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With the move to freeze foreign aid, the international development sector stands at a crossroads, HKS experts say
The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...
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DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues
Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance ...
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Spring 2025 Institute of Politics Fellows exchange views on U.S. and world news events
From the conflict in Ukraine to major shifts in U.S. campaign finance and media, experts share their insights on today’s ...
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Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. is forced to confront its plutocracy problem?
Professors Archon Fung of Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of ...
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Optimism, pessimism, and uncertainty: How U.S.-China relations may evolve during the second Trump administration
Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Rana Mitter and Anthony Saich share their insights on how they think U.S.-China ...
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Deep Dive: Japan's Economy- The Recovery Trajectory - Paul Sheard
July 1, 2021, Video: "Paul Sheard: Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Naoyuki Yoshino: Professor Emeritus (Economics) of Keio University, Tokyo Jesper Koll: Expert Director, Monex Group and the ...
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The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China - Meg Rithmire
2021, Paper: "A large literature on state-business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to ...
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Technology adoption and the middle-income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia - Rabah Arezki
April 5, 2021, Paper: "This paper documents the existence of a “middle-income trap” for the Middle East and North Africa region and contrasts the evidence with that of the East Asia and Pacific region ...
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Some Costs & Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis - Cass Sunstein
2021, Paper; "The American administrative state has become a cost-benefit state, at least in the sense that prevailing executive orders require agencies to proceed only if the benefits justify the ...
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Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Tradeoffs in Dual-Purpose Companies - Julie Battilana
October 30, 2020, Paper: "A growing number of companies choose to pursue financial and social goals simultaneously. These dual-purpose companies face inherent tradeoffs as they are caught between the ...
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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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The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance - Lucian Bebchuk
March 2, 2020, Paper: "Corporate purpose is now the focus of a fundamental and heated debate, with rapidly growing support for the proposition that corporations should move from shareholder value ...