Please contact Joanne Needham at (603) 646-2207 if you have any questions.
The Center hosts a variety of visitors throughout the academic year to stimulate discussion on regional, national, and international affairs. In the 2011-2012 academic year, the Center was able to assemble an impressive array of speakers including: Jim Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Professor of History, Dartmouth College; David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General; Peter Orzag, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration; Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University; Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States; and Paul Hodes, former U.S. House of Representative (D-NH).
See a complete list of our past public programs, as well as a list of our Named Lectures.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Class of 1930 Fellow
Global Insights Distinguished Speaker
Unemployment and Debt
Georgiopoulos Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business
5:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the Center for Global Business and Government at Tuck School of Business
Peter Diamond Peter Diamond is an American economist acclaimed for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy. He is currently serving as an Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institution where he has been since 1966. In 2010, Diamond was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their analysis of the foundation of search markets. Prior to researching search markets, he worked as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s and a consultant in Congressional Finance Committee hearings. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, being a founder of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Diamond's numerous publications cover tax and social security policy, with his last two books on the subject, Pension Reform: A Short Guide and Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices, being published in 2010 and 2008, respectively. He graduated summa cum laude to receive his B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.
The Portman Lecture Series
Leveraging Differences for Business Impact
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
4:30 pm
Co-sponsored with Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), and Office of Pluralism & Leadership (OPAL)
In support of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Jane Hyun
Global Leadership Expert; Founder and President, Hyun & Associates; Author of "Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling"
Jane Hyun, author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, and founder and president of Hyun & Associates, is an executive coach and leadership strategist to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and professional associations. Prior to starting her consulting firm, she was a Vice President of HR at JP Morgan and Director of Recruiting at Deloitte & Touche and Resources Global. She has advised senior management teams and diversity councils on the importance of leading effective multicultural teams. Hyun is continually sought after for her expertise in the area of talent management of women and multicultural professionals. Her work has received international recognition and Hyun appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio, and Marketwatch, as well as in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Chief Executive, and other media. A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in economics/international studies, she serves on the Women's Alumnae Council, is an advisor to the Toigo Foundation, and is an advisor to the Hidden Brain Drain Taskforce, the organization which authored recent Harvard Business Review studies, "Off-Ramps/On-Ramps," "Sin Fronteras," "Female Talent in Emerging Markets," and "The Sponsor Effect." Hyun's groundbreaking book, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, opened up a critical dialogue for the need for a culturally grounded talent development approach for organizations.
