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The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again - Robert Putnam

October 2020, Book: "An eminent political scientist’s brilliant analysis of economic, social, and political trends over the past century demonstrating how we have gone from an individualistic “I” ...
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Akash Deep

Akash Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in finance, faculty chair of the Infrastructure in a Market Economy executive program and faculty co-chair of the International Finance ...
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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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Writing for Busy Readers

Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually ...
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Understanding the Post-Roe Landscape

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling is expected to result in ...
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The Geopolitics of Swap Lines

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s most powerful international crisis-fighting tool is its network of swap lines: dollar liquidity facilities extended to 14 foreign central banks that proved critical in ...
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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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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime ...
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Election reform in the U.S.

THE CURRENT ELECTION SEASON in the United States has highlighted many of the problems with the country’s current election system; from convoluted campaign finance practices to stringent voter ...
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Financial Aid at Harvard Kennedy School

We are committed to distributing as much financial assistance as possible to our talented students; however, our institutional resources are limited. During the 2025-2026 academic year, approximately ...
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Women's Leadership Board

Comprised of leaders from the most senior levels of business, academia, and the non-profit sector, members of the Women’s Leadership Board (WLB) serve as key supporters and ambassadors of the Women ...
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Why American Elections Are Flawed (and How to Fix Them)

The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, and concern ...