News
May 2010
Leading Social Change: Esther Hsu
Esther Hsu, an MPA-MBA candidate ('10) at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School and Reynolds Foundation Fellow, is profiled for the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum.
April 2010
Max Anderson Publishes Book: The MBA Oath
Max Anderson, Reynolds alum 08-09, published a book called The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders on April 29, 2010. Upon graduating from the HBS/HKS joint degree program last year, he helped launch an initiative to restore trust in business. He led the creation of the MBA Oath, a "Hippocratic oath for managers," to set a standard for ethical and responsible leadership in business.
April 2010
Willy Foote of Root Capital Visits
Willy Foote joined the Reynolds Fellows onApril 1st to talk about his work with Root Capital, anorganization that provides loans to small businesses in Latin America and Africa. The loans primarily target enterprises in theagricultural sector that employ environmentally sustainable practices.
March 2010
Last week the Reynolds Foundation Fellows from Harvard and New York Universitywere treated to the experience of a lifetime when they participated in a summithosted by Catherine and Wayne Reynolds in Washington, D.C. to focus on the intersectionof policy making and social entrepreneurship that the Obama administration haschampioned.
December 2009
Chancellor Joel Klein on Education Reform
Watch Chancellor Klein's December 10th presentation about school reform on the CPL YouTube site.
December 2009
From One to Many - Feature Article about Fellow Nathaniel Dunigan
"Nathaniel Dunigan never could have predicted that being given theopportunity to travel to Uganda for one month would forever alter thecourse of his future. But, it did." Read more about Reynolds Fellow Dunigan's experience in this Harvard Graduate School of Education feature story.
November 2009
Epstein: My Path to the Reynolds Fellows
Amanda Epstein,a 2009 Reynolds Foundation Fellow, describes her experiences in Kenya prior to accepting the Reynolds Fellowship.
November 2009
Dunigan: My Path to the Reynolds Fellows
Nathaniel Dunigan, a 2009 Reynolds Foundation Fellow, shares his experience in Uganda. He says, "I sold my car and my belongings, bought an airplane ticket, and put the entire, meager balance of $3,500 in my backpack. I was on my way to Uganda, East Africa..."
November 2009
Retreat Welcomes New Fellows in Style – and Substance
Ona windy weekend in September, the Center for Public Leadership welcomedthe 2009-10 class of Fellows with wisdom, inspiration and humor at itsAll-Fellows Retreat in Chatham, Mass.
November 2009
Reflections on the 2009 International Achievement Summit
The annual International Achievement Summit, sponsored by the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, brings together luminaries from every field and a select group of wildly fortunate graduate students for inspiration, learning, and reflection.
June 2009
Reynolds Fellow Laura Bacon Named White House Fellow
Bacon has been selected a 2009-2010 White House Fellow. She is one of three HKS alums in this year's cohort. We are so proud!
May 2009
In April I had the opportunity to attend the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans, entitled Dare to Dream, Dare to Do.The summit brings together social entrepreneurs from all over NorthAmerica to network, hone their skills, and find inspiration amongothers who devote themselves to social causes through their work.
September 2008
Reynolds alum reports on ServiceNation Summit
ServiceNationopened with back-to-back interviews with John McCain and Barack Obama.Prior to the main event a number of luminaries spoke eloquently ofpublic service. Many invoked the wisdom of historical figures. I wasespecially struck by the presentation of New York Governor DavidPaterson, who is blind and had memorized his remarks.
August 2008
I Know What You Blogged Last Summer
In addition to this piece, visit the NGK fellowship pagefor a complete list of participating students and their correspondingblogs. Together, they provide as much of an unfiltered view of foreignlands and cultures, as they do inspire us all to join these peaceefforts!
June 2008
Julian Atim HSPH '08 Highlighted in Harvard Public Health Now
Several years ago, when many people were fleeing Northern Uganda because of a long, armed conflict, Julian Atim headed straight for that part of her country.
May 2008
5 Questions with… Illac Diaz
Born in the Philippines, Illac Diaz is a mid-career MPA student andReynolds Foundation Fellow at HKS, a member of the Young Global Leadersprogram of the World Economic Forum, and the 2006 winner of the $100Kfirst prize in social enterprise track of MIT’s business plancompetition.
November 2006
In Praise of the Loosely Connected Network
Authors and social entrepreneurs Rod Beckstrom and Ori Brafman recently spoke to audiences at the Kennedy School and Business School about their book The Starfish and The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, which describes how decentralization can help movements, organizations, and businesses be more effective.
