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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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Emerging School Models: Scaling for Success

Innovative school models are making significant strides across the American educational landscape. New micro schools, charter schools, private school models, career and technical education programs, ...
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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Amy Edmondson, 2018, Book, "Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge ...
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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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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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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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Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What does that mean for America?

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a 6-3 vote. Almost half a century ago, the Roe v. Wade ruling was the basis for establishing a constitutional right to ...
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Study finds vertical integration in medicine is leading to higher costs and worse health outcomes

In theory, vertical integration in health care makes sense: when physicians work directly for hospitals, rather than in independent practices, there should be greater efficiencies through economies of ...
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Autocracy and patriarchy are surging worldwide—but women are pushing back

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine is unfolding into the autocrat’s most aggressive move to extend his reach. Beyond Putin’s Russia, authoritarian regimes are on the rise globally—a ...
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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 HKS and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of billionaire ruling partners could be an inflection point in America’s long slide toward rule by ...