Archive for April 2010 – Page 4

SAO to the OCS in the IAB

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Monday, April 12th, 2010 
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SIPA, like most organizations, is not immune to acronyms and slang.  The title for this entry might sound like a line from a rap song. It would not be uncommon to hear something like the following around our building:

“After I got out of my SAO appointment I had to drop by OCS to talk about my EPD project and integration of my APEA work.  Then I had to get to the penthouse of IAB and for my PMF meeting and you know what that’s like during rush hour.  To top it all off, the elevator was lit up like a Christmas tree.”

Translation . . .

“”After I got out of my Student Affairs Office appointment I had to drop by the Office of Career Services to talk about my Economic and Political Development project and integration of my Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis work.  Then I had to get to the 15th floor of the International Affairs Building and for my Presidential Management Fellows meeting you know what that’s like during the change between classes.  To top it all off, every single button in the elevator had been pressed meaning we would have to stop on all floors on the way up.”

Speaking of OCS, they send out a weekly newsletter and here are just some highlights from the recent edition:

OCS Highlights of the Week

  • • Need help funding your internship abroad? Let OCS help you! See page 4 for more details.
  • • Please share your employment news with OCS by using our new Report a Hire feature on SIPAlink.

See page 3 for details.

Dean’s Breakfast Series: Chris Osborne,

CEO of Troika Dialog USA

The Dean’s Office and the Office of Career Services announce the sixth

in a series of breakfast and career conversations with prominent professionals.

Please join us for breakfast and a career conversation with

Mr. Chris Osborne, CEO of Troika Dialog USA, and Dean John

Coatsworth on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 8:00 to 9:00am in 1501

IAB.

Overseas Security and Abduction Prevention

(OSAP) Seminar

Back by popular demand, the SIPA Office of Career Services presents

The MASY Group’s Overseas Security and Abduction Prevention

(OSAP) Seminar for students of International/Public Affairs, Business

and Journalism who are destined for Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflict

or high risk areas. Space is limited. The event will take place in the OCS Conference

Room on Thursday, April 15, 2010, from 2:00 to 3:00pm.Register on

SIPALink and please send a 50 word e-mail statement of need to:

[email protected] by Monday, April 12, 2010.

Social Media: Networking to Advance Your

Career

Topics include:

– The differences between “personal” and “business” social media.

– Engaging your business network using social media.

– Business networking net-iquette.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

151 East 25th Street , 7th Floor

(between Lexington and 3rd Ave.)

Registration 5:00 PM

To RSVP:

Please go online to www.baruch.edu/spa and click on the event

Sponsored by the Baruch College Alumni Relations Office,

SPA Alumni Committee, and SPA Career Services Office.

SIPASA Happy Hour, Sponsored by OCS

SIPASA, OCS and the Alumni Relations Office invite you to your final

happy hour on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Come grab one last drink,

network, and share your work experience and your future plans in NYC,

DC, and beyond! In preparation for the happy hour, please provide us

with any of your past experience and your career plan that you wish to

share by completing the form through this link:

http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ALUM/networking

Chris Hill MPA Internship Grant

SIPASA is pleased to honor the life of former MPA student, Christopher

Hill, with a scholarship fund for continuing MPA students undertaking

public interest summer internships with government or nonprofit organizations.

Christopher died in March 2000, while still studying at SIPA,

after a courageous battle with cancer. Christopher’s friends and family

created and funded the first year of the scholarship. MPASA fundraised

to continue the scholarship in subsequent years. SIPASA took over this

scholarship in 2007 with the merger of MPASA into SIPASA. The Dean

of SIPA continues to match any funds raised by students for this scholarship.

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Yellow Ribbon Program

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Friday, April 9th, 2010 
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SIPA is proud to be a participant in the Yellow Ribbon Program, a financial aid opportunity under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.  Interested Veterans will need to complete two steps to qualify.  First is to file paperwork with the Department of Veterans Affairs and second is to submit a Web based form to SIPA.  The funding is based on a first-come, first-served basis and applicants will be ranked by when they apply for the program via the Web based form supplied by SIPA.

We are currently working on getting the form set up and when we have more information on when it will become available we will post information to this blog as well as send an email to the email address supplied by applicants when they applied.  Stay tuned for more information.  A general overview of the program is available on the Columbia University Student Financial Services Web site.

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A New York Minute

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Thursday, April 8th, 2010 
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You may have heard the expression “New York minute” before.  The long time host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, once described a New York Minute this way:

“It’s the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn.”

The expression is meant to convey a hectic and busy pace, and you could say that events at SIPA seem to happen almost every minute.  Here is the latest update on current and upcoming events at SIPA.

