www.hks.harvard.edu3d
How AI can affect productivity in public service delivery
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Data-Smart City Solutions researcher Juncheng “Tony” Yang, find that ...
www.hks.harvard.edu4d
“No one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis”
As the 29th United Nations climate change conference concluded, former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry ...
www.hks.harvard.edu4d
Marcella Alsan named Humboldt Research Award winner
Marcella Alsan, the Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the Humboldt Research ...
www.hks.harvard.edu4d
Unemployment insurance benefits buffered workers from negative effects of joblessness during COVID-19
Research from the Shift Project at Harvard Kennedy School shows that service sector workers who lost their jobs during the ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Program Report: Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship - Josh Lerner
June 2021, Paper: "The Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (PIE) Program was founded as the Productivity Program, with Zvi Griliches as the inaugural program director, in 1978. The program ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Lessons for the 2020s - Niall Ferguson
November 26, 2021, Audio: "The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s…for the 2020s. Niall is a historian and senior fellow ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
The Virtues and Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities - David J. Collis and Bharat N. Anand
2020, Paper: "Dynamic capabilities have been identified as a key determinant of competitive advantage. This paper explores the foundations of dynamic capabilities, and the limits to their ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
The Future of Developing Countries and Globalization After the Pandemic - Dani Rodrik
August 22, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik talks to Rob about the importance of putting debt payments by developing countries on hold in the face of the pandemic. They also ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Socialism or Capitalism? Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate - Arthur Brooks
April 15, 2021, Video: "Half of Americans under forty say they would “prefer living in a socialist country.” A self-described “Democratic socialist” surged to an early lead in the 2020 Democratic ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Trade Surplus or Deficit? Neither Matters for Changes in Manufacturing Employment Shares - Robert Lawrence
September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller ...
www.hks.harvard.edu5d
Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash
Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held view of mass ...