New research, released as part of a project of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ) at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, reveals that the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Economists, industry leaders, and policymakers explored the current debates over industrial policy—the strategies a government takes to stimulate economic growth through tools like subsidies, tax ...
The U.S. government shutdown is in its third week as funding bills have failed to garner the necessary votes from both Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government. At the center of this ...
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 ...
The war in Israel and Gaza has already taken a huge human toll. On Friday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, leading experts from Harvard and beyond discussed the intractably complicated questions ...
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 ...
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 ...
The global debate on educational governance is a tug-of-war between centralized and decentralized systems. Centralization advocates emphasize uniformity, pointing to Japan and Singapore as examples ...
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 ...
For the estimated 30 million uninsured Americans, navigating insurance enrollment can be confusing, cumbersome, and intimidating. The hassles are so great that some people have avoided enrollment ...