Monday, April 5 – Sunday, April 11

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED EVENT

April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
SIPA, International Media And Communications
Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media & Economic Understanding
with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz,
associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf
and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

Monday, April 5
April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Modern Tibetan Studies Brown Bag Conversation: Cinema in Tibet with Pema Tseden and Rigden Gyatso, filmmakers
International Affairs Building, Room 918

April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: Daniil Andreev: The idea of integration of the global cultural space with Dmitri Ahtyrsky, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University. In Russian.
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

April 5, 2010 from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Middle East Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Turkey’s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan: End of the Dance? with Alexander Murinson, author of “Turkey’s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan.”
Knox Hall, Room 207 606 West 122nd Street (between Claremont and Broadway Avenues)

April 5, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA, Economic and Political Development
Brown Bag: With Sienna Baskin, Staff Attorney of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
International Affairs Building, Rm. 1401

April 5, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
SIPA, International Economic Policy
IFEP & APEC Study Center Distinguished Speaker Series: China’s Currency and U.S.-China Relations
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

Tuesday, April 6
April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
SIPA, International Media And Communications
Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media & Economic Understanding with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

April 6, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: Kosovo’s Difficult Future: Challenges Ahead with Ilir Deda, Executive Director, Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED)
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

April 6, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture:: The Slippery Matter of Trademarks: Copycat Soap Companies, the Question of Authenticity, and Sino-British Diplomacy in 1930s China.from the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society.” Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Legal Studies (CCLS) at Columbia Law School.
Jerome Greene Hall Case Lounge, Room 701

April 6, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
SIPA, Economic and Political Development
Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series: Building Partnerships for Social Ventures with Yasmina Zaidman, Director of Communications, Acumen Fund. Reception to follow.
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

April 6, 2010 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
SIPA, Student Group
Talk: The Face of the Voiceless: Iraqi Orphan Initiative. Please join us to learn about the sad realities on the ground for Iraqi orphans and learn how you can help. Co-sponsored by the Network of Arab American Professionals of NY (NAAP-NY).
International Affairs Building, Room 410

Wednesday, April 7
April 7, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Harriman Institute
BookTalk: with by Pauline Jones Luong, Brown University.
The discussion will on the author’s new book (written with Erika Weinthal, Duke University) entitled “Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States” (forthcoming), This is a meeting of the Comparative Politics Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the Department of Political Science.
International Affairs Building, Lindsay Rogers Room (7th Floor)

April 7, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
SIPA, Human Rights Working Group
Panel Discussion: Raise Hope for Congo addresses the conflict in eastern Congo, specifically the scourge of conflict minerals and the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the region. With John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, Roger Luhiri, a former fistula doctor at Panzi Hospital in DRC and Lisa Jackson, director of the film The Greatest Silence about rape in the Congo.
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

Thursday, April 8
April 8, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Recent Trends in Divorce and Divorce Law in Hong Kong, with Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

April 8, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Middle East Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: The Lineages of the Neo-Mamluk State with Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at Columbia University
Knox Hall, Room 208 606 W. 122nd St.

April 8, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
SIPA, UN Studies Program
UNSP Working Lunch: The Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives from the Non-Aligned Movement with the Ambassadors of Egypt and Cuba
Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN

April 8, 2010 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies
Grand Rounds: With Dr. Richard Warner, internationally recognized by the mental health care community as a leader in schizophrenia treatment and recovery research and development.
Columbia Medical Center Psychiatric Institute All-Purpose Room, 6th Fl., Rm 6602 168th Street and Haven Avenue

April 8, 2010 from 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Lecture: Czech Writers Under Siege and Czech Literary History with Professor Holý, Institute for Czech Literature and Literary Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Co-sponsored with Columbia University’s Slavic Department.
International Affairs Building, Room 1510

April 8, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Talk: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics or Did We Ask the Wrong Question with David Monk, NERA Economic Consulting
Hamilton Hall, Room 503

April 8, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Screenings and Commentary: Revisiting Soviet TV with Jonathan Sanders, a consultant on international broadcasting and Russian affairs. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

Friday, April 9
April 9, 2010 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Earth Institute
New York City Water Summit: With academic, governmental and industrial leaders in the fields of “drinking water” and “waste water”
International Affairs Building, Altschul Auditorium

April 9, 2010 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Workshop: Convened by the Harriman Institute and co-sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

April 9, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: Tailoring seasonal climate forecasts for hydropower operations in Ethiopia’s upper Blue Nile basin with Paul Block, Associate Research Scientist, Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Management, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
Register

April 9, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Freedom and Democracy Twenty Years After – Are we there yet? The Czech Republic in Europe and in the World with a keynote address by Jan Fischer, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
Light lunch will be served. Online registration is required
International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, 15th Floor
Register

April 9, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk:The Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 and its Legacy: A Yugoslav Perspective with Dejan Djokic, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History; Director, Centre for the Study of the Balkans Goldsmiths College, University of London. Co-sponsored by the Njego Endowment for Serbian Language & Culture at Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

