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Governance Hurdles in an Era of Risk, Ambiguity & Uncertainty with Jim Honan

This webinar is hosted by Professor Jim Honan, faculty chair of the Harvard Kennedy School executive education program Nonprofit Management and Leadership: Strategies for Organizational Success.
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The Economic Cost of Long COVID: An Update - David Cutler

2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...
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Large Dams in India

Large Dams in India. Rohini Pande, January 2007, Paper. “At independence, in 1947, there were fewer than 300 large dams in India. By the year 2000 the number had grown to over 4000, more than half of ...
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Advocacy & Social Movements

We develop the concept of the satellite political movement (SPM), a form of movement-party interaction that emerges in support of a particular political leader.
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Government Performance Lab announces new State Housing Production Accelerator to help local communities meet state housing production goals

Cambridge, Mass. — The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) announced the launch of a new program to build durable state capacity to help local governments meet ambitious housing ...
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Estimating spillovers from publicly funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy - Kyle Myers

2021, Paper: "In this paper, we quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to ...
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U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence

2024, Book Chapter: "It has become difficult to imagine how Washington and Beijing might turn their relationship, which is so crucial to the future of world order, toward calmer waters. If there is to ...
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“Historical levels of mobilization”: Harvard professors discuss American Democracy

Is the United States sliding into authoritarianism? Or are the bulwarks of democracy growing stronger? In their final episode of their webinar series “The Breakdown” this year, Harvard Professors ...
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Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

We embrace a dual mission: to educate students and the next generation of leaders from around the world in human rights policy and practice; and to convene and provide policy-relevant knowledge to ...
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Human rights experts and former political prisoners share a somber view of Iran today

According to Iranian experts, former activists, and prisoners, key issues—gender-based oppression, mass killings, and prison abuses—paint a somber picture of the human rights crisis unfolding today in ...
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How the Trump administration is shaping world trade

Since taking office, President Trump has issued tariff increases on imports to over 90 countries. While some of these increases have never materialized, some have resulted in new trade agreements.
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Akash Deep

Akash Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in finance, faculty chair of the Infrastructure in a Market Economy executive program and faculty co-chair of the International Finance ...