Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Kennedy School’s
Taubman Center for State and Local Government and adjunct lecturer
in public policy. He serves as faculty cochair of the executive
program on Crisis Management and of the program for Beijing senior
officials and teaches in several other KSG executive programs. For
four years he directed KSG’s research program on domestic
preparedness for terrorism. Howitt served on an Institute of
Medicine panel that authored Preparing for Terrorism, and is
coauthor and coeditor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of
Preparedness. Howitt’s other research focuses on transportation and
environmental regulation.
Herman B. Leonard is George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public
Management at the Kennedy School and professor of business
administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches leadership,
organizational strategy, crisis management, and financial
management. His current research concentrates on crisis management,
corporate social responsibility, and performance management. He is
a member of the boards of directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care,
of the ACLU of Massachusetts, and of the Hitachi Foundation. He was
formerly a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts
Health and Education Facilities Authority and of Civic Investments,
a nonprofit organization that assists charitable enterprises with
capital financing; a member of the Research and Education Advisory
Panel of the General Accounting Office; a member of the
Massachusetts Performance Enhancement Commission; and a member of
the Alaska Governor’s Council on Economic Policy. He served as
Chair of the Massachusetts Governor’s Task Force on Tuition
Prepayment Plans.
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