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On the Rebound: Prospects for a US-UK Free Trade Agreement

This paper, the third in a series exploring the impact of Brexit on British businesses, examines the prospects for, and potential impact of, a free trade agreement between the US and the UK. The ...
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She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband

“Helen Boyd’s husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her ...
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Akash Deep

Akash Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in finance, faculty chair of the Infrastructure in a Market Economy executive program and faculty co-chair of the International Finance ...
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Green Industrial Policy: Accelerating Structural Change towards Wealthy Green Economies

There are two major reasons for governments and societies to accelerate structural change in their economies and proactively shape the direction of the change. First, there is the challenge of ...
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The State and Fate of Community Banking

This working paper focuses on the plight of community banks in the United States. It begins by examining different definitions of what constitutes a community bank, and goes on to review what makes ...
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Rewriting Happiness: Finding more enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning in life

What does happiness mean? How can we be happy? Earlier this month, Oprah Winfrey and Arthur Brooks gathered at Harvard Business School to discuss these exact questions. Winfrey initially found Brooks’ ...
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Mark Shepard

Mark Shepard is an associate professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research studies health care ...
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Why is support for populism rising in the West?

WHAT IS DRIVING VOTER SENTIMENT THIS ELECTION YEAR? Is it dissatisfaction with personal economic circumstances? Or is it something deeper than that, relating to a more profound discomfort with the ...
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Central Bank Independence Revisited: After the financial crisis, what should a model central bank look like?

After the financial crisis, countries around the world significantly expanded the objectives and powers of central banks. As central banks have acquired more powers, the trade-off between independence ...
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Jie Bai: What drives the car market in China?

THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES have witnessed significant liberalization among developing economies to foreign trade and investment, as advocated by international organizations. Nevertheless, for strategic ...
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U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence

2024, Book Chapter: "It has become difficult to imagine how Washington and Beijing might turn their relationship, which is so crucial to the future of world order, toward calmer waters. If there is to ...
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David Gergen Summer Fellowship Program

You can support the Gergen Summer Fellowship Program by giving to the David R. Gergen Leadership Experiential Learning Endowment Fund. The David Gergen Summer Fellowship Program honors David Gergen, ...