Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University
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Leadership Initiative Fellow Bolden nominated to lead NASA
Retired Marine Maj. Gen. and former astronaut Charles Bolden was nominated to be the head of NASA on Saturday (May 23), interrupting his stay at Harvard as an Advanced Leadership Fellow.
Charlie Bolden and the Boomers, Still Flying High
The world knows General Bolden as a space shuttle commander and Marine Corps Major General. At Harvard University, we know him as Charlie Bolden, an active 2009 Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow who is dedicated to improving health care services for African-Americans suffering from sickle cell anemia. He will bring more than technical skills to NASA and space exploration; he will bring enormous compassion and a commitment to solving human problems on the ground.
Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter inaugurated the Advanced Leadership Initiative to do for people of substantial accomplishment late in their careers what other Harvard programs - the Nieman Fellowship for journalists, the midcareer program at the Kennedy School of Government, the Loeb Fellowships at the Graduate School of Design - do for people at the midpoint. The initiative aims...to "change the concept of 'retirement' and help change the world for the better."
Starting Over, With A Second Career Goal Of Changing Society
Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new "third stage" of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in a new stage of life
New Leadership Fellowship Program Established
"Leadership is not just knowledge of one profession," said longtime HBS faculty member Rosabeth Moss Kanter, one of the creators of the fellowship program and Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Leadership. "It's the ability to motivate people to take action and create change.
Robert M. Whelan Jr. could have retired to a life of leisure. Instead, the former investment banker was scouting around for a new project--preferably one that would help make the world a better place.
Interdisciplinary Program on Leadership
Retired professionals are back in school as part of a new University-wide, interfaculty pilot project aimed at providing a rigorous educational program for experienced leaders seeking “encore careers” in public service.
Harvard Think Tank Addresses Societal Concerns, Poverty: Bay State Banner