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May 23, 2013
Press release: M-RCBG announces John T. Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize winners.
May 23, 2013
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed at CNN.com, Building roads in Africa? Send in the troops.
May 17, 2013
Blog post: Benjamin Heineman's blog post at Harvard Business Review, For Dimon and Board Leaders: Function Matters, Not Form.
May 15, 2013
Press Release: HEEP announces student paper prize award winners.
May 10, 2013
Interview: Listen to Joseph Aldy's interview at Living on Earth, Saving Money with Environmental Regulation.
May 10, 2013
Op-ed: Benjamin Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, The Cost of Saving Lives in Bangladesh.
May 6, 2013
Interview: Jane Nelson interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered, Labor Watchdog Groups Limited in Their Power to Enforce Laws.
May 5, 2013
Research: Christopher Avery's research cited in The Washington Post, Low-income students can get into selective colleges.
May 5, 2013
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, The buck does not stop with Reinhart and Rogoff.
May 3, 2013
Op-ed: Scott Moore's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Calming the West's water wars.
May 2, 2013
Feature: Lawrence Summers featured in The New York Times Magazine, Boom, Bust or What?
April 29, 2013
Interview: Herman "Dutch" Leonard on the marathon bombing, on NECN and in The Harvard Crimson.
April 26, 2013
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's blog post at the Harvard Business Review, Name the trade rep, Mr. President.
April 17, 2013
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed at WBUR.org, Giving Margaret Thatcher the feminist cred she deserves--and would have hated.
April 14, 2013
Op-ed: Robert Lawrence's op-ed in The Miami Herald, As other nations prosper, so will United States.
April 12, 2013
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, The end of the line.
April 11, 2013
Op-ed: Frank Weil's op-ed in the Huffington Post, A metaphoric solution for too much of everything.
April 10, 2013
30th anniversary coverage: Harvard Gazette coverage of M-RCBG's 30th anniversary forum, Making this economy work.
April 8, 2013
30th anniversary coverage: M-RCBG celebrated its 30th anniversary with a forum titled "Is America Working? What Business and Government Can Do." Stream it here, read Crimson coverage or view additional photos.
April 5, 2013
Research: Linda Bilmes' research covered in the Harvard Crimson, Report Calculates High Cost of Iraq-Afghanistan War.
April 3, 2013
Interview: Lawrence Summers featured on the Harvard Kennedy School's PolicyCast, Lawrence Summers on the Interplay between Government and Business.
April 1, 2013
Interview: John Ruggie featured in Harvard Gazette, Where corporations, public meet.
March 28, 2013
Featured: New study by Linda Bilmes featured in the Washington Post, Iraq, Afghan wars will cost to $4 trillion to $6 trillion, Harvard study says.
March 26, 2013
Op-Ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, Why We Can All Stop Worrying About Offshoring and Outsourcing.
March 25, 2013
Feature: M-RCBG celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Interview: Robert Lawrence interviewed in The Washington Post, A really health U.S. economy...will have a bigger trade deficit.
March 22, 2013
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, On DOMA, Real-World Arguments Could Sway the Supreme Court.
March 18, 2013
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed at Reuters, Europe's hair-trigger economy.
March 7, 2013
Op-ed: Robert Stavins' op-ed in Vox, The sordid history of Congressional acceptance and rejection of cap-and-trade: Implications for climate policy.
March 4, 2013
Interview: John Ruggie's NPR interview on his new book, "Just Business", Ruggie's Rules.
Blog entry: Ben Heineman's blog entry at the Harvard Business Review, From BP to Boeing, Supplier Safety is the CEO's problem.
March 1, 2013
Op-ed: Robert Stavins' op-ed at PBSNewsHour, Is Obama's Climate Change Policy Doomed to Fail? Maybe not.
