
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock
Sun, Sep 22
|University Club
Leadership Now Project, the HBS Club of DC, and the Harvard Kennedy School DC Alumni Council welcome Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter


Time & Location
Sep 22, 2019, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
University Club, 1135 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Guests
About the event
We are pleased to invite HKS alumni and their guests to join us in welcoming Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter to DC to present The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. This innovative analysis looks at our current political reality through the lens of competition to shed new light on the systemic challenges we face and propose bold and pragmatic solutions.
The presentation will begin promptly at 5:30 and will be followed by brief Q&A.
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Background: In 2016, Katherine Gehl invited Michael Porter, of Harvard Business School, to join her ongoing work on political innovation—as dysfunction in Washington continued to deliver poor results and high dissatisfaction with the U.S. political system. Katherine had applied Michael’s tools for understanding industry competition for the first time to politics, to uncover the root cause of the dysfunction—the failed political competition the parties have created (captured…
Tickets
HKS Alumni
$35.00
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$65.00
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