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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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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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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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GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being

The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in recent years, have spurred ...
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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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Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of The Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings

November 2019, Paper, "Despite the rising use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in financial markets, there is substantial disagreement across rating agencies regarding what ...
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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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Evolving technology in the U.S. service sector isn’t benefiting older workers

As technological change continues to upend the service industry, scholars with the Shift Project, a joint research initiative between Harvard Kennedy School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy ...
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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 ...
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Soft Power and the Public Diplomacy Revisited

Soft power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or payment. A country’s soft power rests on its resources of culture, ...
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Fostering Accountability Among Young Adults

Young adults are capable of causing both relatively trivial and very serious harm. They are also, as we continue to learn, uncommonly capable of change. Our challenge, then, is to identify strategies ...
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Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy

The Harvard PhD in Health Policy, awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is a collaborative program among six Harvard University faculties: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business ...