Interested in Shaping the Future?
Then what about leadership, innovation, and technology?
Join your peers to explore your options for the Harvard 07-08 Academic Year.
Public leaders and institutions play a critical role in society's most important and difficult problems: defense, physical and economic security, social harmony, and legitimacy in resolving controversial issues of governance. While they typically spend most of their time using existing authority to manage previously developed routines, their most critical choices involve innovation: developing new ways to create value, often in response to newly emerging needs.
Successful leaders know that the innovations being enabled by information technology are too complex and strategically important to be safely delegated to specialists. With citizens demanding service 24 hours per day, with economic and political pressures requiring the redesign and reallocation of production responsibilities for healthcare, education, and homeland security, and with the well-demonstrated power of a "world is flat" environment for sourcing anywhere, innovation-oriented leadership has become essential for institutional and societal responsiveness and survival.
This makes leading and managing innovation key, and especially the tech-enabled innovations that are arguably the most important force behind productivity growth, changes in the distribution of income, and the transparency required for democratic accountability and legitimacy.
To explore opportunities on these issues at the KSG and beyond this year, please join us September 6 in the Kennedy School’s Bell Hall between 1 and 3 p.m. We'll cover:
- Major multi-day workshops and seminars bringing global leaders to the School
- Reading and Research opportunities to work closely with faculty on case studies and research papers
- Degree program courses at the KSG, HBS, and HGSE with faculty including:
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Marshall Ganz, KSG
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Steve Goldsmith, KSG
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Calestous Juma, KSG
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Elaine Kamarck, KSG
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David Lazer, KSG
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Andrew McAfee, HBS
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Jerry Mechling, KSG
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Malcolm Sparrow, KSG
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Martha Stone Wiske, HGSE
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Jonathan Zittrain, HLS
Location: Bell Hall, Belfer Building, KSG
Refreshments to be served!
September 6, 2007 1:00 – 3:00pm