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Kentaro Toyama’s profile on The Conversation

This provocative and stimulating faculty presentation kicks off a TigerTalks series focusing on social entrepreneurship and impact investing. This is one of the major themes of the 2023 slate of TigerTalks events scheduled throughout the year. Over the past decade we've witnessed an increasing desire among our students and the larger Princeton community to participate directly in creating a more just world. This talk will draw on the speaker's firsthand experience at the frontlines of social entrepreneurship to understand what is broken in existing entrepreneurial ecosystems and how ...

The Chelsea Police Department and the MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative Leadership collaborated this past spring on a unique police training program looking to build empathy and compassion into implicit bias training programs. Acting on an existing relationship with the MIT Center that was used to form the innovative Chelsea HUB model, both organizations brought the program to the Chelsea Police and three other departments for six weeks of training in how to add new tools to keep situations from escalating on the street – and to take police departments into more of a direction of com...

The National Herald The National Herald      ATHENS -- 2020 left us with both an indelible sense of the need for flexibility in laying plans, and a persistent commitment to strive for a brighter future. While we have all felt disconnected from our daily habits and social distancing took its toll on human interaction, we all share the same anticipation for a better tomorrow. Creativity, arts, and dialogue have proven more valuable than ever and have helped us find new ways to connect with one another. In this spirit, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is planning to hold our much-loved...

Harvard announced the candidates nominated for positions on the Board of Overseers — the University’s second-highest governing body — and for elected directorships in the Harvard Alumni Association on Tuesday. The Board of Overseers is responsible for providing input on decisions about the direction of the University, advising top Harvard administrators, and approving certain actions by the University’s highest governing board, the Harvard Corporation. Its members serve six-year terms. The eight Harvard alumni contending for the five anticipated vacancies on the Board work...