November 2006
Stacey Childress: How to Manage Urban School Districts
In a new collaboration with Allan Grossman and Richard Elmore, Stacy Childress—faculty adviser to the Reynolds Foundation Fellows and a lecturer and senior researcher at the Harvard Business School—explores a conundrum in the world of education reform: although school districts have produced individual schools that show huge boost in performance, none have yet developed a method to attain system-wide results.
Our time as fellows in Los Angeles was much more than just a trip. It would be more aptly called “a grand tour of Los Angeles social enterprise” or, better yet, “an opportunity of a lifetime.” Each of us was awe-struck by the diversity of work being carried out every day within the vast city.
May 2006
Jill Baumgartner Selected to Participate in First Global Leaders for a Better Tomorrow Expedition
This April, Reynolds Foundation Fellow Jill Baumgartner was selected to participate in Outward Bound International’s first Global Leaders for a Better Tomorrow expedition. This program has been developed to build cross-border understanding, compassion and collaboration among emerging leaders.
Mr. Bornstein joined the Reynolds Foundation Fellows to discuss his experiences working with social entrepreneurs and enterprises around the world. In his conversation with the students, Mr. Bornstein discussed the various challenges the Fellows will face as the next generation of innovators of social change and as leaders in the public arena.
May 2006
David Rubenstein on Leadership
Mr. Rubenstein spoke disarmingly, wittily and brilliantly about his life and thoughts on leadership: his goals and desires and how the evolved over time, his experiences in the Carter White House detailing how individuals were able to have far-reaching impact, and his thoughts on the evolution of the risk-capital industry and its implications for global policy.
Geoffrey Canada is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization that uses a comprehensive community development strategy to improve the opportunities available to children living in Harlem.
April 2006
Announcing the 2006-07 Fellows
The Harvard University Reynolds Foundation Fellowships selection committee has chosen 16 new fellows for the 2006–07 academic year:
With great enthusiasm and excitement, Pamela Hartigan of the Schwab Foundation provided valuable insight into the evolution of social entrepreneurship. She identified SE as a powerful tool to address social problems in an innovative, sustainable, and effective way.
April 2006
Dean Kamen Riding the Segway
On April 14th the Reynolds Fellows had the opportunity to take a field trip to meet Dean Kamen and tour Deka Research laboratories. We gathered around a discussion table and had an exciting discussion with Dean Kamen in which he articulated the past history of Deka Research and his vision for the future.
President Summers attended an intimate discussion with fellows shortly after his announcement to step down as President of Harvard. In his opening remarks, Summers imparted some general advice gathered over his years of public service, which he summarized in five main points:
Dr. Hyman, Provost of Harvard University, since 2001, and professor of Neurobiology spent time discussing the current state of scientific research in the US. Dr. Hyman’s academic path, according to him, has not been unlike the typical career of an academician.
Joel Klein has been the Chancellor of New York City Public Schools since 2002, making him one of the most influential educational leaders in the United States. New York City’s public school district is the largest in the country, serving over 1.1 million students through over 1300 different schools. He is the first New York City Chancellor to serve under a mayor with complete control over the public school system and has been at the forefront of system wide reforms in curriculum, governance, management structures, and learning standards.
Eric Schwarz, President of Citizen Schools, co-founded the organization with Managing Director, Ned Rimer, in 1995. Since its founding, Citizen Schools has worked to prepare students to become future leaders by teaching them practical skills, and by connecting them with working professionals in a variety of fields.
Bill Drayton, CEO and Founder of Ashoka, joined a panel of three student social entrepreneurs: Rebecca Hamilton, Travis Bradford, and Reynolds Foundation Fellow Jason Langheier, for a discussion on social change. After providing some background on the work that Ashoka does with social entrepreneurs internationally, Mr. Drayton asked the panelists to describe their current experiences as social entrepreneurs.
Each year one of the highlights of the event is the “Pitch for Change” competition. This business plan pitch competition is highly competitive. This year’s winner was Reynolds Foundation Fellow Robert Lucas and team who pitched “teachforward.org.” Runner up was “A Penny Saved” by Reynolds Foundation Fellows Stacie Gamble and Colleen Gross. In addition, fellows Catherine Casey and Erika Strand were finalists. Overall, an impressive showing by the inaugural fellows!
"Getting the right people in your organization should be your top priority as an organizational leader—it’s even more important than crafting a clear definition of the organization’s mission," said management scholar and best-selling author Jim Collins, at a gathering of Zuckerman and Reynolds Foundation Fellows last month. Companies that manage to ratchet up their performance from good to great tend to nail down the “who” part first, he explained; from there, it’s easier to decide upon the “what” part. Emily Bolon, HBS 2006.