For our first SADG meeting of 2023 we would like to explore the pros and cons of being older. There has been a lot written about the subject of Ageism and we are suggesting below a few of the best short reads on the subject to spark our discussion. But even if you have little […]
Join fellow members of the HBS community to share your opinions and discuss the US Supreme Court and how declining faith in the institution is impacting the state of our democracy. Is the Supreme Court broken? For the first time since Gallup started asking the question over 50 years ago, more than half of those […]
Do the rules that structure our government, built from the Constitution, still fit the times? There is wide agreement across America on compelling concerns such as abortion, gun control, immigration, the power of money to influence our politicians, and the alleged excess power of certain bureaucracies. Yet the Congress has remained stalemated about them over […]
Harvard Business School celebrates Black History Month with a conversation with Bonnie Boswell (Harvard University 1972), the niece of Whitney Young, award winning journalist and executive producer of The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights. Boswell will discuss the leadership lessons of Whitney Young, one of the most celebrated and controversial Black leaders of the civil […]
Political, social, and cultural polarization in America, which has been discussed in previous sessions, has been accompanied by dramatic differences in what people believe is true. Disagreement on matters of empirical fact can lead to the spread of falsehoods, whether intentional (disinformation) or not (misinformation). Vaccines cause autism and sterility. Ukraine is run by Nazis. […]