How does armed conflict affect the health of women and children, and what are the long-term public health consequences in conflict zones? Armed conflict imposes a profound and multifaceted burden on ...

What is the benefit of earning an Executive Certificate? Your Harvard Kennedy School Executive Certificate is a significant enhancement to your résumé that recognizes your successful completion of ...

High-performing individuals are often rewarded with promotions to leadership positions. However, excelling as an individual contributor calls for a different skill set than excelling as a manager.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Principles of Economics, 7th Edition. Gregory Mankiw, 2014, Book. "With its clear and engaging writing style, Principles of Economics, Seventh Edition, continues to be one of the most popular books on ...

THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES have witnessed significant liberalization among developing economies to foreign trade and investment, as advocated by international organizations. Nevertheless, for strategic ...

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, ...

We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 ...

Economic globalization impacts the environment and sustainable development in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels. The purpose of this paper is (a) to identify the key links ...

Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those without, often because of undesirable side effects. This is the ...