Saturday, April 10
April 10, 2010, All-Day Event
Harriman Institute
Third Annual OASIES Student Conference: Power and Movement Across Asia, presented by the Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University
International Affairs Building, Room 707

April 10, 2010 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Conference: Georgian Modernism with panels covering Tbilisi Avant-Garde Art and its Cultural Milieu and Georgian Modernism and its Development
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

Sunday, April 11
No Events Scheduled

UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, April 12 – Sunday, May 2

Monday, April 12
April 12, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
South Asian Institute
Distinguished Lecturer Series: Brahman communities and the making of social critique in western India, c. 1600-1850 by Rosalind O’Hanlon,Oxford University
Knox Hall, Room 208 606 West 122nd Street between Broadway and Claremont Avenue

April 12, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Committee on Global Thought
Discussion:Financial Market Reform with Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ; and Joseph Stiglitz, Chairman of the Committee of Global Thought.
Low Library Rotunda
Register

April 12, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Book Signing: with Nicholas D. Kristof. two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times
Journalism Building Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor

Tuesday, April 13
April 13, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: The Exclusionary Rule in a State of Flux: China, Taiwan, and the United States with Margaret K. Lewis. The lecture is a part of the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society”
Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, Room 701

Wednesday, April 14
April 14, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture:The Politics of Presence: Voice, Deity Possession, and Dilemmas of Development Among Tibetans, with Charlene Makley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

Thursday, April 15
April 15, 2010 from 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Modern Tibetan Studies Film Screening: The Silent Holy Stones from the series “Soul-Searching in Tibet – Films by Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan)”
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021

Friday, April 16
April 16, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: An Integrated Framework for Analysis of Water Supply in a Developing World City with Veena Srinivasan, Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
Register

Monday, April 19
April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University
International Affairs Building, Room 918

April 19, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Panel Discussion: Private Lives of Public Women – Disrupting the Figure of the Prostitute in South Korea, with Sealing Cheng, Wellesley College; Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College; Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University; and Carole S. Vance, Columbia University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University
International Affairs Building, Room 918

Wednesday, April 21
April 21, 2010 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Harriman Institute
Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Jeri Laber, Russian Insitute ’54, Founder of Human Rights Watch
Pupin Laboratories 301

April 21, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: The Moscow Kremlin Museum: Who needs this museum? with Svetlana Kostanyan, Kremlin Museum Research Library
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

April 21, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Discussion: Old Print Journalism Meets New Media Theory with Yassen Zassoursky, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University versus his grandson Ivan Zassoursky, Director of the New Media Department. Part of the Media Dialogues Across Boundaries series (Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World)
Faculty House, Presidential Room 2

Thursday, April 22
April 22, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program
Working Lunch: Environmental Restoration: a Tool for Peace Building in Serbia
The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street)
Register

Friday, April 23
April 23, 2010, All Day Event
SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program
Environmental Conflict Resolution Series: Environment as a Source of Cooperation in Iraq – Local and Regional Perspectives
The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street)
Register

April 23, 2010 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: With Paolo D’Odorico, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
Register

Monday, April 26
April 26, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute
Annual Mary Keating Das Lecture: No Longer Pakistani, Not Yet Indian — Migration and the Meaning of Citizenship with Niraja Gopal Jayal (Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Knox Hall, Room 208

Tuesday, April 27
April 27, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Screenings and Commentary: Soviet TV with Donna Bahry, Department of Political Science, Penn State University. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

Wednesday, April 28
April 28, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk: Democratization v. Reconciliation: Post-Nationalist Memories of the Battle of Kosovo with Dr. Anna Di Lellio, commentator and policy analyst on post-war Kosovo, author of “The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic” (I.B. Tauris 2009) and the editor of “The Case for Kosova. A Passage to Independence” (Anthem Press 2006).
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

April 28, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm a
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute
Discussion: With Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Co-Director of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy.
Knox Hall, Room 509

Thursday, April 29
April 29, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Book Discussion: Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace with Dominic Lieven, Professor of History at the London School of Economics. Co-sponsored by the Dual Master’s Degree Program in International and World History and the European Institute.
International Affairs Building, Lehman Center, Room 406

April 29, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Seminar: With Sanjay Reddy, New School for Social Research
Hamilton Hall, Room 503

Friday, April 30
April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: China in the 21st Century – A Cultural Historian’s Take on Contemporary Events and Contemporary Dilemmas with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar:With Douglas James, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
Register

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5:00 pm on Wednesday.

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Policy Professional Training – For All Sectors

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 
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Graduates of our program go in a lot of different directions.  Policy training can benefit those interested in all three major sectors: profit, not-for-profit, and public.  A policy based mindset can help individuals succeed in all walks of life, and policy training can actually open doors.

