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Anti-Corruption and Good Governance: Drivers of Peace, Security and Development
The session will discuss the role of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in supporting the implementation of the UN ...
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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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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates - Matthew Stephenson
September 2020, Paper: "Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that currently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...