BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Growth Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161031T162000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T235656Z UID:14815-1478188800-1478192400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Case Study Seminar - Global Leadership and Management at a Time of Rapid Change: Translating Macro-trends to the Individual Organization DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charles MacCormack\, President Emeritus\, Save the Children Charlie MacCormack is the former President and CEO of Save the Children US\, an independent nonprofit organization with programs in the United States and more than 50 countries. He also serves on the board of directors of the International Save the Children Alliance\, which implements programs totaling $1 billion for children in 120 countries\, and is former chair of the board of InterAction.  Dr. MacCormack will discuss how organizations and associations of organizations respond to unpredictable change at the organizational level. He will highlight the case of Save the Children.RSVP required. Email cid@hks.harvard.edu. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/case-study-seminar-global-leadership-and-management-at-a-time-of-rapid-change-translating-macro-trends-to-the-individual-organization/ LOCATION:Perkins Room\, 4th floor Rubensteing bldg\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T130000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161031T163600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002503Z UID:14953-1478259900-1478264400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Venezuela: How an Oil Rich Country Went Bust and the Roadmap to Get It Back on Track DESCRIPTION:Speakers: CID Venezuela Project Team Venezuela is currently undergoing the worst economic crisis in its history. By the end of 2016\, more than 30% of the gross domestic product (GDP) it had three years ago will be lost. Poverty has soared to record levels. Monthly inflation rates are gradually approaching hyperinflation. Shortages of basic food staples and medicines are rampant. In order to promote a better understanding of the causes\, magnitudes\, and possible remedies of the crisis\, the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University launched a research initiative on Venezuela at the end of 2015. To learn more about this work and some preliminary findings\, visit our project page. Members of our research team will share their experiences and preview their findings at this seminar. *Originally scheduled in the Perkins Room\, please note the location of this seminar is now in the Malkin Penthouse. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-venezuela-how-an-oil-rich-country-went-bust-and-the-roadmap-to-get-it-back-on-track/ LOCATION:*Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161103T235000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002343Z UID:14943-1478781900-1478786400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Designing Technology for the "Other" 5 Billion DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif\, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board With the advent of $50 smartphones\, we can finally design software applications to fight poverty\, disease and illiteracy for the “other” 5 billion people in the developing-world. In this talk\, Prof. Umar Saif will share a series of systems designed for the 120 million citizens in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. These systems have been used for targeting 13 million Dengue containment activities\, monitoring 53\,000 schools in Punjab\, tracking 3\,700 vaccinators and collecting feedback from 11 million citizens. Each system highlights a unique set of challenges and opportunities for designing systems for the developing-world. Prof. Saif will conclude by explaining the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact of projects in the developing-world and present a new smartphone-based platform aimed at democratizing data collection\, surveys and randomized controlled trails at a large scale. Buffet lunch served. No RSVP required. Space available on a first-come\, first-served basis. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-designing-technology-for-the-other-5-billion/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T183000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161105T012000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14900-1479315600-1479321000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All DESCRIPTION:On November 16th CID will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Priyadarshani Joshi of the recently published 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report\, an editorially independent report published by UNESCO. This report has been mandated by the international education community to monitor the progress of the global goal of education in the new UN agenda (2016 – 2030). The Report presents a comprehensive vision of the ways in which education is linked to the other 16 sustainable development goals\, and details the implications for monitoring the education goal (SDG 4). The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion. \nPriyadarshani Joshi is from Nepal and is a researcher with the Global Education Monitoring Report\, housed in UNESCO. She joined the team in 2014\, and her chief emphasis has been on articulating education’s role in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. She has a PhD in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her personal research agenda focuses on the consequences of private sector growth for the public sector\, parental choice\, and system wide quality and equity in the education sector in developing countries. Prior to her doctoral work\, her professional backgrounds included research positions at the IMF and consultancies at UNICEF and the World Bank. Priya also initiated\, co-designed and was part of the board of an innovative mobile library project in Nepal\, one of the World Bank Development Marketplace 2003 Education Sector Project winners. Priya holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College\, and a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University. \nMichèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She will serve as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. A cultural sociologist\, Lamont is the coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States\, Brazil\, and Israel(Princeton University Press\, 2016). She is also the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and has published close to one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality\, race\, racism and stigma\, social change and social resilience\, academia and knowledge\, and qualitative social science research. She is currently working on a monograph titled Being Worthy and is completing a co-edited Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine on “Mutuality\, Health Promotion and Collective Cultural Change.” She serves as the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Co-Director of the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. \nConnie