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For California’s fast-food workers, a major minimum wage increase brings an immediate boon

When California raised the minimum wage for workers at the largest fast-food chains to $20 in April, some firms, franchisors, and franchisees claimed it could result in higher prices, fewer workers, ...
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Find an Executive Education Program

Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is the premier global resource for those who aim to advance public policy, seek professional growth, and strive for real-world impact. When you ...
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Reimagining the Economy

Prevailing policy mindsets have not only failed to produce robust economic growth, but have also resulted in increased inequality and economic insecurity. Societies are hostage to financial crises, ...
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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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GDP as a Measure of Economic Well-Being

The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in recent years, have spurred ...
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DigHum2025 • AI and Democracy with Lawrence Lessig and Moshe Y. Vardi • Keynotes

September 8, 2025, Video: "Video Recording • Digital Humanism Conference 2025 Hosted by Claudia Zettel Editor-in-Chief of Futurezone." ...
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Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

2019, Paper, "As sustainability issues, also labelled environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, become financially material, companies, investors and regulators are designing strategies and ...
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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce ...
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Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. is forced to confront its plutocracy problem?

Professors Archon Fung of HKS and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of billionaire ruling partners could be an inflection point in America’s long slide toward rule by ...
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Are we headed for a constitutional crisis? Kennedy School scholars on the Trump administration and the rule of law

Experts see an unprecedented challenge to the rule of law and to constitutional norms and ponder how the courts and other institutions will respond. The Trump administration’s first month included a ...
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Understanding Texas’ energy grid failure

Record cold temperatures plunged Texas into a power crisis last week, with millions in the state losing power. The failure demonstrates the vulnerability of power grids to shifting weather patterns ...
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David Gergen, a towering figure in U.S. politics and founder of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, has died

David Gergen, a trusted adviser to four U.S. presidents who went on to play a pivotal role in shaping leadership education at Harvard Kennedy School, has died at the age of 83. Gergen was a dedicated ...