February 22, 2013
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The Boston Globe, Hurling itself off successive cliffs, Congress shows dysfunction
February 21, 2013
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, How Obama Can Win a European Free-Trade Deal
February 20, 2013
Q&A: Linda Bilmes' Q&A in the Harvard Gazette, How to sidestep sequestration
February 11, 2013
Op-ed: Lawrence Summer's op-ed at Reuters, The growth challenge
February 11, 2013
News coverage: M-RCBG's business and government seminar on social impact bonds, Investments that encourage innovation
January 30, 2013
News coverage: M-RCBG's annual Davos Debrief, Davos, more optimistic and less glamorous; struggling with a 2.0 world
January 30, 2013
News coverage: The Harvard Gazette coverage of the M-RCBG co-sponsored Defeating Malaria Global Forum: Hitting Malaria from All Sides
January 25, 2013
Q&A: The Second Term: Joseph Aldy on Environmental Policy
January 24, 2013
Op-eds: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The Financial Times, No US peace dividend after Afghanistan
January 24, 2013
Op-eds: Ben Heineman's recent op-eds: What Obama Forgot (The Atlantic); The JPMorgan "Whale" Report and the Ghosts of the Financial Crisis (Harvard Business Review); and General Counsel are One Conscience of the Company (Corporate Counsel)
January 24, 2013
Blog posting: Lawrence Summers' blog posting at the World Economic Forum, Beware the economics of beggar-thy-neighbour
January 23, 2013
Op-ed: SSP Fellow Scott Moore's op-ed in The South China Morning Post, The people are Beijing's ally in fight for cleaner air
January 22, 2013
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed at Reuters, America has multiple deficits
January 18, 2013
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in Project Syndicate, Will Europe's Fiscal Compact Work?
January 16, 2013
Q&A: The Second Term: Robert Stavins on Energy and Environmental Policy
January 10, 2013
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Harvard Business Review, Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?
January 10, 2013
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in China Daily, Good Foundation to Build On.
December 20, 2012
Article: Harvard Project conducts special event at COP-18 with Qatar Government.
December 19, 2012
Q&A: Q&A with Robert Stavins in the Harvard Gazette on Confronting Climate Change.
December 13, 2012
Article: Harvard Project conducts highly successful side-event at COP-18.
December 11, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, Egypt's Economic Winter.
December 12, 2012
Op-ed: Larry Summer's op-ed in The Washington Post, A tax reform to cut complexity, increase fairness.
December 11, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, High-Risk, High-Reward: Will Obama Seek a Free-Trade Pact With Europe?
December 11, 2012
Blog post: Robert Stowe's blog post, COP 18 and the Future of International Climate Policy.
December 10, 2012
Research: Brigitte Madrian featured in HKS' IMPACT, The Power of Prompts.
December 10, 2012
News: Carmen Reinhart featured in HKS' IMPACT, on the global financial crisis.
December 9, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed at Politico, Time to reform complex tax code.
December 6, 2012
News: Robert Stavins at DOHA 2012, Growing Qatar planning its long-term water supply.
December 6, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Harvard Business Review, At Olympus and Goldman Sachs, Two Very Different Whistleblowers.
November 30, 2012
Press release: CSRI wins documentary video award for its corporate-community dialog video series. Click to view the press release and the videos.
November 30, 2012
Recognition: Calestous Juma named one of 2012's 100 most influential Africans by New African Magazine.
November 28, 2012
Press release: Mexican President Felipe Calderon to Join HKS Faculty as an M-RCBG affiliate.
November 27, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed at BBC News, How Tribalism Stunts African Democracy.
November 26, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed at WBUR.org, Three Ways to Avoid Future Fiscal Cliffs.
November 5, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed at Reuters, The 'Obama debt' fallacy.
November 5, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Harvard Business Review, Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?
October 25, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in Forbes, Poor Infrastructure is Africa's Soft Underbelly.
October 15, 2012
Op-ed: Carmen Reinhart's op-ed at Bloomberg.com, Sorry, U.S. Recoveries Really Aren't Different.
October 14, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Washington Post, A dangerous economic tug of war.
October 11, 2012
News coverage: HKS coverage of a recent RPP seminar, The crisis of confidence in U.S. regulation.
October 6, 2012
News coverage: Harvard Gazette coverage of an SSP-sponsored seminar, A close eye on population growth.
October 3, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in Forbes, Why We Need Innovation to Prepare for the Global Aging Society.
October 2, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers on WBUR.org, Advice to the Next President: Taxes and Spending.
September 20, 2012
News coverage: Robert Stavins' research covered in the Harvard Gazette, Spoiled opportunity.
September 19, 2012
Op-ed: Jeff Frankel's op-ed at Project Syndicate, Mitt Romney Rejects His Natural Voters.
September 19, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed at WBUR.org, The Truth Behind the Ryan Budget.
September 17, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in Reuters, Why the UK must reverse its economic course.
September 14, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Harvard Business Review, A Cautionary Tale for Regulated Industries.
September 14, 2012
News coverage: Lawrence Summers mentioned in the Boston Globe, Obama and Romney economic advisers spar on taxes, US aid.
September 11, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed at WBUR.org, Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?
September 9, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The New York Times, Don't Perpetuate a 'Culture of Endless Money'.
