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What Louisiana v. Callais Means for the Voting Rights Act

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act through a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The Court ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which ...
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Economic Development Q+A: Chris Gibbons, Founder of the National Center for Economic Gardening

Since 2018, the Taubman Center has been hosting the Economic Development Seminar, a yearlong, monthly seminar for students who are committed to public service and interested in state and local ...
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A European NATO?

Amid the growing transatlantic tensions created by the Trump administration, European countries once considered strong allies of America and partners in world peace are now grappling with their ...
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Bineta Diop on Leadership, Institutions, and Lasting Change

Mathias Risse in conversation with Bineta Diop as part of the Executive Education Emerging Leaders program. Bineta Diop is one of the most consequential women’s rights leaders of the past three ...
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President Xi Jinping invokes HKS Professor Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap” in summit with President Trump

At the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, President Xi Jinping invoked “The Thucydides Trap.” The concept was coined by Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and a founding dean of ...
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Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

Despite years of efforts to increase diversity in the venture capital (VC) industry, a significant gender gap remains among both investment decision-makers at venture capital firms and among ...
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Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

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 ...
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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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Trump’s threat to American democracy

A perfect storm of contemporary events has triggered deep angst about American democracy. Long-standing concern was exacerbated during the 2024 US election campaign by the extreme rhetoric used by ...
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How Do Emotions Affect Decision Making?

We review major theories of emotion and decision making, concentrating on developments within the disciplines of psychology, economics, and decision science. These theories naturally cluster into two ...
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Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans

See citation below for complete author information. Paying reparations to Black Americans has long been contentiously debated. This article addresses an unexamined pillar of this debate: the United ...
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Leading Successful Programs: Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness

Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Nonprofit Leadership and Public Policy concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for several concentrations in the ...