CREATINGCREATING PUBLIC PUBLIC VALUE VALUE BY BY ENGAGINGENGAGING BUSINESS BUSINESS AND AND GOVERNMENTGOVERNMENT NovemberOctober 2012 2015 Floors 3 -5, Belfer Building www.mrcbg.org INAUGURAL RAY GOLDBERG FELLOWSHIP IN Seminars & Events M-RCBG PLANNING MILESTONE FALL EVENTS Seminars & Events GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEMS AWARDED M-RCBG has over 80 seminars As M-RCBG continues to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Center’s founding, it is planning Mand-RCBG events has over scheduled 30 seminars each and events scheduled for the fall semester. Below is a Thenumerous Mossavar events-Rahmani this semester Center as it continues for Business to seek andnew waysGovernment to add value has to ournamed changing stu- semester, some of which are listed dentsworldl Alicia Among Harley them are: and Jessica Newman as the inaugural Ray Goldberg Fellows small selection. Please see our website (www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbgbelow. For a complete schedule,) for a in GlobalA 30th Food anniversary Systems. forum lecture on “The Vexed Relationship between Business & Govern- completevisit www.mrcbg.org. listing. ment”. Speakers will include Center Director Lawrence Summers, Prof. Roger Porter, Ben "The Goldberg Fellowship recognizes the growing interest in agriculture and Heineman and Nina Easton (JFK Jr. Forum, October 30, 6pm). Gas Hydrates as an food systems at Harvard, and the importance of linking scholarship to practice James Hammitt, Harvard School of Public The 2012 Glauber Lecture featuring Ed Haldeman, former CEO of Freddie Mac (JFK Jr. Fo- Energy Source; Carolyn in ways that improve the world," said William Clark, Brooks Professor of Inter- Health. Positive v. Normative Justifications rum, October 18, 6pm). Ruppel, US Geologi- national Science, Public Policy and Human Development. ofcal Cost Survey’s Benefit Analysis. Gas Bell Hall, October 4, 11:45-1pm. The 20th Doyukai Symposium will focus on “A Vision for Japan in 20 Years”. Speakers will The Ray Goldberg Fellowship in Global Food Systems supports Harvard stu- Hydrates Project. Bell, include Joseph Nye, Roger Porter, Anthony Saich, and Ezra Vogel. (November 19). Nov. 2. 12-1:30. dents working in the context of global food systems. This may include work re- Christopher Knittel, MIT. Embracing our For additional information about any of these events, please contact [email protected] or lated to agricultural systems, food supply chains, farmer and farmworker well- Differences: Heterogeneous Externalities and call XXX. being and equity, agricultural economics, food justice and sovereignty, agricul- their Implications forClimate Welfare. Tipping Littauer -Points382, October 10, 4:10-5:30pm. tural processing and industry, food science and nutrition, or food policy. and Solar Geoengineer- ing; Juan Moreno- “WeS TUDENTSare beginning R toEPORT witness ON innovative SUMMER cross INTERNSHIP-sector collaborations EXPERIENCES to address Matthew Baum, Cruz.Cary Coglianese, L-382, Nov. and 4. food -related problems. Such partnerships between sectors are the only way for- Richard Zeckhauser.4:15 Regulatory-5:30. Break- ward.This past I hope summer, this M Fellowship-RCBG provided will financial encourage support collaborative to 17 HKS students, research enabling by themthe recipi- to down: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regu- entsundertake who takeinternships advantage in a variety of the of settings interrelated around sourcesthe globe. of Students food systemworked atresearch the US Depart- tak- lation, Bell Hall. October 11, 11:45-1pm. ingment place of the at Treasury, Harvard,” United said Nations Professor Capital Ray Development Goldberg Fund,. International Finance Corpora- Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University. tion, Asian Development Bank, and numerous small non-governmental organizations, testing new ComprehensiveAn Excess of Tax Access? Reform and U.S. Energy Harleyapproaches is a todoctoral improve candidatetrade, create ineconomic Public opportunity, Policy at Harvard’sand strengthen Kennedy regulation. School The range of Success and Failure in Government who studies innovation in agricultural systems. Her research is de- Policy. Bell Hall, October 15, 12:15-1:45pm. and impact of these internships is notable. Robert Boudreau (MPA 13) prepared policy briefs for Regulating Austral- velopingsenior officials insights at the intoU.S. Treasury,the mechanisms Office of International through which Banking innovation and Securities policy Regulation. differ- ia’s Natural Monopo- Thomas Covert, Harvard University. entiallyWorking impacts on a smaller farmers scale, Jonathan across socioeconomicElist (MPA 13) developed and caste alternative spectrums forms ofin credit Bihar, report- In- lies; Henry Ergas, Learning