Archive: 2021

December 16, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf Dear Members of the Harvard Kennedy School Community, This winter, we recognize the retirement from teaching of two faculty members, Bob Behn (at the end of December) and Mark Moore (at…

December 15, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To Members of the Kennedy School Community, As you know, Harvard will be closed next week and the week after, to give us all a chance to rest, relax, and spend time with our families and…

December 6, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To the Members of the Harvard Kennedy School Community, Some of you may know that Philip Heymann passed away last week. Phil, as he was known, had been a distinguished professor at Harvard…

November 18, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To HKS Staff, Faculty, and Students, As President Bacow just wrote, we will be welcoming graduates from the classes of 2020 and 2021 back to campus for Commencement festivities on May 28 and…

November 16, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To the Harvard Kennedy School Community, In a letter to the Harvard University community in September, President Larry Bacow wrote, “Climate change is the most consequential threat facing…

September 29, 2021 To Harvard Kennedy School’s Faculty, Students, and Staff, I am thrilled to pass along the news that Professor Marcella Alsan is one of this year’s MacArthur Fellows! A MacArthur Fellowship is often known as a “genius…

September 20, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To the Harvard Kennedy School Community, It is with a heavy heart that I write to you about the passing of one of our faculty members, John Ruggie. John was a colleague, teacher, and friend…

September 10, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To the HKS Community,  I hope everyone’s semester is off to a good start. I am delighted that we are able to be together again on campus. As we come up to the 20th anniversary of…

August 26, 2021 A message from Dean Douglas Elmendorf To the Kennedy School’s Students, Faculty, and Staff, I will be writing to you early next week about the beginning of another exciting year at Harvard Kennedy School. But I know that tragic…

May 27, 2021 Hello everyone. I am Doug Elmendorf, the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Welcome to the graduation of the amazing Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2021. This class includes students from around…