Scholars analyze the unique barriers Vice President Harris faces and who might change the conversation at a recent HKS event.

I never thought HKS would play a role in my entrepreneurship journey. However, my experience at the Center for Public ...

In this talk, Lant Pritchett will address the question “how did we go from the end of history in 1989 to where we are today?” Students will have the opportunity to ask their burning questions. This is ...

Why have efforts to strengthen quality of governance so often failed in some of the world’s most troubled states? Because they almost always ignore the human side of politics. The belief appears to be ...

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, ...

Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) have the potential to disrupt the labor market and reshape the US economy. This seminar will explore important questions, including: What ...

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 ...

With a research agenda shaped by international events, Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy Lotem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...