Ready for Reinvention

Ira A. Jackson is former Director of the Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he previously served as Senior Associate Dean during the school’s formative years. Jackson has also served as Dean and Professor of Management at the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University and Dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Global and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue under Gov. Michael Dukakis, and Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Kevin White. He currently serves as a strategy consultant to a number of major corporations and runs a cross-training program for executives from the public and private sectors.