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Explainer: What’s happening with gerrymandering in the United States—and who will “win” the redistricting battle?

American states traditionally redraw their congressional districts every 10 years. Recently, states have begun redrawing districts mid-cycle to give a political advantage to a particular party. Texas, ...
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The Development of Police in the U.S.: Suppressing and Stoking Racial and Class Conflicts (11/5/25)

Looking broadly across time and space, and tracing histories of policing in Britain and the United States, Julian Go will join us for the fifth session of our Criminal Law as a Tool of Authoritarian ...
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Level Up with the Economic Development Executive Certificate

The Economic Development Executive Certificate at Harvard Kennedy School will help you get to the next level as a leader in your organization. This certificate is designed for leaders focused on ...
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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are ...
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The Rise of Remote Work Evidence on Productivity and Preferences From Firm and Worker Surveys

October 24, 2024, Paper: "Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of ...
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Transforming Domestic Work: Ai-jen Poo’s Vision for Collective Empowerment and Social Change

For more than 25 years, Ai-jen Poo has worked to transform the field of domestic work. As president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and executive director of Caring Across Generations, Poo’s ...
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A World with Higher Interest Rates

The past ten years have been characterized by extraordinarily low interest rates around the industrialized world. These rates have persisted in the wake of the recent economic crisis, as central banks ...
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The Ghost Budget: How U.S. war spending went rogue, wasted billions, and how to fix it

April 1, 2024, Audio: "HKS Senior Lecturer Linda Bilmes, an expert on public finance who has studied post-9/11 war costs for the past 20 years, says their staggering $5 trillion price tag was enabled ...
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Find an Executive Education Program

Whether you complete a program on our historic Cambridge campus or through the flexibility of an online offering, your immersive learning experience at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education will ...
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Faculty Publications

Furman, Jason. "He Was Good at Steering the Fed, but He Was a Genius at Ignoring Trump’s Threats." New York Times, May 14, 2026. Zhang, Minmin, Aghaei, Sina and Saghafian, Soroush. "Large Language ...
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How Europe's Elections Are Reshaping Queer Rights

The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to ...