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Rise to the enormous challenges before you, Ambassador Nicholas Burns urges HKS Class of 2024
Public service is written into Harvard Kennedy School’s DNA, Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China and a former HKS ...
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Harvard Kennedy School graduates recognized during May 23 Commencement celebration
Current and future leaders in public service—from across the United States and around the globe—are graduating today from the ...
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Building an analytical toolkit through the lens of economics and finance
Natalie Baker MPA 2024 came to HKS with a plan to develop her skills in economics and public policy. Her experience proved to ...
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Does Diversity Training Increase Corporate Diversity? Regulation Backlash and Regulatory Accountability - Frank Dobbin
July 2020, Paper, "Diversity training remains ubiquitous, despite decades of research suggesting that it may not work. We develop a theory of training efficacy. Training features and context can frame ...
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A Policy Matrix for Inclusive Prosperity - Stefanie Stantcheva and Dani Rodrik
April 2021, Paper: "One of the biggest challenges that countries face today is the very unequal distributions of opportunities, resources, income and wealth across people. Inclusive prosperity – ...
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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-wing Populism - Dani Rodrik
July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...
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The Dilemma of Gender Equality: How Labor Market Regulation Divides Women by Class
2019, Paper, "Women shoulder a heavier burden of family work than men in modern society, preventing them from matching male success in the external labor market. Limiting working hours is a plausible ...
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Benjamin Friedman
January 2021, Book: "Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets–among economists as well as many ordinary citizens–is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a ...
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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...
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How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now - Jon M. Jachimowicz and Ashley Whilians
October 13, 2021, Opinion: "A year and a half into the pandemic, employees’ mental “surge capacity” is likely diminished. Managers must take proactive steps to increase employee engagement, or risk ...
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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers
May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
November 2019, Paper, "A common challenge in estimating the long-term impacts of treatments (e.g., job training programs) is that the outcomes of interest (e.g., lifetime earnings) are observed with a ...