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Why are candidates’ race and gender still issues in presidential politics?
Scholars analyze the unique barriers Vice President Harris faces and who might change the conversation at a recent HKS event.
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Empowering Voters: How VoteSee Bridges the Information Gap in Democracy
I never thought HKS would play a role in my entrepreneurship journey. However, my experience at the Center for Public ...
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Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make their Networks more Resilient. Here's How - Willy Shih
September-October 2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms everywhere. Coupled with a rise in economic nationalism, ...
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This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for ...
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Lotem Bassan-Nygate: Understanding the benefits and costs of international naming and shaming
With a research agenda shaped by international events, Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy Lotem ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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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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Borders of Prosperity: Immigration's Impact on the U.S. Economy
November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-skilled versus ...
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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 ...
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What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation - Gary Pisano
September/October 2021, Paper: "On November 30, 2020, Moderna Therapeutics announced that Phase III clinical trials for its messenger RNA vaccine demonstrated 95% protective efficacy against the ...
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Niall Ferguson: Why Civilizations Rise & Fall / Will Decentralized Finance Change the World... Again - Niall Ferguson
August 18, 2021, Video: "Niall Ferguson is a renowned historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and prolific author of more than a dozen best-selling works on economics, culture, and ...
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3 Things You Should Know About the Unintended Consequences of Diversity Initiatives
Why do organizational policies and procedures fail to improve diversity outcomes? The purpose of diversity initiatives is to help groups that face disadvantages in society achieve better outcomes in ...