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Reimagining the Economy

Prevailing policy mindsets have not only failed to produce robust economic growth, but have also resulted in increased inequality and economic insecurity. Societies are hostage to financial crises, ...
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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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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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Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes

The Executive Session on Community Corrections released a new paper, entitled Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes. The authors find that probation has often not ...
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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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Understanding Texas’ energy grid failure

Record cold temperatures plunged Texas into a power crisis last week, with millions in the state losing power. The failure demonstrates the vulnerability of power grids to shifting weather patterns ...
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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 ...
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The history of the Electoral College and our national conversation about race

As the United States moves toward the 2020 presidential election, the country’s democratic institutions are becoming prominent once again in the national conversation. How we vote, and how fair and ...
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Lessons from a year of war in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one year ago, shocked the world. The brazen attack was the beginning of the largest land war in Europe since World War II and has led to massive loss of life, enormous ...
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Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern appointed to two Harvard Kennedy School fellowships

Jacinda Ardern, who earned international acclaim for her leadership as New Zealand’s prime minister, has been appointed to dual fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School—as 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public ...
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The Reimagining the Economy project aims to help build an economy at once productive and inclusive

The new HKS initiative, housed at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, will look at the people and places globalization left behind and ask big questions about how they can reconnect to a more ...
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Does reducing stigma increase participation in benefit programs? Research suggests so.

Elizabeth Linos, the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and faculty director of The People Lab, and Jessica Lasky-Fink, a PhD student at the University of California, ...