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Pathways in Public Service: How Sophie Faaborg-Andersen MPP 2023’s experience at HKS prepared her for a career at the Department of Defense

Every student’s path to Harvard Kennedy School is unique. What our alumni go on to do after graduating is equally varied. We asked several of our alumni to tell us about their experiences before, ...
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Celebrating the legacy of activist Callie House and addressing arguments against economic reparations for Black Americans

Experts on slavery reparations for Black Americans discussed the legacy of civil rights activist Callie House, who has been called the foremother of the reparations movement, tying her story to the ...
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A Darkening Horizon: Nuclear Dangers Around the World with Matthew Bunn

Changing geopolitics and evolving technologies are raising the danger that nuclear weapons might actually be detonated in conflict for the first time since 1945. In this webinar, Matthew Bunn, ...
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Looking for evidence-based solutions to advance gender equity? There’s a GAP for that

Behavioral economics consultant Raafi Alidina MPP 2016 was recently working with a client looking to increase the percentage of women in leadership at their company. They were open to a variety of ...
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The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy

For a century, the geopolitics of energy has been synonymous with the geopolitics of oil and gas. However, geopolitics and the global energy economy are both changing. The international order ...
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The Great Tech Rivalry: China vs the U.S.

To mark the arrival of the 21st century, in 1999 the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine offered an Olympian preview of the decades ahead. The Academy foresaw a world in which ...
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Master’s Program Admissions

Financial Aid Application Deadline: Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12 p.m. (noon) ET ...
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Total Economic Valuation of the National Park Service Lands and Programs: Results of a Survey of the American Public

This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive estimate of the total economic value of the National Parks Service. The estimate covers administered lands, waters, and historic sites as well as NPS ...
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three ...
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People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a ...
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Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur

In this article, we focus on recent advancements in Generative AI, and especially in Large Language Models (LLMs). We first present a framework that allows understanding the core characteristics of ...
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Stand Out from the Millions: Market Congestion and Information Friction on Global E-Commerce Platforms

We investigate how market congestion and information friction affect firm dynamics and market efficiency in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress ...