Senior Fellow Richard Reeves published a new op-ed piece about the midterm election results entitled "President Mau Mau in the White House". In his article, Reeves discusses how the GOP dominated the House elections and what this could mean for the Democrats once the elections are over. The article can be read in full at MetroWest Daily…….Continue Reading Reeves new article in Metro West Daily
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Bennis on CTV News website
CTV News wrote a profile on Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis, noting him amongst the most influential leadership scholars in the world alongside James Kouzes and Barry Posner. The article also notes lessons learned from Bennis' newest book, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership…….Continue Reading Bennis on CTV News website
Businessman of the World Unite
LOS ANGELES — In the early 1980s, in a book called American Journey, I calculated that American corporate chief executive officers were making 30 to 40 times as much as they paid average production workers. Looking back at that, I see that I was surprised to learn that that ratio had increased from 25-to-1 in 1970 — and that in other developed countries the ratio was closer to 10-to-1. It seems now that I was easily shocked in the good old days. Today that compensation ratio goes from 300-to-1 to almost 1,000-to-1 in the United States, if you count various……Continue Reading Businessman of the World Unite
Baer talks new season of Law and Order:SVU
Neal Baer, Senior Fellow, spoke with entertainment website Zap2It about the latest news on the upcoming season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He discusses the guest stars slated to enter the station this fall as well as other plot twists and turns that will take place during the show's 12th year…….Continue Reading Baer talks new season of Law and Order:SVU
Parks mentioned in OJR article on Alhambra Project
The Alhambra Project, led by Faculty Fellow Michael Parks has officially launched online at www.alhambrasource.org. Parks began this project with support from the Annenberg Foundation in order to investigate how local news coverage could better serve communities with low levels of civic engagement. An article about this project can be read at The Online Journalism Review…….Continue Reading Parks mentioned in OJR article on Alhambra Project
Bennis in Southern Business Journal
Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis' leadership lessons were featured in an article in the Southern Business Journal entitled "Authenticity: The confidence connection."……Continue Reading Bennis in Southern Business Journal
Schell in The Nation – China in the Driver's Seat
"It's almost as if the continental plates of global politics are shifting beneath our feet," says Orville Schell, Senior Fellow. He spoke with Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation for an article titled "China in the Driver's Seat"…….Continue Reading Schell in The Nation – China in the Driver's Seat
Wikipedia & The Future of News at AEJMC
At the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication conference in Denver on August 6, 2010, Senior Fellows Adam Clayton Powell III and David Westphal presented their latest findings on "The Future of News". Powell's also released an addition to his 2006 publication, Reinventing Local News, entitled Reinventing Local News: 2010, and is available to read on our blog…….Continue Reading Wikipedia & The Future of News at AEJMC
TIP team prepares findings after research trip to Mekong Sub-Region
The Center on Communication Leadership & Policy's research team of Mark Latonero and Erin Kamler have returned from a fruitful exploratory trip for the Technology and Trafficking in Person project the Center is launching in Southeast Asia. According to a report prepared by the research team, an information sharing platform could provide significant assistance to agencies and organizations working to combat human trafficking in the Region. The full report of their findings can be downloaded here . Latonero and Kamler are working with Senior Fellow Jeremy Curtin to move the project forward after a promising start. From August 8 to……Continue Reading TIP team prepares findings after research trip to Mekong Sub-Region
We need more diplomats … and time to train them
When President Obama said, "Our commitment in Iraq is changing – from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats," he underscored a fact that has become very clear from the research I am doing for the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Stimson Center in Washington on preparing our diplomats for 21st century statecraft. A key message of our research to date is the absolute necessity for Congress to continue funding a surge in State Department hiring – an initiative launched in 2009 called Diplomacy 3.0 – so that we have not……Continue Reading We need more diplomats … and time to train them