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AI can make governing better instead of worse. Yes, you heard that right.
Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan explain the guidelines, guardrails, and principles that ...
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Why the Panama Canal is on President Trump's agenda
Economic development scholar Ricardo Hausmann explains the history of the canal, Panama’s investment and development of the ...
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Online Information Session Dates
The Public Leadership Credential team offers exclusive one-hour information sessions and 30-minute “Ask Me Anything” sessions. These sessions are an opportunity to learn more about the PLC and ask any ...
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Dan Levy on Data-Driven Policy Making, Machine Learning, and the Future of Higher Education
March 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Leadership Credential, ...
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Jesse Fried on Inequality, Stock Buybacks, and Misplaced Fears about Short-Termism in Corporate Governance
GrowthPolicy: What should we do about economic inequality? Jesse Fried: At the risk of speaking heresy, perhaps the answer is “nothing.” Clearly, America has many serious domestic problems, problems ...
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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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Estimating spillovers from publicly funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy - Kyle Myers
2021, Paper: "In this paper, we quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to ...
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Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates - Matthew Stephenson
September 2020, Paper: "Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that currently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their ...
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Making Discrimination and Harassment Complaint Systems Better
2020, Book Chapter, "For decades, employers have used formal grievance procedures to handle both discrimination and harassment complaints. The system seems straightforward: If an employee believes ...
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Accounting for Climate Change - Robert Kaplan
November / December 2021, Opinion: "Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
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Some Costs & Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis - Cass Sunstein
2021, Paper; "The American administrative state has become a cost-benefit state, at least in the sense that prevailing executive orders require agencies to proceed only if the benefits justify the ...
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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 ...