From 2008 to 2010, the Ash Institute is convening the Executive Session on Transforming Cities through Civic Entrepreneurship. With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and established in conjunction with New Profit Inc., the Executive Session seeks to change the environment in which communities solve their social problems.
About the Session
Through a series of closed-door discussions that build upon participants' own experiences in disrupting and reinventing their respective fields, the Executive Session explore city’s challenges in solving problems, avenues for encouraging social innovation in neighborhoods, and opportunities for national social entrepreneurs to more effectively engage local communities. Between meetings, participants experiment with these new ideas and strategies and actively integrate them into the national discourse.
Research and Writing
Read related working papers, columns, and op-eds authored by Session members»
Members
Led by HKS Professors Steve Goldsmith, Mark Moore, and Frank Hartman, the Session's members comprise a prestigious group of national leaders and policy makers. View the full list of members»
About Executive Sessions at Harvard Kennedy School
For more than 20 years, Harvard Kennedy School has supported the work of practitioners through its Executive Sessions. Each Session, held over three or more years, addresses a public policy issue that seems both intractable and, at the same time, ripe for a leap forward. Past Executive Sessions have addressed community policing, medical errors, and children in poverty. Bill Bratton, former commissioner of the New York City Police Department and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, has said that community policing was born in an Executive Session at Harvard Kennedy School. Executive Sessions often prompt scholars and practitioners to collaborate on a series of reports or valuable papers that lead to policy change.
For more information
Tim Burke, Research Coordinator
617-496-4703
tim_burke@hks.harvard.edu