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April 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, on his latest book, The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private…
| Robert D. Putnam
April 5, 2021, Video: "The JMU College of Business Spring 2021 Economic Seminar Series hosted guest speaker Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of “The Upswing” on March 24, 2021. Check out this insightful exchange between SSLS student Kai Degner and Putnam on free speech, listening, and the importance of citizens feeling heard by societal leaders."
HKS Author - Robert Putnam
| Arthur Brooks
February 5, 2021, Video: "HKS Webcast Series: A Conversation with Arthur Brooks on Nonprofit Leadership"
| Frances Frei
December 2, 2020, Video: "In this episode of Talks at GS, Frances Frei discusses her work advising companies on how to spearhead cultural change and insights on leadership from her book, "Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You." Learn More "
Non-HKS Author Website - Frances Frei
| Dante Roscini
August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Dante Roscini, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, on the economic fallout of COVID-19, sovereign debt crises, and the current investing environment in Europe. |…
| Lawrence H. Summers
July 3, 2020, Video, "Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says the U.S. government’s mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic has dealt a heavy blow to the country’s self-confidence and global standing. “The United States, once a can-do nation, will have one of the worst records in dealing with a threat that faced everybody around the world,” the former Obama and Clinton administration official said in an interview on Bloomberg Wall Street…
| Ricardo Hausmann
June 30, 2020, Opinion, "We have yet to identify the best explanations for countries’ varying success in controlling the pandemic, which obviously is enormously valuable when designing public-health strategies with potentially huge consequences. But knowledge does not advance just by formulating plausible hypotheses."
| Archon Fung
June 10, 2020, Video, "The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed our health and economy. Several leading thinkers have proposed a massive public jobs program, reminiscent of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, that would hire hundreds of thousands who need employment to do much of the hard work of fighting COVID-19 and dramatically enhancing health care in the United States."
| David King
June 9, 2020, Video, "Join us for Part 2 of our conversation with Prof. David King, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Part 1 focused on leadership and the challenges COVID-19 presents to systems of governance. In Part 2 of our discussion, discover..."
| Joseph Nye
May 7, 2020, Opinion, "During times of crisis, the most effective leaders are those who can build solidarity by educating the public about its own interests. Sadly, in the case of COVID-19, the leaders of the world's two largest economies have gone in the opposite direction, all but ensuring that the crisis will deepen."