September 6, 2012
Op-ed: Jeff Frankel's op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor, Obamacare champions personal responsibility. The states that hate it don't.
September 6, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed at WBUR.org, God, The Democrats and Bill Clinton.
August 23, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed at Freshfruitportal.com, Innovation key to unlocking Africa's horticultural potential.
September 4, 2012
Issues brief: CSRI Faculty Chair John Ruggie has authored an issues brief on the case Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, which will be reheard before the US Supreme Court on October 1, 2012.
September 4, 2012
Press release: The Ecological Society of America awards the 2012 Sustainability Science Award to SSP's William Clark and Nancy Dickson. Read the press releases here and here.
August 23, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed at Freshfruitportal.com, Innovation key to unlocking Africa's horticultural potential.
August 19, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summer's op-ed in the Financial Times, America's state will expand whoever wins.
August 15, 2012
Interview: Roger Porter interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline, Romney and Ryan complement each other.
August 14, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in Daily Nation, Africa must wake up to the reality that hunger is now a national security issue.
August 8, 2012
Op-ed: Ashley Brown's op-ed in the Indian Express, Coming out of the dark.
August 7, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in The Business Times, Fiscal follies of first world governments.
July 30, 2012
Interview: Lawrence Summers interviewed on American Public Media's Marketplace, Larry Summers on income inequality.
July 23, 2012
Research: Richard Light's research highlighted, Helping Schools Shed Light on Better Learning Practices.
July 22, 2012
Op-ed: Thomas Healey's op-ed on NJ.com, Catholic Academy of Sussex County reinvents school district.
July 18, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed on WBUR, Why Romney Will Pick Portman.
July 16, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summer's op-ed in Reuters, Focus on equality of opportunity, not outcomes.
July 15, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The Boston Globe, Afghanistan is missing from the campaign.
July 11, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Atlantic, Only Government Intervention Can Stop Corrupt Capitalism.
July 11, 2012
Research: The CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School has released two videos on company-community dialogue processes, now available on BASESwiki.
July 9, 2012
Video: The Future of X: Larry Summers on Higher Education (The Atlantic).
July 5, 2012
Research: Kira Matus, SSP visiting scholar, contributes to recently released findings on sustainability certification.
July 1, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The Washington Post, Where the New Deal meets Reaganomics.
June 27, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in The Star (Nairobi), Why Kenya Has to Adopt Biotechnology in Farming.
June 27, 2012
Research: Multi-sector expert panel releases important, new findings on sustainability certification, Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limitations of Certification. Kira Matus, research associate in M-RCBG's Sustainability Science Program, is a member of the steering committee and authored the overview paper.
June 21, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in The Business Times, Eurobonds to end eurozone crisis?
June 20, 2012
Op-ed: Joseph Aldy's op-ed at Politico, Financial regulation sans analysis
June 19, 2012
Op-ed: John Ruggie's op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor, Aung San Suu Kyi signals change in Burma, but investors should proceed with caution
June 18, 2012
Interview: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in Reuters, Europe must be persuaded to make a permanent fix
June 11, 2012
Interview: Lawrence Summers interviewed by NPR, Will Economy Push Washington to Make a Deal?
June 7, 2012
Interview: Lawrence Summers interviewed by BBC News, Europe crisis hit by 'realism failure'
June 5, 2012
Press release: John Ruggie has received an honorary doctor of letters from the University of Waterloo
June 4, 2012
Video: Larry Summers Talks Jobs (CNBC's Squawk Box).
June 4, 2012
News coverage: Sustainability Science Program's Maffia Fellow Livio Valenti wins Harvard University President's Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship award
June 3, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, Look beyond interest rates to get out of the gloom
June 1, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heinemann's op-ed in Corporate Counsel, Give Credit Where Credit is Due
May 31, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heinemann's op-ed in The Harvard Business Review, Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?
May 30, 2012
Press release: Esko Aho, former prime minister of Finland and current Nokia VP, has been named an M-RCBG senior fellow. Click here to read the HKS press release, and here to read the Nokia press release.
May 26, 2012
Blog post: Robert Stavins most recent blog post, Can Market Forces Really Be Employed to Address Climate Change?
May 18, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in The New Times, The death of inflation targeting
May 15, 2012
Video: Larry Summers on why JP Morgan Loss Proves Banks Need Bigger Capital (Reuters' Freeland File).
May 14, 2012
Research: Tom Healey's research covered on the HKS website, The challenges facing public pensions in the United States, and how best to solve them
May 3, 2012
Video: Larry Summers on US Tax Policy (Brookings Institution/CSPAN).
April 30, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed at CNN.com, One answer to Secret Service scandal? Hire more women
April 29, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in The Washington Post, Europe's growth challenge
April 28, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Wal-Mart Bribery Case Raises Fundamental Governance Issues and his op-ed in the Harvard Business Review, News Corp, Walmart and CEO Failure to Investigate Wrongdoing
April 26, 2012
Research: Thomas Healey's research cited in aiCIO, Solutions in Sight for Underfunded Public Pensions
April 26, 2012
Op-ed: Larry Summers' op-ed in The Washington Post, Romney's fiscal fantasy plan
April 23, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in the Atlantic, Walmart's Massive Bribery Scandal: What Happens Now?
April 10, 2012
Op-ed: Amy Wilkinson's op-ed at CNN, JOBS act a win for startups and economy.
April 10, 2012
Blog post: Ben Heineman's post on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, The Ex-IM Bank Fight and the Future of Global Competitiveness.
April 4, 2012
Letter to the editor: John Ruggie's letter to the editor in The New York Times, Working conditions at Apple's overseas factories.
April 4, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed in Public Service Europe, The 2012 US election--through the prism of the economy.
March 29, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in The Guardian's Poverty Matters blog, Senegal's political transition hinges on fulfilling economic dreams of the young.
March 28, 2012
Interview: Lawrence Summers interviewed for MIT's Technology Review, Larry Summers and the Technology of Money.
March 27, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in BusinessDay, Laws of economics catching up with China.
March 25, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, How to ensure stimulus today, austerity tomorrow.
March 23, 2012
Research: Lawrence Summers' research released by Brookings, Fiscal policy in a depressed economy.
March 19, 2012
Op-ed: Ben Heineman's op-ed in The Atlantic, Goldman Whistleblower: High on Indignation, Low on Facts.
March 9, 2012
Quoted: Lawrence Summers quoted in Bloomberg, Ex-Treasury Head Summers Says Euro Past Worst, Needs Growth.
March 7, 2012
Op-ed: Elaine Kamarck's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Romney's Not to Blame for the GOP's Primary Slog.
March 5, 2012
Op-ed: Calestous Juma's op-ed in Business Daily, Critics of biotech crops proved wrong.
February 29, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in the Bangkok Post, Figures show Obama halted recession.
February 26, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, The US tax system needs rebuilding.
February 25, 2012
Video: Amy Wilkinson on creating an entrepreneurial culture (C-SPAN Video Library).
Winter, 2012
Op-ed: Roger Porter's op-ed in the International Economy's Symposium of Views, Can Tax Reform Save the U.S. Economy?
February 16, 2012
Feature: SSP Fellow Daniele Lantagne featured in the Harvard Gazette, Willing a way to clean water.
February 16, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in Foreign Policy, Off the beaten path.
February 15, 2012
Op-ed: Herman Leonard's op-ed in Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge newsletter, Occupy Wall Street Protesters Have a Point.
February 13, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed on Bloomberg, U.S. has 10M fewer jobs than it should.
February 13, 2012
Report coverage: HEEP's policy brief covered in Forbes, Cap and Trade Curbed Acid Rain: 7 Reasons Why It Can Do the Same for Climate Change.
February 5, 2012
Op-ed: Linda Bilmes' op-ed in The Boston Globe, And now, battles with hardly any rules.
February 2, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's op-ed in Foreign Policy, The Little Economy that Could.
January 31, 2012
January 2012
Award coverage: A paper co-authored by Brigitte Madrian has been honored with the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, which recognizes scholarly writing on lifelong financial security. It is titled Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An experiment on Index Mutual Funds. Additional coverage at TIAA-CREF and in the Harvard Crimson.
January 26, 2012
Op-ed: Jeffrey Frankel's blog post in the Bangkok Post, Cycle of crisis looms over emerging markets.
January 24, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in the Financial Times, Economic uncertainty is no excuse for inaction.
January 24, 2012
Blog post: Robert Stavins' blog post on the Oxford University Press OUPblog, International Climate Policy: The Durban Platform Opens a Window.
January 20, 2012
Op-ed: Lawrence Summers' op-ed in The New York Times, What You (Really) Need to Know.
January 12, 2012
Research: Rohini Pande co-authors a study, Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India, published in the January 12 issue of Science
January 6, 2012
Articles: Ben Heineman writes on Super PACs: The WMDs of Campaign Finance in The Atlantic and on Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network.
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