Wharton Club of Chicago has invited Harvard Club to attend a wine and cheese reception and visit with Harvard Professor Stephen Goldsmith. He will discuss his vision of how government can be changed to improve the lives of citizens.

Monday, December, 5, 2016
 

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Stephen Goldsmith is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in Government Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He currently directs Data-Smart City Solutions, a project to highlight local government efforts to use new technologies that connect breakthroughs in the use of big data analytics with community input to reshape the relationship between government and citizen. He also directs the Project on Municipal Innovation, a platform for cities' mayoral senior staff to share and adapt best practices and innovative policy ideas that increase efficiency and improve the lives of citizens, as well as the Civic Analytics Network, which accelerates the use of data and analytics in municipal governance through the sharing of tools and learnings between chief data officers. He previously served as Deputy Mayor of New York and Mayor of Indianapolis, where he earned a reputation as one of the country's leaders in public-private partnerships, competition, and privatization. Stephen was also the chief domestic policy advisor to the George W. Bush campaign in 2000, the Chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the district attorney for Marion County, Indiana from 1979 to 1990. He has written The Power of Social InnovationGoverning by Network: the New Shape of the Public Sector; Putting Faith in Neighborhoods: Making Cities Work through Grassroots CitizenshipThe Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America; and, most recently, The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance.


Monday, December, 5, 2016

5:30 - 6:00
pm Networking, Wine & Cheese Reception

6:00 - 6:45 pm Presentation

6:45 - 7:00 pm Q&A

7:00 - 7:30 pm Networking
 

Cost:    $25  HCC Members and their guests

             $30  NonMembers and their guests
 

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When:

5:30PM - 7:30PM Mon 5 Dec 2016, Central timezone

Where:

Clarity Partners
20 N. Clark Suite 3600
Chicago, IL

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