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Lawrence H. Summers and Phil Gramm on Economic Policy and Inequality in America

This hybrid seminar will be a discussion between Prof. Lawrence H. Summers and Sen. Phil Gramm on economics and inequality in America. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor, ...
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to ...
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DigHum2025 • AI and Democracy with Lawrence Lessig and Moshe Y. Vardi • Keynotes

September 8, 2025, Video: "Video Recording • Digital Humanism Conference 2025 Hosted by Claudia Zettel Editor-in-Chief of Futurezone." ...
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Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

2019, Paper, "As sustainability issues, also labelled environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, become financially material, companies, investors and regulators are designing strategies and ...
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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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Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

A healthy democracy requires a deliberative public sphere—an informal space for citizens to gain information and communicate with one another in order to detect problems, bring them to public view, ...
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Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation - Josh Lerner & Ramana Nanda

2020, Paper, "Although late-stage venture capital (VC) activity did not change dramatically in the first two months after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S., early-stage VC activity declined by 38 ...
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International Business History and the strategy of multinational enterprises: How History Matters - Geoffrey Jones

December 2020, Book Chapter: "This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business (IB) over time as well as the predominant strategies used by multinational enterprises (MNEs) ...
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Understanding the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan

For centuries, mainland China and the island of Taiwan have had an interconnected relationship that has been both close and contentious at times. Rana Mitter, an expert on historical and contemporary ...
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Randall Kekoa Akee: Empowering public policy students to advance economic development and mobility in their home communities

Randall Kekoa Akee is the newly appointed Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development and the new faculty director of the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at ...
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Find an Executive Education Program

Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is the premier global resource for those who aim to advance public policy, seek professional growth, and strive for real-world impact. When you ...
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For the Sake of Argument

Civil discourse isn’t just about polite conversation. It’s a vital ingredient to better public policy and public leadership. And vital to the Kennedy School’s focus on public engagement. With a number ...