Dear Harvard Kennedy School Faculty, Students, Staff, and Fellows, It is with deep sadness that I write to let you know that David Gergen has passed away after a long illness. David was a fixture of ...
August 21, 2025, Opinion: "One should be just as cautious about predicting the imminent burst of an AI bubble as skeptical of the exaggerated hype currently surrounding artificial intelligence. There ...
The 2024 U.K. general election proved a watershed contest, with a stunning rejection of the Conservative government after 14 years in power. The Conservative’s share of the vote (24%) was its worst ...
Q: What impact have public sector fellowship programs—like the PMF—had on pathways into government service? Our study tracks the career trajectories of over 2,000 fellows and finalists from four ...
Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the House of Representatives, visited Harvard Kennedy School to speak in class with Ambassador Katherine Tai, Institute of Politics (IOP) fall 2025 fellow and former ...
May 2020, Paper, "We build a new, publicly available economic tracker that measures economic activity at a highfrequency, granular level. Using anonymized data from several large businesses – credit ...
January 28, 2025, Paper: "We estimate the value employees place on remote work using revealed preferences in a high-stakes, real-world context, focusing on U.S. tech workers. On average, employees are ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the final collapse of the Bretton Woods Rate Regime. This study group will examine the March 1973 decision to move to floating exchange rates for the major ...
Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the ...
Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served at the Council of Economic Advisers ...
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth ...
For more information, go to Professor Jie Bai's full website. I am an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. My research focuses on firms and markets in developing countries ...