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Research and Scholarship
May 15, 2023 | | | | | |
FROM THE DIRECTORS' DESKS |
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As the spring semester comes to a close, we celebrate an exciting year of growth and innovation in our CPL community.
Over 370 students from across Harvard, along with more than 15 HKS faculty and staff, engaged in CPL’s new line-up of co-curricular programming this semester. Offerings included the science of wellbeing, philanthropy in the public sector, climate leadership, and leadership, negotiation, and conflict management.
This spring, our Alumni Council met at CPL to plan for the fall 2023 alumni fellows reunion and to assist us, more broadly, in strengthening our community of current and former fellows. As one shining example, the CPL Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellowship alumni held a reunion in the United Arab Emirates, where they launched the first Harvard Kennedy School alumni association in the Arab region.
We were honored to welcome four Hauser Leaders to CPL this spring, including the former governor of Pueblo de Cochití, Regis Pecos. Governor Pecos is the first Native American leader in practice to join us at CPL in partnership with the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Looking forward, we are grateful to the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development for enabling us to learn from and be inspired by more Native American leaders on campus.
We are enthusiastically deepening our collaborations with other centers, including the Bloomberg Center for Cities. Please read more below about two of our joint faculty affiliates, Elizabeth Linos and Linda Bilmes, who are serving leaders in government through their research and teaching.
Finally, we wish to extend a special thanks for the hard work and innovation of the CPL staff. We reflected during the final staff meeting of the semester on the importance of each person’s contributions—ranging from building new internal systems and capabilities to persistence in the face of barriers to attention to excellence and acts of kindness.
We wish you all a regenerative summer and look forward to reconvening as the days get cooler in Cambridge for another exciting year!
In community,
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Hannah and Deval
Co-Directors, Center for Public Leadership | | | | |
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STUDENTS |
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This spring, CPL's Public Leadership Co-Curricular Program hosted 17 programs that attracted students from twelve Harvard schools including Harvard Business School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. The students, which included over 30% of the HKS population, participated in peer and reflection cohorts, workshops, and intensives, each designed to provide unique insights, experiences, and opportunities to develop their leadership skills. Each program was moderated by a CPL faculty or staff member with expertise in the area of study. | | | | | |
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Carlo DeMaria, mayor of Everett, MA, and his staff wearing virtual reality headsets to experience a model for redeveloping a 97-acre toxic parcel in the city during a presentation by students in CPL affiliate Linda Bilmes's MLD-412 "Greater Boston Applied Field Lab: Advanced Budgeting, Financial Management and Operations" course. | | | | |
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The team's recommendations will allow us to reduce our subsidy of the community center, while still maintaining the same level of service and support for our community. We were impressed by the depth of their research, their attention to detail, and their ability to work collaboratively as a team. Their final report was clear, concise, and easy to understand, making it accessible for all stakeholders. | |
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— Abudllah H. Hamoud, Mayor of Dearborn, MI on the city's experience working with a team of HKS students, including CPL Zuckerman Fellow Ibriham Bharmal MPP/JD '25, in MLD-412. | | | | |
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LEADERS IN PRACTICE
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Regis Pecos is the former governor of Pueblo de Cochití and co-founder and co-director of The Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian School, a cultural community-based organization that develops solution-oriented leader s to address critical policy issues that impact Native tribes of New Mexico.
During his time as a Hauser Leader at CPL, Pecos hosted a roundtable discussion with Native and non-Native students focused on the intersection of US education policy and American Indian leadership, where they explored efforts to protect and advance cultural touchstones for Indigenous communities.
A citizen of Pueblo de Cochití, Pecos is the first Native American leader in practice at CPL. Pecos’s time at HKS was co-sponsored by the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and, while on campus, he celebrated the endowment of the project, which sits at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The project will introduce a new professorship, programming initiatives, and a senior fellowship at HKS, all focused on enhancing the project’s role in practical research, teaching, leadership development, and policy analysis with Native communities. | | | | |
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FROM OUR FACULTY |
It’s Not Your Fault: Reducing Stigma Increases Take-up of Government Programs
Elizabeth Linos
Through two field experiments with over 100,000 participants and two subsequent online experiments, CPL affiliate Elizabeth Linos and Jessica Lasky-Fink delve into the complex issue of stigma as a barrier to accessing safety net programs by examining its role in the take-up of rental assistance.
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