and Experimentation in the North dia.ing forNewman Rent Reporters is pursuing in Pasadena. a joint Two degree students as worked a Master with in Instiglio, Public an Policy organization at Harvard founded Univ. of Wollon- Dakotagong. Bakken Bell, Shale. Nov. Littauer 12. -382, October Kennedyby HKS students School to andbring an social MBA impact from bonds MIT’s to developing Sloan School countries. of Business Piyush Jain and (MPP has 13) been ex- 10, 4:10-5:30pm. 11:45-1. activeplored inthe bringing potential for together social impact faculty bonds and to deliverstudents social from services across in India, the university,and Eunice Lim or- ganizing(MPP 13) testedthe first their Harvard potential toResearch address at Symposium-risk youth in Colombia. on the Nexus Prad Kerdpairoj of Food, (MPAID Agricul- 13) David Greene, University of Tennessee. provided technical support to Impact Investment Shujog Limited in Singapore, and Pragya Lohani ture, Environment, Health, and Society earlier this year. Oil Dependence: WhatRetiree Does it Healthcare:Really Cost (MPP 13) helped develop government strategies to promote business development in Sri Lanka. Us? Bell Hall, OctoberThe 22, Elephant 12:15-1:45pm. in the Several students plan to use their summer experience as the basis for PolicyRay Analysis Goldberg Exercises is this Room; Robert year. George M. Moffett Pozen, MIT. Bell, Professor of Agri- Howard KunreutherNov., University 19, 11:45 of Penn--1. culture and Busi- sylvania. Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response With support from M-RCBG, Mariellaness, Emeritus Amemiya at Policies. Littauer-382, October 10, 4:10- (MPAID 13) spent the summer working with the the Harvard Busi- 5:30pm. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for ness School (HBS) Asia and Pacific, in Bangkok, Thailand, to develop where he founded trade and investment strategies for the Asia Pacific Rio+20 Panel Discussion. Collective Ac- region. the Agribusiness tion within the Financial Sector. Allison Senior Manage- Dining Room, OctoberSearch 25, Groups: 11:45-1pm. ment Seminars. M-RCBG The fellowship was inaugurated CSRI Senior Fellows Si- Several of M-RCBG’s seminars mon Zadek and Salil by an anonymous @HKS_BizGov are now videos accessible for Goldberg Fellowship recipients Alicia Harley (left) and Jessica Newman (right) gift from an HBS Tripathi Discuss viewing via Vimeo. To access, with Professor Ray Goldberg (center). alumnus. visit: vimeo.com/mrcbg Grievance Mechanisms MRCBG Weil Hall |79 JFK Street | Cambridge | Massachusetts | 02138 Nelson moderates panel on UN sustainable development Financial Sector Program co-hosts goals Thailand@Harvard Lecture Series CSRI Director Jane On September 9, the Ash Cen- Nelson moderated a ter hosted Dr. Veerathai San- panel on extractive in- tiprabhob as part of the annual dustries on September Thailand@Harvard Lecture 27 at the United Nations series in partnership with the Sustainable Develop- Harvard University Thai Stud- ment Summit 2015 in ies program and the M-RCBG New York City. The Financial Sector Program. panel discussed prepar- Addressing a packed audience ing an atlas of how the in Bell Hall, Veerathai offered UN’s sustainable devel- reflections on what the global opment goals (SDGs) community can expect and will affect corporations in the mining sector. Organizers learn from the country’s reform also charted out opportunities for the mining sector to efforts in the wake of Thailand’s ongoing political contribute to the SDGs, resulting in a draft atlas launch at upheavals. the event, which was available for public consultation. Michael Herzfeld, the Director of Thai Studies Pro- HEEP Faculty Fellow appointed new editor of the Brook- gram at the Harvard Asia Center and Jay Rosengard, ings Papers on Economic Activity the Academic Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the Ash Center and M-RCBG fac- The Brookings Institution ulty affiliate, provided opening remarks and intro- has appointed Harvard duced Veerathai, a Harvard University alum with a economist James Stock as PhD in Economics and a career spanning the public one of two co-editors of and private sectors. When Veerathai assumes the the Brookings Papers on post of Governor of the Bank of Thailand in October Economic Activity. 2015, he will become the Central Bank’s youngest Professor Stock, along leader in four decades. Previously, he served as the with Janice Eberly from executive vice president of the Stock Exchange of Northwestern University, Thailand and an economist for the International Mon- will be co-editors for the etary Fund. flagship economic journal of the Institution. Their Veerathai first described the need for multi- first volume will appear in 2016, and both will be- dimensional reform, and then presented an overview of reform