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Wed, Nov 5, 2014 from 12:00pm — 02:00pm
VENUE
Larsen Hall 106
ADDRESS
Larsen Hall 106
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Shridhar Venkat, CEO, Akshaya Patra Foundation; Eisenhower Fellow The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-directed school meal program, feeding 1.4 million children every day. To advance its vision that “No child in India will be deprived of education because of hunger”, the Foundation operates out of 22 locations throughout India, serving almost 11,000 […]
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Thu, Oct 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
SAI Education Seminar Tara Beteille, World Bank Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School This paper provides a detailed account of how the system of teacher transfers operates in large parts of India. It presents evidence to suggest that teacher transfers form the bedrock of a patronage-based low-accountability school system. Politicians need teachers because teachers are […]
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Tue, Sep 30, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
Education Seminar Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business and a founder of Ashoka University Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School “Everyone knows Indian Higher Education is a mess. Proposals for its transformation abound, but things continue to go from bad to worse. Despite the doom and gloom, there are […]
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Tue, Feb 18, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Education Seminar Devesh Kapur, Associate Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Higher Education in India is going through profound changes, not […]
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Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 02:30pm — 04:30pm
VENUE
CGIS Knafel K031
ADDRESS
CGIS Knafel K031
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Education Seminar Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Chair: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (Brown Watson Institute, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and MIT Center for International Studies)
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Fri, Apr 4, 2014 from 09:00am — 04:30pm
Women in India: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Keynote Speaker: Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University Closing speaker: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and Director of the Harvard South Asia Institute Established in 2008, Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) is a group […]
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Tue, Oct 22, 2013 from 03:00pm — 04:00pm
Professor Anil Gupta, founder of the Honey Bee Network, will deliver a talk titled “India Changing: searching and supporting innovation insurgents.” The talk will focus on the ecosystem of inclusive innovations emerging in India, with global implications. There will be examples from five focii of innovations: children, tech students, informal sector, professionals and public systems.
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Fri, Oct 4, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Education Seminar Abhimanyu Singh, Director and Representative, UNESCO Office Beijing Discussant: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the Asia Center Modern Asia Seminar While much international attention has been paid to the recent rapid rise of China and India in economic terms, there has been relatively little focus on their […]
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Mon, Oct 21, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Social Enterprise and Education Seminar John Wood, founder and board co-chair of Room to Read Chair: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at Harvard University Cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education International Education Policy Program Over 60 million primary school-aged […]
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Fri, Sep 20, 2013 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm
Education Seminar Series Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School Discussant: Akshay Mangla, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Cosponsored with the International Education Policy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most […]
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 from 08:30am — 11:00am
Seminars, Student Seminar, Education, Social Enterprise, _temp, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in Pakistan Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy Imran Sarwar, Co-Founder, Rabtt; MPP Class of 2013, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Seminar Report: The third Video Conference of the new SAI Series of Webinars focused on ‘Innovation in Education: Lessons for […]
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Mon, Apr 1, 2013 from 08:30am — 10:00am
Education as a Marketplace: What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Research on Pakistan’s Education Sector Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Professor of International Finance and Development. Faculty chair of the MPA/ID program, Harvard Kennedy School Mariam Chughtai, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education In the fourth and final Video […]
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