Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business co-hosted a conference titled “Responsible Business Leadership in China and the US: Private Sector and Public Value” on Aug. 7 in Boston. Last year, the two institutions signed a strategic cooperation agreement to foster sustainable development and social innovation worldwide. At the forum, attendees agreed that neither governments nor corporations can fully fulfill their social obligations alone. Public services provided by governments have long been criticized as being costly and inefficient. For this reason, corporations need to intervene and facilitate public services using their business networks, scholars said.