Recently Sandhya Chari, a current student that used to work at Google and is now pursuing Economic and Political Development at SIPA, took a moment to interview Gabriel Stricker, an alumnus of our program currently working employed with the storied company.

GabrielStrickerName: Gabriel Stricker
Degree Program: MIA
Concentration: IFB (now International Finance and Economic Policy)
Graduation Year: 2001
Current Position: Director, Global Communications & Public Affairs
Organization Name: Google, Inc.
Organization Location (city, country): Mountain View, CA

Describe your background prior to attending SIPA?

Before attending SIPA I worked on political campaigns – some international, some in the US.  Nearly all of them were for underdog, progressive candidates… and many of them lost.

What are you doing now?

I’m currently Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google, where I head Search communications – addressing everything from web search and other search properties (such as Maps, Earth, News and Books) to issues pertaining to partnerships, content, and the use of intellectual property.

Why did you choose to attend at SIPA?

I really wanted to get a solid grasp of finance and business, but in the context of international affairs.  It was clear to me that the theories of commerce and trade were best understood in that context rather than in a vacuum.  I was also impressed that International Affairs students had to have fluency in a second language.  That prerequisite alone made for a diverse student population, and one in which people approached things differently if only because they brought some entirely different worldview to the table.

What was it like to attend graduate school/work in New York City?

It was just amazing.  You’d read about folks in the New York Times one morning, and that night they’d give a lecture in your class – or maybe they’d actually be teaching your class!  I’ll never forget taking finance and accounting from Andrew Danzig who was an adjunct in the evening, and by day was a financial analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank.  It was incredible to get instruction from someone who was putting the principles he taught into practice every single day.

What’s your most vivid impression or recollection of SIPA?

I remember taking a course on privatization, and our professor began the class by explaining that he had just flown in from Russia where he had been providing guidance on privatizing its telecommunications industry.  There were so many times when instructors’ real-time experiences were far more compelling than any textbook could ever achieve.

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A Typical Day . . .

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Monday, April 5th, 2010 
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I don’t know that any day at SIPA is considered “typical” – to me it seems like every day here is a major conference.  Every bill board in the building is plastered several layers deep with fliers promoting panels, events, and discussions of all sorts.  However, Anesa Diaz-Uda, a second-year MPA student, put the following together to describe a recent day in her life as a SIPA student . . .

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I’ve been spending some time on the Message Board, and thought answering, “What’s a typical day like?” might be helpful.  Well, here’e my schedule from a recent Thursday:

8-11: Capstone Project

My team and I went to the Mexican Consulate to meet with the Consulate General’s Chief-of-Staff.  We were welcomed, and then left the Mexican Consulate to visit the Guatemalan and Peruvian Consulates.  At each Consulate, we went over the various processes, services and products delivered, and met with each respective Consulate General.  It was a fast, but great fact finding mission.  Hopefull we can use the information garnered to offer a fuller comparative study for our final product.

12-2:  Lecture at SIPA with Stiglitz, Patnaik, Sundaran and Lin

I’ve seen Stiglitz a few times, but always enjoy another opportunity to hear about his work.  Here’s a blurb from the website about the lecture I attended.

The Continuing Financial Crisis: Perspectives from the North and the South

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:00pm – Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

This talk on “Taking Stock of the Financial Crisis” will feature Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laurette and University Professor at Columbia University; Prabhat Patnaik, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Founder and Chair of International Development Economics Associates and Board member of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, Geneva, and Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.

The Heyman Center always has great events, and here’s a link to this specific lecture, but will allow to jump to other resources and events.

http://www.heymancenter.org/events.php?id=166

2-4: Management Seminar with Thoman

This course meets once a week, has 16 students and is typically a round table discussion with Professor Rick Thoman (former Executive Officer at American Express, CFO at IBM CFO and most recently CEO of Xerox).  Professor Thoman also holds three graduate degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts, so is familiar with the international affairs degree.  He offers keen and honest insight and advice, and it’s been a really enjoyable class.  The course is offered at SIPA, and is called “Managing the Global Corporation.”  Specific topics include:

• Why have Global Companies developed?

• What is the creative destruction model and why is it important?

• What different models exist in this development?

• What is corporate culture and why is it important?

• Why is management talent so critical?

• What are the future trends and issues facing global companies?

• What are business models? How are they specified?

4-5:  Consult with Professor Thoman privately about my final class project, and then head home.

5-6: Walk my dog in Central Park.

6-8: Do some schoolwork while cooking dinner, and eat with my boyfriend.

8:30-10:30: Meet some girlfriends from SIPA to get ready for the SIPASA Spring Fling Party.

11-2: SIPASA Spring Fling Party at Cabana at Maritime Hotel.  It was a blast.

Here’s a link to the hotel’s website:

http://www.themaritimehotel.com/cabanas.html

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