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For California’s fast-food workers, a major minimum wage increase brings an immediate boon

When California raised the minimum wage for workers at the largest fast-food chains to $20 in April, some firms, franchisors, and franchisees claimed it could result in higher prices, fewer workers, ...
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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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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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International & Global Affairs Concentration

The International and Global Affairs (IGA) concentration trains the next generation of policymakers and leaders like you to tackle the complex issues of a globalizing world. As an IGA concentrator, ...
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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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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers

May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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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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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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Are we headed for a constitutional crisis? Kennedy School scholars on the Trump administration and the rule of law

Experts see an unprecedented challenge to the rule of law and to constitutional norms and ponder how the courts and other institutions will respond. The Trump administration’s first month included a ...
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Making a movement: The history and future of human rights

“THE CREATION OF SUCH A DOCUMENT— its mere existence—must count among the greatest achievements in human history.” That is how Mathias Risse, the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global ...
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Joseph Nye, Harvard professor, developer of “soft power” theory, and an architect of modern international relations, dies at 88

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, and ...
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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 ...