Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University
Faculty
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London) and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). In 2001, she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge, and in 2002 she was named "Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year" by the World Teleport Association.
Kanter is the author or co-author of 17 books, which have been translated into 17 languages. Her latest book, America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again, offers a positive agenda for the nation, focused on innovation and education, a new workplace social contract, values-based corporate conduct, competent government, positive international relations through citizen diplomacy and business networks, and national and community service.
Her previous book, Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End (a New York Times Business and #1 Business Week bestseller), describes the culture and dynamics of high-performance organizations as compared with those in decline and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, hospitals, schools, sports teams, community organizations, or countries. Her classic prizewinning book, Men & Women of the Corporation (C. Wright Mills award winner for the year's best book on social issues) offered insight to countless individuals and organizations about corporate careers and the individual and organizational factors that promote success; a spin-off video, A Tale of 'O': On Being Different, is among the world's most widely used diversity tools; and a related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda. In 2001, a coalition of university centers created the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award in her honor for the best research on work / family issues. Another award-winning book, When Giants Learn to Dance, showed how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy identified the rise of new business networks and analyzed the benefits and tensions of globalization.
She has received 22 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles; for example, her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times). Through Goodmeasure Inc., the consulting group she co-founded, she has partnered with IBM to bring her leadership tools, originally developed for businesses, to public education as part of IBM's award-winning Reinventing Education initiative. She advises CEOs of large and small companies, has served on numerous business and nonprofit boards and national or regional commissions, and speaks widely, often sharing the platform with presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs at national and international events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Donald Berwick
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard Medical School
President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Executive Board Member, Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a nonprofit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Boston, MA, IHI is a catalyst for change, cultivating innovative concepts for improving patient care and implementing programs for putting those ideas into action. Thousands of health care providers participate in IHI's groundbreaking work.
Dr. Berwick is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School and professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a pediatrician, an associate in pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital, and a consultant in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Berwick has published over 130 scientific articles in numerous professional journals on subjects relating to health care policy, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health care quality management. His research and commentaries have appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal, and others. Books he has co-authored include Curing Health Care, New Rules: Regulation, Markets and the Quality of American Health Care, and Cholesterol, Children with Heart Disease: An Analysis of Alternatives.
Dr. Berwick was chair of the Health Services Research Review Study Section of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research from 1995 - 1999, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1999 through 2001. He was vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force from 1990 through 1996. From 1996 through 1999, Dr. Berwick served as the first independent member of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association. He also served from 1989 through 1991 as a member of the Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program. He is a member of several editorial boards, including that of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). From 1987 through 1991, Dr. Berwick was co-founder and co-principal investigator for the National Demonstration Project (NDP) on Quality Improvement in Health Care. He is a past president of the International Society for Medical Decision-Making. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and since 2002 has served on the IOM's governing council and as the liaison to the IOM's Global Health Board. Dr. Berwick was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry in 1997 and 1998. Co-chaired by the secretaries of health and human services and labor, the Commission was charged with developing a broader understanding of the issues facing rapidly evolving healthcare delivery systems and to help build consensus on ways to assure and improve the quality of health care.
Dr. Berwick has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the 1999 Ernest A. Codman Award and, in 2001, the first Alfred I. DuPont Award for excellence in children's health care from Nemours, one of the nation's largest pediatric health care provider organizations. In 2002, he was given the Award of Honor from the American Hospital Association for outstanding leadership in improving health care quality, and in 2004 he was inducted as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. In 2005, in recognition of his exemplary work for the National Health Service in the UK, he was appointed honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire—the highest award given to non-British citizens.
A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Berwick holds a master of public policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School. The father of four children (Ben, Dan, Jessica, and Rebecca), he is married to Ann (Greenberg) Berwick, an environmental attorney and former chief of the Environmental Protection Division in the Massachusetts attorney general's office.
Barry R. Bloom
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health
Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease
Barry R. Bloom, formerly Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Professor of Public Health. He received a BA and an honorary ScD from Amherst College, and a PhD from Rockefeller University.
