Center for Social Innovation

In the New York Times, Jake Harriman, MBA '08, explains how he now fights terrorism by trying to bring choices to extremely poor Kenyans. "We can't just stop with a single terrorist; we have to root out the whole system. We have to go after poverty."

With gasoline prices spiking, a presidential election looming in the fall, and recent failures at reaching sweeping global agreements on environmental policy, the Obama Administration is heading into this summer’s Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development with modest goals, looking for areas of broad agreement and civic engagement that can be touted as populist environmental progress.