Center for Public Leadership

Center for Public Leaderhsip
Established 2000
Type Education
Director David Gergen
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Website www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership

The Center for Public Leadership is an academic research center that provides teaching, research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business. It was established in 2000, through a gift from the Wexner Foundation, at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

In January 2008 the center moved from its offices at 124 Mt. Auburn Street to its current location in the Taubman Building on the main campus of Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Faculty affiliates

Fellowships

Five fellowships at Harvard University are currently operated by the center, they include: the Dubin Fellowship for Emerging Leaders, the George Leadership Fellowship, the Gleitsman Leadership Fellowship, Wexner Israel Fellowship, and the Zuckerman Fellowship.

Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change

Through a gift of $20 million from the estate of Alan Gleitsman, the center endowed the Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change in 2007.[1] The program supports the annual Gleitsman International Activist Award and Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award (given on alternating years), Gleitsman Leadership Fellows, and social change scholarship.

Gleitsman International Activist Award winners

Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award winners

Gleitsman visiting practitioners

National leadership index

The Center for Public Leadership publishes an annual survey of Americans' confidence in the leaders, by sector, known as the "National Leadership Index". The survey was first taken in 2005 under the direction of Professor Todd L. Pittinsky, Ph.D., Seth A. Rosenthal, Ph.D., Brian Welle, Ph.D., and R. Matthew Montoya, Ph.D.[6]

Past affiliates

Since its founding in 2000, the Center for Public Leadership has hosted faculty, scholars, and practitioners for appointments ranging in length from one semester to multiple years.

Faculty

Visiting scholars

Fellows

References

  1. Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change
  2. "Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz Wins 2011 Gleitsman International Activist Award". Center for Public Leadership website. Center for Public Leadership. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  3. National Leadership Index – 2005
  4. "Faculty biography". Harvard Business School website. Harvard Business School. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  5. "Andy Zelleke Named Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership". Center for Public Leadership website. Center for Public Leadership. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  6. "Faculty Biography". MIT Sloan website. MIT Sloan School of Management. Retrieved 12 September 2011.