Bloom has been engaged in global health for his entire career and made fundamental contributions to immunology and to the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and leprosy.. He served as a consultant to the White House on International Health Policy from 1977 to 1978, was elected President of the American Association of Immunologists in 1984, and served as President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1985. He served on WHO Committees on Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Tropical Diseases and the Advisory Committee for Health Research. Bloom was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, the John Enders Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1994, and shared the Novartis Award in Immunology in 1998. He received the Robert Koch Gold Medal for lifetime research in infectious diseases in 1999, and Cyprus' Order of the Grand Cross of Makarios III, in 2007, and the USA-India Chamber of Commerce Award for contributions to health in India.
Bloom is Chair of the Technical Research Advisory Committee to the Global Programme on Malaria of the World Health Organization, and has served on the National Advisory Councils of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, and the Center for Infectious Diseases, of the CDC. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory boards of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, and the Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health Strategy Committee. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
David Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography
Harvard School of Public Health
Executive Board Member, Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership
David Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University, Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and director of Harvard University's Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bloom received a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1976, an MA in Economics from Princeton University in 1978, and a PhD in Economics and Demography from Princeton University in 1981. Bloom has served on the public policy faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and on the economics faculties at Harvard University and Columbia University. Bloom formerly served as deputy director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and as Chairman of Columbia University's Department of Economics.
William W. George
Professor of Management Practice
Harvard Business School
Executive Board Member, Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership
Bill George is Professor of Management Practice and Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Ethics at Harvard Business School, where he is teaching leadership and leadership development. He is the author of the new best-selling leadership book, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. His previous book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, was also a best-seller.
George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer, and was elected chief executive officer in 1991, serving in that capacity through 2001. He was chairman of the board from 1996 to 2002. Under his leadership, Medtronic's market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35% a year.
George currently serves as a director of ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and Novartis, as well as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and World Economic Forum USA.
During 2002 – 2003, George was Professor of Leadership and Governance at IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland and Executive-in-Residence at Yale University's School of Management. Prior to joining Medtronic, he spent ten years as a senior executive with Honeywell and ten years with Litton Industries, primarily as president of Litton Microwave Cooking.
George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech and his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He has received an honorary doctorate of business administration from Bryant University. George was named Executive-of-the-Year by the Academy of Management (2001) and Director-of-the-Year by NACD (2001-2002). In 2002 George was selected as one of "The 25 Most Influential Business People of the Last 25 Years" by PBS Nightly News.
David R. Gergen
David R. Gergen is a public service professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership. Over the past three decades, he has served as a White House adviser to four presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. In the mid-1980s, he began a career in journalism, becoming editor of US News & World Report and a television commentator. After his last governmental tour ended in 1994, he returned to journalism and began teaching at Duke University. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in January 1999 while remaining editor at large for US News and a regular analyst on ABC News Nightline. In the fall of 2000, he published a best seller, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. He is also active on nonprofit boards, including the Yale Corporation, and chairs the National Selection Committee for the Innovations in American Government program co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the KSG. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and holds six honorary degrees. He served three and a half years in the Navy and is a member of the Washington, DC Bar. His wife, Anne, is studying at the Jung Institute in Boston.
Allen S. Grossman
Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He served as president and chief executive officer of Outward Bound USA for six years before stepping down in 1997 to work on the challenges of creating high performing nonprofit organizations. His current research focuses on leadership and management in public education; the challenges of measuring nonprofit organizational performance; and the issues of managing multi-site nonprofit organizations. In partnership with four foundations, Grossman founded the Going to Scale Project in 1994. This project led to the book, High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the article, "Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists" published in the Harvard Business Review, both co-authored with Christine Letts and William Ryan.
In the MBA program, Grossman currently teaches the first year course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has taught the first year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and co-taught the second year courses, Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector and Effective Leadership of a Social Enterprise. Grossman is faculty chair for the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and HGSE; he co-chairs the executive education program, Performance Measurement and Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO), a joint project of HBS and KSG; and he teaches in the HBS executive education programs, Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Managers (SPNM), and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE), and others.
