How much does the war in Iran cost? The war costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one ...

IN 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness an epidemic. In an advisory on the issue, he wrote, “Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and ...

Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. In The Three Trillion Dollar War, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J.

This report discusses cash bail reforms that have occurred in the United States and provides key considerations for people interested in implementing bail reforms in their jurisdiction. Based on a ...

Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots army. Unlike many ...

This Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) was conducted for the Human Leadership Lab (HLL) and explores the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence and leadership development. We mapped how ...

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...

Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616.1 (March 2008): 94-109.

Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on ...

2024, Paper: "This paper explores the impact of financial technology (fintech) on financial in clusion, focusing on the cost of accessing essential financial services as a metric for financial ...

How does a graduate school prepare leaders to address complicated public challenges? Harvard Kennedy School believes in the value of experience. The Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ Summer Fellowship ...

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the ...