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Grow Now, Regulate Later? Regulation urgently needed to support transparency and sustainable growth for Buy-Now, Pay-Later

“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) companies have seen significant growth in the past few years in the U.S. market. BNPL products are expected to account for a considerable portion (12%) of ecommerce sales ...
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this ...
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Blind Spots: Why We Fail To Do What's Right And What To Do About It

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max ...
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Governance Hurdles in an Era of Risk, Ambiguity & Uncertainty with Jim Honan

This webinar is hosted by Professor Jim Honan, faculty chair of the Harvard Kennedy School executive education program Nonprofit Management and Leadership: Strategies for Organizational Success.
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Policing Los Angeles Under a Consent Decree: The Dynamics of Change at the LAPD

The Los Angeles Police Department is completing one of the most ambitious experiments in police reform ever attempted in an American city. After a decade of policing crises that began with the beating ...
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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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David Ellwood

David T. Ellwood is the Isabelle and Scott Black Research Professor of Political Economy. He served as Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2015. He joined ...
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Coffee, Caffeine, and Health

Dam, Rob van, Frank Hu and Walter Willett. 2020. Coffee, Caffeine, and Health. The New England Journal of Medicine 383, no. 4 (July): 369-378.
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Jane Gilbert MPA 1994: The heat is on to cool down Miami-Dade County

THE WORLD IS GETTING HOTTER. And in South Florida, extreme heat is a growing problem. Miami-Dade County, home to around 2.7 million people and the most southerly metropolitan area in the continental ...
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Developing a rehabilitation program that works for incarcerated people

Marcella Alsan & Arkey M. Barnett & Peter Hull & Crystal Yang, 2024. “‘Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program," NBER Working Papers 32282, National ...
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Creating Public Value: The Core Idea of Strategic Management in Government

The core idea is a simple one: public managers should be focused on “creating public value” from the assets entrusted to them by the public. Those assets include public money, raised through the power ...
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Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis

This paper argues that historical analysis, necessarily written with hindsight, often underestimates the uncertainties of the past. We call this tendency explanation bias. This bias leads individuals ...