Before joining the nonprofit sector, he served as a regional chief executive of Albert Fisher PLC and Chairman of the Board of Grossman Paper Company, a national distributor of packaging products. Grossman served on and chaired a number of nonprofit and for-profit boards. He received a BS in corporate finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
James P. Honan
James P. Honan has served on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) since 1991. He is also a faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He is Educational Co-Chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and has also been a faculty member in a number of Harvard's other executive education programs and professional development institutes for educational leaders and nonprofit administrators, including the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, the Management Development Program, the ACRL / Harvard Leadership Institute, the Principals' Center, and the Harvard Institute for School Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Governing for Nonprofit Excellence, Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, NAACP Board Retreat, and Habitat for Humanity Leadership Conference (Faculty Section Chair) at the Harvard Business School (HBS); and Strategic Management for Charter School Leaders, Achieving Excellence in Community Development, American Red Cross Partners in Organizational Leadership Program and US / Japan Workshops on Accountability and International NGOs at the Kennedy School of Government. He has served as Faculty Co-Chair of the Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations program, an institute developed by the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and served as Educational Chair of HGSE's Management Development Program from 1995 to 1998. He has also taught in executive education programs and professional development institutes in Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. He has served as a consultant on strategic planning, resource allocation, and performance measurement and management to numerous colleges, universities, schools, and nonprofit organizations both nationally and internationally.
His teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit and education organizations, strategic planning, organizational performance measurement and management issues, and higher education administration. He is the author or co-author of several publications, including: "Monitoring Institutional Performance," for the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities; "New Yardsticks for Measuring Financial Distress," (with Kent Chabotar) for the American Association for Higher Education; "How Might Data Be Used?" (with Cathy Trower); "Building Strategic Accountability Systems for International NGOs (with L. David Brown and Mark H. Moore); Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-Based Educational Improvement (co-edited with Chris Dede and Laurence Peters); "The U.S. Academic Profession: Key Policy Challenges" (with Damtew Teferra) in Higher Education; Using Cases in Higher Education: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators (with Cheryl Sternman Rule), Casebook I: Faculty Employment Policies (co-edited with Cheryl Sternman Rule), and Teaching Notes to Casebook I: Faculty Employment Policies(with Cheryl Sternman Rule). He received the Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award from the Harvard University Extension School in 1995.
He was an Associate Director of HGSE's Programs in Professional Education from 1991 to 1997. Previously, he served as Institutional Research Coordinator in the Office of Budgets at Harvard University and Project Analyst in Harvard's University Financial Aid Office. He has also been a research assistant at the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Higher Education in Washington, D.C. and served as Director of Institutional Research and Planning and Executive Assistant to the President at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Marist College and the Dana Hall School. He served previously as a trustee of Fitchburg State College and the Plan for Social Excellence, a private foundation. He has also served as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Child Care Resource Center, Inc., a nonprofit regional child care resource and referral agency in Cambridge, MA.
He holds a BA from Marist College (NY), an MA and EdS in Higher Education from George Washington University (DC), and an EdM and EdD in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University.
Rakesh Khurana
Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He teaches a doctoral seminar on Management and Markets and The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance in the MBA program.
Khurana received his BS from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his AM (Sociology) and PhD in Organization Behavior from Harvard University. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked as a founding member of Cambridge Technology Partners in Sales and Marketing.
Khurana's research uses a social network perspective to re-frame classical economic and sociological explanations of market outcomes. His research focuses on the processes by which leaders are selected and developed. He has written extensively about the CEO labor market with a particular interest on: the factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; the factors that affect the choice of successor; the role of market intermediaries such as executive search firms in CEO search; and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. He has published articles on corporate governance in the Harvard Business and Sloan Management Review. His most recent article, "Growing Talent as if your Business Depended on It", appears in the October issue of the Harvard Business Review. His book on the CEO labor market, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (Princeton University Press) was published in October, 2002.
