Harvard Kennedy School will change you
Revisit moments from the 2022–2023 academic year at HKS.
Stories from HKS
A generation later, revisiting the debate on nuclear weapons ethics
HKS Professor Joseph Nye reflects on how nuclear ethics have shifted since the Cold War—and what hasn’t changed.
If you don’t have multiracial democracy, you don’t have democracy at all
HKS professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Archon Fung say America’s refusal to come to grips with the role race has played in the formation of our democracy has undermined progress toward political equality.
Ban Ki-moon urges the HKS Class of 2023 to “fix what my generation failed to fix”
Echoing Kennedy, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon MC/MPA 1984 urges HKS graduates to tackle climate change, lead with compassion.
Power and accountability in civil society
HKS faculty discuss the power of funders over the social sector, who gets to determine social value, and how a sector facing the hardest problems can still do such good work.
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