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Looking for evidence-based solutions to advance gender equity? There’s a GAP for that

Behavioral economics consultant Raafi Alidina MPP 2016 was recently working with a client looking to increase the percentage of women in leadership at their company. They were open to a variety of ...
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Research Fellows

David Blumenthal David Blumenthal MD, MPP is Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of ...
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Overcoming the Great Recession: Lessons from China

For the past decade, Liu He has been an influential economist and policy advisor in Beijing. An alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA ’95), Liu was a trusted advisor to President Hu Jintao during ...
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When Peace Hurts Profits in Angola’s Diamond Industry: CID Faculty Research Insights

Can the transition from civil war to peace in resource-rich countries like Angola actually harm private sector performance and investor confidence? This paper, written by CID Faculty Affiliate Eliana ...
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Earned Wage Access: An Innovation in Financial Inclusion?

Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these ...
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K-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy

See citation below for complete author information. Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data. Suppose the ...
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Multi-Year Academic Calendar

Find important dates and events at Harvard Kennedy School from 2025 to 2030.
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Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency

In Infotopia, citizens enjoy a wide range of information about the organizations upon which they rely for the satisfaction of their vital interests. The provision of that information is governed by ...
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Urban and Rural Leadership Trek

Treks are student-led, Taubman Center supported trips to meet state and local leaders in cities and towns in the country’s interior and in more rural areas. Below are examples of past Treks, including ...
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The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

October 2022, Paper: "We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on ...
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Explainer: Why the “casual invocation” of the Insurrection Act by President Trump is so unusual

A little-used federal law is getting quite a bit of attention in the Trump administration. The Insurrection Act, first enacted in 1807, allows the president to deploy the United States military and ...
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Carr-Ryan Fellow Laura Murphy on Standing Up to Chinese Pressure in Academia

In a piece for The Economist, Laura Murphy, currently a Carr-Ryan Center Fellow, reflects on how she resisted pressure from the Chinese state when her university attempted to halt her research into ...