Khurana's work on the deficiencies of the CEO labor market and the emergence of the charismatic CEO succession model is regularly featured by the general media including: Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNBC, The Economist, Globe and Mail, The New Yorker and Corporate Board Member magazine. He has also published opinion–editorials in some of these outlets. He has consulted with corporations and executive search firms to help improve their CEO succession, governance, and executive development practices. Khurana's current research grows out of the same interests in the social context of business leadership and the allocation of leadership positions that motivated his research on the CEO labor market. He is completing a book on the evolution of management as a profession, with particular focus on the institutional development of the MBA. This research is rooted in the question of how certain occupations within business (not just executive management but also consulting, private equity, and investment banking) have come to require the MBA credential as a prerequisite for entry. The significance of this issue lies in its direct bearing on the question of how professional management has claimed and received legitimation for its role as the steward of a very substantial proportion of society's material wealth and resources—a role that has itself been subject to changing interpretations over the decades since the phenomenon of professional management first appeared on the American scene.
Robert H. Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project
Chair, Steering Committee, Program on Negotiation
Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, the Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems; both public and private.
Professor Mnookin has written or edited nine books and numerous scholarly articles. A renowned teacher and lecturer, Professor Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills. He has served as a consultant to governments, international agencies, major corporations and law firms. As a neutral arbitrator or mediator, he has resolved numerous complex commercial disputes. With respect to ethnic conflicts, he has facilitated dialogues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that between the Flemish and the Walloons within Belgium. He is presently completing a book entitled "Bargaining with the Devil" which concerns whether and how to negotiate with an adversary one feels is evil.
Before joining the Harvard faculty, Professor Mnookin was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, an interdisciplinary group concerned with overcoming barriers to the negotiated resolution of conflict.
Professor Mnookin received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1964 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. After serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, he joined the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk. He began teaching law at Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, in 1972 and was on the Stanford faculty from 1981 until 1993. Professor Mnookin has been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University; a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria's research centers on leadership and corporate transformation. Co–author of more than ten books, his most recent, Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership, chronicles how leaders from different backgrounds rose to power in American business. This is a companion book to In Their Time, which draws lessons from some of the greatest American business leaders of the 20th century. His other books include: What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, a systematic large-scale study of management practices that truly differentiate business winners. Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation examines the decline of industrial firms in the last quarter of the 20th century and discusses what can be learned from this experience. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes our Choices explores four basic drives that shape human motivation and choice. Master Passions: Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture, discusses how the passions shape not only our individual lives but our social and organizational culture as well. The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey examines the role of ambition in the making of great achievers. The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, won the 1998 George R. Terry Award, given by the Academy of Management for the best book written by an academy member. Fast Forward presents the best ideas on managing business change, and Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management looks beyond the quick-fix panaceas being thrown at managers. In another work called Building the Information Age Organization, Nohria examines the role of information technology in transforming organizations. Finally, in Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action, an edited volume of original articles, he explores the emergence of network-like organizations. He is also the author of over 75 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes.
Nohria has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies in different parts of the world. He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR, and cited in Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Nohria teaches courses across Harvard Business School's MBA, PhD, and Executive Education programs. He also served as a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996.
Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Nohria received his PhD in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (www.charleshamiltonhouston.org) named in honor of the visionary lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law.
Ogletree has examined these issues not only in the classroom, on the Internet, and in the pages of prestigious law journals, but also in the everyday world of the public defender in the courtroom and in public television forums where these issues can be dramatically revealed. He furthers dialogue by insisting that the justice system protect rights guaranteed to those citizens by law. The Institute opened in September 2005 and focuses on a variety of issues relating to race and justice; it will sponsor research, hold conferences, and provide policy analysis.
Ogletree's most recent book, co-edited with Austin Sarat of Amherst College is From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America, was published by New York University Press in May 2006. Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy, co-authored with Deborah Rhode of Stanford University, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and was published by the American Bar Association in August 2004. His historical memoir, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education(www.alldeliberatespeed.com), was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2004. All Deliberate Speed has received favorable reviews from many distinguished scholars, including Skip Gates, David Levering Lewis, Alan Dershowitz, John Hope Franklin, and Anita Hill.
