Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government,is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy,public administration,and international development,four doctoral degrees,and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics,government,international affairs,and economics. As of 2021,HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA),a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.
Martin Thomas Meehan is an American academic administrator,politician,and attorney. Since July 2015,Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
The Ripon Society is an American center-right Republican public policy organization and think tank based in Washington,D.C. It publishes The Ripon Forum,the U.S.'s longest running Republican thought and opinion journal,as well as The Ripon Advance, a daily news publication.
Kevin Hagan White was an American politician best known for serving as the mayor of Boston for four terms from 1968 to 1984. He was first elected to the office at the age of 38. He presided as mayor during racially turbulent years in the late 1960s and 1970s,and the start of desegregation of schools via court-ordered busing of school children in Boston. White won the mayoral office in the 1967 general election in a hard-fought campaign opposing the anti-busing and anti-desegregation Boston School Committee member Louise Day Hicks. Earlier he had been elected Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1960 at the age of 31,and he resigned from that office after his election as Mayor.
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010,having been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. From 1985 to 1989,he chaired the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) is an academic research center at Harvard University that provides teaching,research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government,nonprofits,and business. The center works to prepare its students to exercise leadership in a world responding to a rapidly expanding array of economic,political,and social challenges. Located at Harvard Kennedy School,CPL was established in 2000 through a gift from the Wexner Foundation.
Benjamin Langer Ginsberg is an American lawyer. He is most well known for his work representing the Republican Party and its political campaigns,candidates,members of Congress and state legislatures and governors,as well as corporations,trade associations,businesses,and individuals participating in the political process.
The 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994. Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Weld won reelection as Governor of Massachusetts by the largest margin in state history. As of 2023,this is the most recent election in which Boston,Somerville,Lawrence,Chelsea,Brookline,Northampton,Provincetown,Monterey,Great Barrington,Ashfield,Williamstown,Williamsburg,Shelburne,Sunderland,and Pelham voted for the Republican candidate for governor.
Ronald Heifetz is an academic and author. He is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership,Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University,and co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates.
Curtis Guild Jr. was an American journalist,soldier,diplomat and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 43rd Governor of Massachusetts,serving from 1906 to 1909. Prior to his election as governor,Guild served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia,seeing active duty in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. He was publisher of the Boston Commercial Bulletin,a trade publication started by his father.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is a research center on housing-related issues at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Through its research,education,and public outreach programs,the center helps leaders in government,business,and the civic sectors make decisions that effectively address the needs of cities and communities.
Donald Rathbun Dwight is an American newspaper executive and politician who served as the 64th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan and is the dominant party in the state,controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,all six elected statewide offices including the governorship,and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Stanley Bruce Herschensohn was an American conservative political commentator,author,and senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy in Malibu,California.
Thomas J. Healey is an American businessman and educator. He was a partner at Goldman,Sachs &Co.,and is Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the 1980s as Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury and in the 1990s on the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration Advisory Council Working Group on the Impact of Alternative Tax Proposals on ERISA Employer-Sponsored Plans.
Douglas William Elmendorf is an American economist who is the dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009,and briefly in 2015 following his time at the CBO,and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings.
The 1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1970. Acting Governor Francis W. Sargent was elected to a four-year term. He defeated incumbent Boston Mayor Kevin H. White in the general election.
Iris Bohnet is a Swiss behavioral economist,and the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and the Academic Dean at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her work focuses primarily on issues of gender,trust,and social preferences.
Matthew Bunn is an American nuclear and energy policy analyst,currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom.
John Michael "Jack" Quinlan was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1965 to 1975.
