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How AI can affect productivity in public service delivery
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Data-Smart City Solutions researcher Juncheng “Tony” Yang, find that ...
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“No one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis”
As the 29th United Nations climate change conference concluded, former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry ...
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Marcella Alsan named Humboldt Research Award winner
Marcella Alsan, the Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the Humboldt Research ...
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Unemployment insurance benefits buffered workers from negative effects of joblessness during COVID-19
Research from the Shift Project at Harvard Kennedy School shows that service sector workers who lost their jobs during the ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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Program Report: Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship - Josh Lerner
June 2021, Paper: "The Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (PIE) Program was founded as the Productivity Program, with Zvi Griliches as the inaugural program director, in 1978. The program ...
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Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
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Lessons for the 2020s - Niall Ferguson
November 26, 2021, Audio: "The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s…for the 2020s. Niall is a historian and senior fellow ...
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The Virtues and Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities - David J. Collis and Bharat N. Anand
2020, Paper: "Dynamic capabilities have been identified as a key determinant of competitive advantage. This paper explores the foundations of dynamic capabilities, and the limits to their ...
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The Future of Developing Countries and Globalization After the Pandemic - Dani Rodrik
August 22, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik talks to Rob about the importance of putting debt payments by developing countries on hold in the face of the pandemic. They also ...
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Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash
Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held view of mass ...
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Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift - Ethan Rosen and George Serafeim
2021, Paper: "The last decade has seen an expo nential increase in corporate sus tainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activi ties in their portfolio formation, valuation, and ...