Ogletree has served as faculty director and associate dean and vice dean of the Harvard Law School Clinical Program. He holds honorary doctorates of law from North Carolina Central University, New England School of Law, Tougaloo College, Amherst College, Wilberforce University, and the University of Miami School of Law.
Ogletree is a native of Merced, California, where he attended public schools. Ogletree earned an MA and BA (with distinction) in political science from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a JD from Harvard Law School where he served as Special Projects Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review.
Earlier this year, Ogletree was named by Ebony Magazine as one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans. He was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Black Law Students Association, where he served as National President from 1977-1978. Ogletree also received the first ever Rosa Parks Civil Rights Award given by the City of Boston, the Hugo A. Bedau Award given by the Massachusetts Anti-Death Penalty Coalition, and Morehouse College's Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize. The Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund honored Ogletree with the Justice in Action Award, and the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus presented him with their "Good Guys" Award.
He is the co-author of the award-winning book, Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities, and he frequently contributes to many journals and law reviews. He has written chapters in several books, including If You Buy the Hat, He Will Come, In Faith of Our Fathers: African American Men Reflect on Fatherhood and The Tireless Warrior for Racial Justice, which appears in Reason & Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence. Privileges and Immunities for Basketball Stars and Other Sport Heroes? appears in Basketball Jones, published in 2000. In addition, Ogletree's commentaries on a broad range of timely and important issues have appeared in the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other national newspapers. His commentary on how to make Black America better was published in the 2001 compilation, Lift Every Voice and Sing. Ogletree has also contributed a chapter entitled The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure, which appears in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, published in 2002.
Ogletree also serves as the co-chair of the Reparations Coordinating Committee, a group of lawyers and other experts researching a lawsuit based upon a claim of reparations for descendants of African slaves.
In 2005, Ogletree was honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Award for National Service and presented with the Morehouse College Candle in the Dark Award in Education and Law. He also received the City University of New York Public Interest Law Association Lifetime Achievement Award in Public Interest Law. In 2004, the Clio Exchange presented Ogletree with the Carter G. Woodson History Maker Living Legend Award. He also received the A. Leon Higginbotham Lawyer of the Year Award from the National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. In 2003, he was selected by Savoy Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in America and by Black Enterprise Magazine, along with Thurgood Marshall, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., and Constance Baker Motley, as one of the legal legends among America's top black lawyers. In 2002, he received the National Bar Association's prestigious Equal Justice Award. In 2001, he joined a list of distinguished jurists, including former Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, and civil rights lawyers Elaine Jones and Oliver Hill, when he received the prestigious Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association.
Ogletree has been married to his fellow Stanford graduate, Pamela Barnes, since 1975. They are the proud parents of two children, Charles Ogletree III and Rashida Ogletree. The Ogletrees live in Cambridge and are members of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Fernando M. Reimers
Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at the Graduate School of Education. He teaches courses on the relationship between education policy, democratic citizenship, and instructional improvement. His course Education Policy Analysis and Research in Developing Countries focuses on some of the core education challenges in the development field. His course Education, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America is an examination of the options to improve learning opportunities in high poverty schools in Latin America. He recently led a group of nine faculty at the Graduate School of Education in the design and implementation of a core course on high school reform in the United States. He is advising a cross-national study of democratic citizenship skills and civic education in Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Paraguay. He is also conducting a large research project to examine professional development approaches to improve literacy instruction and several studies on civic education in Mexico. He recently completed a study evaluating a national program to promote literacy instruction in Mexico as part of a large evaluation of major education policies of the Federal Government in Mexico, a project for which he was principal investigator, involving eight faculty members at the Graduate School of Education. This research led to a recently published book, Aprender Mas y Mejor: Politicas, Programas y Oportunidades en Educacion Basica en Mexico. He also served recently on a panel review of the National Academy of Sciences evaluating Title VI, Fulbright-Hays, and other federally funded programs to promote the internationalization of American universities. Reimers is also interested in the contributions of education to democratic citizenship. His latest publications include a study of the impact of a large scale school-based management program in poor children in Mexico; a study of the impact of empirical research on civic education in education policy in Latin America; an essay on the implications of Globalization for the purposes of education; evaluation of the research literature on scholarship programs to support school attendance among low income children; an article examining gender inequalities in educational management in Mexico; a chapter on the history of education in Latin America; an article on education and democratic citizenship; an article on education and literacy instruction in Mexico; and an article on the civic purposes of education in Latin America. He has published several books and articles on international education and development. His most recent books include Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances (editor), Informed Dialogue: Using Research to Change Education Policy Around the World (with Noel McGinn) and Hope or Despair: Primary Education in Pakistan(with Donald Warwick). He has organized and served on the academic committee of a number of research and policy conferences focusing on the improvement of education in Latin America and other developing regions, some of the most recent include an international conference on public-private partnership in education in Washington, DC in September 2006; a conference on education and corporate responsibility in Latin America in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil in June 2006; and a conference on Education and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America in Costa Rica in July 2005.
