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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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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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“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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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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Tarun Khanna on the jobs of the future, how entrepreneurs can build trust, and institutional voids
March 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard ...
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Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective - Grace Bailor
October 1, 2020, Paper: "From the technical analyses of wide ranges of scholars to the public discourse backlashes against globalization, there is a huge volume of work historicizing, quantifying, and ...
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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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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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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
November 2019, Paper, "A common challenge in estimating the long-term impacts of treatments (e.g., job training programs) is that the outcomes of interest (e.g., lifetime earnings) are observed with a ...
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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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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 ...