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Foreign policy skill is mostly a value judgment—but at least one aspect of strategic competence can be measured.
Research by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Richard Zeckhauser and Jeffrey Friedman (PhD 2013), an associate professor from Dartmouth College, shows that traditional measures of foreign policy competence rely on value judgments that almost always leave room for reasonable disagreement.
The past shapes the present when it comes to Southern roots, race, and marriage trends
Professor Deirdre Bloome and coauthor Garrett Pace from the University of Nevada found that Black and white people whose grandparents grew up in the southern U.S. are more likely to marry than people with geographic lineages elsewhere in the U.S.
Readers prefer simpler headlines—unless they are journalists
Researchers from Ohio State University, Michigan State University, and Harvard Kennedy School found that readers prefer simpler headlines to more complex ones, even when the stories are about complicated topics.
Professors say they teach critical thinking. But is that what students are learning?
New research explores differences between instructors who say they teach critical thinking and the perception of students at professional schools of what they are being taught.
Centralization trend in global urban transportation systems can yield data to help make those systems more efficient and popular
A team of researchers, including HKS’s Rema Hanna, believe this case study demonstrates the potential role of data-driven urban transport network design in planning thriving cities around the world.
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