A fellow of the International Academy of Education and member of the Council of Foreign Relations and of the Advisory Board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences, Reimers is best known for his theory of "Informed Dialogue", an approach to bridge scientific research and education policy through the mapping and mobilization of social networks. Reimers is also known for his studies on the quality of education in developing countries and for his research on the relationship between education policy and instructional improvement in high poverty schools. He is the director and creator of the International Education Policy Program at Harvard University.
Prior to joining the Faculty at the Graduate School of Education in 1997, he was Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank. He also worked as research associate, institute associate and fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development and on the faculty at Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has extensive experience in the area of international development assistance with the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank and other development organizations. He has worked in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and most countries in Latin America. He serves on a number of advisory boards of educational organizations, including the advisory board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academy of Sciences; the advisory board for the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices at the Organization of American States the advisory board of Primary Source; the Board of Scholars of Facing History and Ourselves; the advisory board of the World Computer Exchange. He co-chairs the Global Education Advisory Board to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education. He recently served on the Higher Education Transition Team appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and on a task force to improve K-12 education in Massachusetts. He serves also on the advisory board of the Federal Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education in Mexico.
At Harvard, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, where he is also chair of the Mexico Studies Committee and member of the Brazil Studies Program, and co-chair of the Social Policy Committee. He is a faculty associate at the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He serves on the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the steering Committee of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, on the Scholars at Risk Committee at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, on the Selection Committee of the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program, and on the University Committee on International Projects and Sites. He is married to Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, dean of education and child life at Wheelock College, who completed her masters and doctorate at the Graduate School of Education.
Forest Reinhardt
Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He heads HBS's Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, a group of fifteen faculty from various academic disciplines who study and teach about the economic, political, social, and legal environment of business.
Reinhardt teaches an elective MBA course, Business and the Environment, which examines pollution and natural resource issues and their implications for business managers. He teaches regularly in the HBS Agribusiness Seminar and other executive education programs at the School. In addition, he recently served as course head for the required MBA course, Strategy, which covers topics in industry analysis, competitive advantage, and corporate strategy.
Reinhardt currently serves as the faculty chair of Harvard Business School's European Research Initiative.
Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published in 2000 by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, most of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. He has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, used at Harvard and many other schools in MBA curricula and in executive programs.
Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College.
Peter Brown Zimmerman
Peter Brown Zimmerman (Faculty Chair) is Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Program Development and a lecturer in Public Policy. He has particular interest in organizational strategy for public and nonprofit organizations and how executives in these sectors adapt ideas from domains such as business and military affairs to improve performance. A master's graduate of the Kennedy School's Public Policy Program, Dean Zimmerman has worked for the Navy's Strategic Systems Project Office and on the National Security Council staff. He has consulted for a wide range of public and nonprofit organizations. He was director of the task force on education and training for the National Commission on Public Service and he served as vice-chair of the task force on management and organizational renewal for the National Park Service (the "Volcker Commission"). More recently, he has been working with several major non-governmental organizations as they craft new strategies to meet conditions of rapid change.