leadership in today’s world of complex disasters.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a discussion with Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, author of Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
Join the Ash Center for a workshop led by Technology and Democracy Fellow Zach Graves, and grow your understanding of recent efforts to modernize and strengthen Congress. This workshop will include interactive, hands-on exercises. Come prepared to engage, not just to listen!
Congress is supposed to be the democratically accountable, and most powerful, of the three branches of the federal government...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
From 1979-2015, thousands of Chinese parents abandoned their daughters under China’s “one child” policy, creating one of the largest pools of internationally adoptable children in world history. In this session, Jenna Cook, Harvard Sociology PhD candidate, will report on her working paper, supported by a research grant from the Ash Center, which draws on ethnographic...
Exploring the varied experiences within armed groups and after leaving war
Join us for an HKS Gender and Security Seminar Series event featuring Theresia Thylin, PhD Candidate in the Essex University (UK) Department of Sociology and a Gender and Humanitarian Specialist at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in New York. Chelsea Green, PhD candidate in the Harvard Department of Government,...
Students and fellows at Harvard and surrounding universities are invited to apply for a spring semester study group with Ash Center Fellow Deepti Doshi, Director of Community Partnerships at Facebook, MC/MPA '12; and Mo Safdari, former Program Manager for Election Integrity at Facebook, MBA/MPP.
Building constructive civic discourse on social media is an urgent challenge. This reading group will...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for an Innovation Roundtable event with Timo Meynhardt, University of St. Gallen. Meynhardt will discuss Public Value: Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice, a new book he co-authors with Mark Moore,Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations, HKS. Public Value is an edited volume that includes theoretical developments, analytic frameworks, and case studies advancing the use of public value concepts in practice among scholars and practitioners from Europe and around the world.
Ash Center, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Room 226
Join Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows to develop your digital toolkit. This is a hands-on workshop; participants are expected to arrive ready to learn and practice a new skill.
Please note: The location of this event has changed from Wexner 436 to the Ash Center, Room 226, located at 124 Mt. Auburn, Suite 200N.
This workshop will be led by Devin Murphy, an Ash Center...
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School
When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions after WTO entry fail to constrain the subsequent rise of more interventionist developmental policies? What explains the timing of these non-linear policy trajectories? This analysis disaggregates the Chinese central state and unpacks the divergent strategies adopted by competing agencies in response to WTO entry.
Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, will explain why the timing of this divergence turns on the durability of WTO commitments and the political relationship between China’s party and its state. She will argue that what emerged was an intensified dualism in Chinese economic governance, with intensified market competition promoted by one set of central agencies, yet a more consolidated industrial policy promoted by rival agencies. Tony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, will moderate. ... Read more about Disaggregating “China, Inc” - Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
434 AB, Wexner Building, Floor 4, Harvard Kennedy School
Join the Ash Center and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government for a seminar featuring Professor Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016).