K. Chung is the Associate Director for the Global Education Innovation Initiative and a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, teaching a research practicum about education quality. She conducts research about civic\, global citizenship\, and 21st century education. She is especially interested in how to build the capacities of organizations and people to work collaboratively toward providing a relevant\, rigorous\, meaningful education for all children that not only supports their individual growth but also the growth of their communities. She is the co-editor of the book\, Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals\, Policies\, and Curricula from Six Nations (Harvard Education Press\, 2016)\, a co-author of the K-12 curriculum resource\, Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\, 2016)\, and a contributor to a book about US education improvement efforts\, A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (Oxford University Press\, 2011). A former high school English literature teacher\, she was nominated by her students for teaching awards. Connie received her BA\, EdM\, and EdD from Harvard University and her dissertation analyzed the individual and organizational factors that facilitated people from diverse ethnic\, religious\, and socio-economic class backgrounds to work together to improve their community. This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/education-for-people-and-planet-creating-sustainable-futures-for-all/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161117T205900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14952-1479473100-1479477600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Too Small to Fail: Why Small Countries are Outperforming Larger Ones and What Lessons can be Learned DESCRIPTION:Speaker: R. James Breiding\, Author \n‘Too Small to Fail’ analyzes a number of successful countries that have created virtues out of their physical limitations. It attempts to understand what they do differently and why they seem to do it better. Why are they better-educated\, more egalitarian\, and wealthier?  R.James Breiding is the author of Swiss Made – The Untold Story behind Switzerland’s Success. Published in 10 languages and offered by 50 Swiss ambassadors as a diplomatic gift\, ‘Swiss Made’ has become the most authoritative work on Swiss socio-economic history. Mr. Breiding is a graduate of IMD Lausanne and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been selected as a fellow by Harvard University’s Center for International Development in connection with his research on Swiss Made. His work has been widely published in publications like the Economist\, the Financial Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the New York Times\, etc. He worked as a chartered accountant and senior manager at Price Waterhouse Coopers; a director at NM Rothschild + Sons; and managing director at Templeton Investment. He founded\, with the assistance of Sir John Templeton and other prominent investors\, Naissance Capital\, a Swiss ‘boutique’ Investment firm. He is a Swiss citizen.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-too-small-to-fail-why-small-countries-are-outperforming-larger-ones-and-what-lessons-can-be-learned/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161128T195400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T230017Z UID:14813-1480350600-1480356000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Business History Seminar - HBS DESCRIPTION:Business history InitiativeWe seek to enable scholars\, educators\, and practitioners to learn from the past by providing rich and nuanced evidence on the key issues faced by the world today. Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History in the 1940s\, Harvard has taken an interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Presenter: Arne Westad\, Harvard University “World’s Apart: The Cold War in the 20th Century” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/business-history-seminar-hbs/ LOCATION:Baker B82 – HBS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T181000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161119T015200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003102Z UID:14976-1480353000-1480356600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Political Prisoners and Torture in Venezuela: The Experience of an HKS Alumnus and Venezuelan Political Prisoner DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francisco Marquez\, MPP’12 and political prisoner; Tarek Masoud\, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Francisco Marquez Lara is a Venezuelan lawyer and polítical activist with the Voluntad Popular party. He was held as a political prisoner in Venezuela for four months. Throughout this time he was detained in four facilities under three organizations. This is the story of what he lived through and witnessed.  Before his imprisonment\, Marquez was Chief of Staff for the Mayor of El Hatillo in Caracas. He obtained his law degree at Catholic University Andres Bello and his Master in Public Policy degree at Harvard Kennedy School. Related – El Pais: Strife-torn Venezuela frees two political prisoners URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/political-prisoners-and-torture-in-venezuela-the-experience-of-an-hks-alumnus-and-venezuelan-political-prisoner/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260507T064809 CREATED:20161121T195400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175417Z UID:14963-1480359600-1480365000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Nurturing Economic Growth: What Should LATAM Countries do under the New Normal? DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos\, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University \nCarlos Fernández Valdovinos\, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay since October 2013. He has a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Chicago\, 1999)\, Master in Economic Policy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, 1994) and graduated in economics (Federal University of Parana\, Brazil\, 1990). Previously\, he served as the Managing Director of the Economic Research Division at the CBP (2001-2004)\, senior economist covering Argentina at the World Bank in Washington\, DC (2004-2006)\, senior economist at the African\, European and Western Hemisphere Departments\, and Representative for Brazil and Bolivia at the International Monetary Fund (2006 – 2013). Fernández Valdovinos is part of the Board of Directors of the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) and Governor of Paraguay before the International Monetary Fund. Both in 2015 and 2016\, he was a recipient of the “Best Central Banker Award” by Global Finance Magazine. Co-sponsors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; HKS Spanish Caucus; the Latinx Caucus; and the Latin American Caucus Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/nurturing-economic-growth-what-should-latam-countries-do-under-the-new-normal/ LOCATION:Starr Auditorium\, 2nd Floor Belfer\, HKS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR