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Leadership How Do They Do It? Faculty Researcher: Hannah Riley Bowles
“Much more theoretical attention has been paid to the barriers to women’s advancement than to how women may overcome ”...More »

Behavior Voter, Know Thyself Faculty Researcher: Todd Rogers Analyzing voter behavior in two recent elections, Rogers found that self-identified likely voters often don’t vote, and those who said they would not vote, in fact often did. The findings have important implications for pollster, political scientists, and politicians. More » Across the School Research Briefs A sample of recent research and writings from HKS faculty, including Amitabh Chandra on malpractice claims, Jeffrey Liebman on the fiscal discipline and the “baby boom bump,” Joseph Nye on the information revolution and radical change, and Graham Allison on North Korean nukes for sale.
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Education Students' Role in Teacher Evaluation Faculty Researcher: Ronald Ferguson The education landscape is dotted with metrics for evaluating teacher and student performance. But, unlike in colleges and universities, student feedback is rarely sought as part of the improvement effort in primary and secondary schools. That should change, Ferguson explains. More » International Relations Bringing Theory Back Faculty Researcher: Stephen Walt Theory remains essential for making sense of a complex world and diminishing its role is bad for international relations. Yet contemporary scholars often pay little regard to it, Walt argues, devoting most of their effort instead to "collecting data and testing empirical hypotheses."
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China Village Life Faculty Researcher: Anthony Saich Yantian, once a bucolic village in China’s Guangdong province, is now home to about 200 foreign-backed enterprises, alongside some 3,000 registered citizens and 80,000 migrant workers. As such, it is a microcosm of the rest of the country.
More » Environment Air Pollution and Infant Mortality Faculty Researcher: Rema Hanna It's estimated that almost 1.5 million people die each year from exposure to particulate matter in the atmosphere?—?far more than die from malaria or from drinking unclean water. In Mexico City, Hanna found the perfect place to study the tragic link between air pollution and infant mortality. More »