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U.S. News Media Group and Harvard's Center for Public Leadership Announce America's Best Leaders for 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
--As America prepares for change, U.S. News and CPL highlight the qualities of extraordinary leaders--
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation's leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, in association with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School (CPL), today released the 2008 edition of America's Best Leaders, available online at www.usnews.com/leaders and on newsstands Monday, November 24.
Featuring some of the country's most visionary individuals, the Best Leaders issue highlights professionals who continue to offer optimism and hope through their work, even as public confidence in leadership continues to drop, as reported in recent polling results released by CPL.
The 2008 National Leadership Index, which measures public confidence in leadership across societal sectors, found that 80% of Americans believe that the U.S. faces a leadership crisis today, a number that has increased each year since the study began in 2005. However, Americans also placed significant importance on the 2008 election with 77% believing it mattered a great deal for the future of the country.
"Even though Americans have lost confidence in current leadership, over the past year they have had unique opportunities to observe and debate the qualities of strong leaders," said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "With our Best Leaders issue, we widen the lens to examine people who are showing leadership in unexpected ways across a wide variety of fields."
U.S. News Media Group's issue of America's Best Leaders features 24 of the country's foremost professionals, including:
-- Lance Armstrong, Champion Cyclist; Founder, Lance Armstrong Foundation
(Austin, TX)
-- David Baltimore, Ph.D., Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and
Former President, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate
(California)
-- Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bayou La
Batre Rural Health Clinic, Alabama (Bayou La Batre, AL)
-- Jeff Bezos, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Amazon.com (Seattle)
-- Terence Blanchard and Herbie Hancock, Artistic Director and Chairman,
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Arts (Washington, D.C.)
-- Benjamin Carson, M.D., Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins
University (Baltimore)
-- Manuel Diaz, Mayor, City of Miami (Miami)
-- Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President, Children's Defense
Fund (Washington, D.C.)
-- Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Disease (Bethesda, MD)
-- Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, Cofounders, Knowledge Is Power Program
(San Francisco)
-- Robert Gates, Ph.D., United States Secretary of Defense (Washington,
D.C.)
-- Fiona Harrison, Ph.D., and Maria Zuber, Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy
Professor at Caltech and the Chief Investigator for NASA's Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array Mission (Pasadena, CA); Chair of the
department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Professor of
Geophysics at MIT and the Principal Investigator for NASA's Gravity
Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission Science (Cambridge, MA)
-- Freeman Hrabowski III, Ph.D., President, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County (Baltimore)
-- Amory B. Lovins, Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute (Snowmass, CO)
-- Anne Mulcahy, Chief Executive Officer, Xerox (Norwalk, CT)
-- Indra Nooyi, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo. (Purchase, NY)
-- Linda Rottenberg, Chief Executive Officer and cofounder, Endeavor (New
York)
-- Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., Economist, Author, Director, UN Millennium
Project, the Earth Institute, Columbia University (New York)
-- Steven Spielberg, Director and Producer, Founder, Universal, DreamWorks,
The Shoah Foundation (California)
-- Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor, San Francisco Symphony; Founder, New
World Symphony Arts (San Francisco)
-- U.S. Junior Officers, U.S. Armed Forces (United States)
"These leaders are creatively working to address the country's most pressing needs," said Kelly. "Consider Marian Wright Edelman's advocacy for the disadvantaged, Dr. Anthony Fauci's work in transforming the field of medicine and public health, Lance Armstrong's fight to inspire and empower cancer patients--these leaders demonstrate innovation and perseverance at an important time in the nation's history."
In a collaborative effort between U.S. News and Harvard's CPL, the leaders were selected by a nonpartisan and independent committee, convened and organized by the Center, without the participation of U.S. News editors. The selection criteria used by the committee in choosing the honorees included the ability to set direction, achieve results, and cultivate a culture of growth.
About the Center for Public Leadership
Established in 2000 through a generous gift from the Wexner Foundation, the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School provides cutting-edge teaching and research as well as hands-on training in the skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business. For more information, go to: www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership
About the U.S. News Media Group
The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes U.S. News & World Report magazine, www.usnews.com, and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education, and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use(R) brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.
SOURCE U.S. News Media Group
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