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To our readers, I begin my second year as dean exhilarated by the remarkable work done by our alumni, our faculty, and our staff. I am also cognizant of the many challenges facing people and nations around the world and the opportunities for the Kennedy School to do even more to make a difference. Tackling poverty and underdevelopment, building democracies, strengthening international relations and ensuring security, working to ensure that markets work effectively in the public interest, and solving so many other important problems will require even more creative and rigorous thinking, as well as outstanding leadership. Advancing the public interest will mean not only making government work well. It will require involvement of the public sector, civil society, and the business sector. We need enlightened leadership and superb, practical scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries of sectors, of disciplines, of schools, of academia and practice, and of national borders. Last winter we surveyed our alumni and found that most of the nearly 5,000 respondents spent time in multiple sectors, and that many have spent time working for business. Thus in addition to highlighting the exceptional government and nonprofit work of our graduates, this issue highlights some of the ways our alumni are making the world a better place while working in the private sector. In the following pages you will read about some of these alumni — like Marika McCauley Sine MPP 2005, who believes the private sector offers her greater opportunities for doing good; Keith Fitzgerald MPA 1999, whose work in negotiation training is benefiting both the public and private arenas; and Deborah Patterson S&L 1986, who promotes social responsibility in the corporate world. This issue also includes a tribute to economist, writer, and professor John Kenneth Galbraith. His own life of both intellectual excellence and active public engagement are an inspiration to many. And he has always held the school in very high regard. He calls the founding of the school “the most significant institutional development at Harvard in the 20th century.” Together we will achieve even more during the 21st. Warmly,
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