Our center’s faculty and researchers are committed to inspiring and enhancing the capacity for principled, effective public leadership across government, politics, civil society, and business. We invite educators from around the globe to explore our wealth of resources, designed to support the development of future leaders.
Below, you will find a diverse array of materials that can enrich your teaching and empower your students to make a meaningful impact in their communities and beyond.
Teaching and Learning Through Dangerous Times
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Usable Knowledge
Leadership is Not Morally Neutral: Supporting LGBTQ Youth
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Social Impact Review
The 'Ghost Budget': How America Pays for Endless War.
Linda J. Bilmes
Just Security
“Simply not driving off a cliff”: Linda Bilmes says the latest debt ceiling fight is a symptom of larger budgetary malaise
Linda J. Bilmes
Harvard Kennedy School
Why is Federal Spending So Hard to Cut? Debt Ceiling Fights will only be solved by Budget Reform.
Linda J. Bilmes
Brookings Institution FixGov Blog
I helped balance the federal budget in the 1990s – here’s just how hard it will be for the GOP to achieve that same rare feat
Linda J. Bilmes
The Conversation
Building State Capability book (downloadable PDF)
The BSC Blog: 750 Stories from Around the Globe
4P Model for Strategic Leadership Podcast
Robert Wilkinson
Creating Public Value
Mark Moore
Managing Difficult Conversations Effectively Podcast
Robert Wilkinson
Building Effective Teams Podcast
Monica Higgins
Building Communities of Practice Podcast
Making Space for Purpose-Driven Work in Bureaucracies Podcast
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans
Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere
Rozalyn Mock, Megan Willis-Jackson, Bobby Wang, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Linda Bilmes, Brian Iammartino
HKS Working Paper
City Leader Guide on Fiscal Resilience Post-Covid-19
Fernando Fernandez-Monge, Rodrigo Dorador, Brian Iammartino, Linda J. Bilmes, Jorrit de Jong, Stephen Goldsmith, Sari Ladin-Sienne
Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.
In Times of Multiple Crises, Keep Your Eye on Public Money
Juraj Nemec, Lamia Moubayed Bissat, Katarina Ott, Linda Bilmes, Ronald Mendoza
United Nations DESA Public Institutions Blog
Regulating and Reforming the Insurance industry to Combat climate change and Accelerate Sustainable Development.
Linda J. Bilmes
United Nations Economic and Social Council, Committee of Experts on Public Administration.
Transforming the insurance industry to combat climate change-induced poverty and accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Linda J. Bilmes, Soonae Park, Mauricio Rodas, Devon Rowe, Aminata Touré and Lan Xue
United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration Blog
Seeking the Good
Arthur Brooks
Leadership and Happiness Lab monthly digital journal
The Happiness Abstract
Arthur Brooks
Leadership and Happiness Lab biweekly newsletter
How to Build a Life
Arthur Brooks
The Atlantic
America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue
Arthur Brooks
Journal of Democracy
How Happy is Gen Z?
Arthur Brooks
Gallup
When Perceptions of Public Service Harms the Public Servant: Predictors of Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Government
Brenda Sciepura, Elizabeth Linos
Review of Public Personnel Administration
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment
Elizabeth Linos, Krista Ruffini, Stephanie Wilcoxen
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Intersectional Peer Effects at Work: The Effect of White Coworkers on Black Women's Careers.
Elizabeth Linos, Sanaz Mobasseri, and Nina Roussille
HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
Teaching in the Face of Book Bans
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Usable Knowledge
Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom
Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Language and Power in the Fight for Human Rights
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Justice Matters Podcast, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Zooming Out on the LGBTQ+ Movement Worldwide
Diego Garcia Blum, Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Harvard Center for International Development
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans
Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
The US has a history of paying reparations. Why won’t it pay Black Americans?
Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks
The Boston Globe
Paying reparations is possible, based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups
Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks, The Conversation
Valerie Jarrett and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response
Kimberlyn Leary, Robert Wilkinson
Harvard Kennedy School CASE Program
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma
Jessica Lasky-Fink, Elizabeth Linos
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments
Elizabeth Linos, Allen Prohofsky, Aparna Ramesh, Jesse Rothstein, Matt Unrath
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Demystifying college costs: how nudges can and can’t help
Elizabeth Linos, Vikash Reddy, Jesse Rothstein
Behavioural Public Policy
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Stefano DellaVigna, Woojin Kim, Elizabeth Linos
Journal of Political Economy