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 ...
Bureaucracy is ubiquitous—and not exactly beloved. So why do we have bureaucracy? And how can we improve it so that governments and organizations can be more responsive to the people they serve rather ...
Cambridge, Mass. – Jake Sullivan, who until January 20, 2025 served as the 28th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, will join Harvard Kennedy School April 1 as the inaugural ...
Female enterprises are more likely to create social impact through the businesses they create and operate. Whether they generate jobs through their business for other women, invest their income in the ...
Event Description: In what is shaping up to be a close vote, the UN Human Rights Council will soon decide whether to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and ...
President Trump started his second term with a flurry of executive orders, including imposing immediate trade tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. The tariffs are aimed at addressing “the ...
In a major policy speech at Harvard Kennedy School, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol traced the global arc of freedom from the American Revolution to South Korea’s current campaign to protect ...
A “center of resilience” in Ukraine during the winter providing Wi-Fi to citizens. Prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine was already advancing a vision of digital governance designed to ...
The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the appointment of Jessica Stern as Senior Fellow. She will be the first senior fellow focused on LGBTQI+ human ...
How do people change their behavior after being made aware of bias? This question is central to efforts aimed at reducing discrimination in education, workplaces, and other settings. A recent paper ...
Two men checking a train timetable during the COVID-19 pandemic. How does globalization influence the spread of infectious diseases, and what insights can we draw from historical pandemics to inform ...
This year's cohort of PhD candidates on the academic job market bring cutting-edge insights to the field of international development research. Their work explores how social networks, governance ...