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| Christopher Malloy
May/June 2021, Case Study: "Sahan Kumara couldn’t believe what he was seeing online. Two hours earlier, a tsunami had hit Indonesia, sending a wall of water gushing through resorts, sweeping away villages, flooding fields, and killing thousands. Now the waves had struck the coast of his own island nation, causing similar devastation."…
| Sushma Raman | Mathias Risse
November 5, 2020, Video: "Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice:…
| Jane Nelson | John Ruggie | David Wood
October 16, 2020, Video; "In this episode of Harvard Kennedy School's Dean's Discussions, members of the HKS faculty discuss the ways that the private sector can be a force for social change."
| Lawrence H. Summers
September 2020, Paper: "This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns difficult. Here we provide an economy-wide calculation that nets out the many spillover margins. We further assess the role of capital investment, diffusion delays, learning-by-doing,…
July 29, 2020, Paper, "The notion of social impact has been the subject of considerable interest in multiple literatures. Researchers studying strategy, organization theory, organizational behavior, human resource management, and social issues have long discussed the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a means by which organizations can have a positive impact on their diverse stakeholders, communities, and societies (Adler,…
2020, Paper, "The purpose of this toolkit is to facilitate the measurement of social capital and social cohesion, particularly in the context of evaluating Community-Driven Development (CDD) programs in settings affected by fragility, conflict, migration and forced displacement. The toolkit is designed to measure the multiple underlying dimensions of each concept while also being easy to use by evaluators and researchers. The toolkit contains…
May/June 2020, Opinion. "There’s a reason climate change is often described as a “wicked problem.” Fully decarbonizing the economy will require not only completely transforming the global energy infrastructure, at a cost of many trillions of dollars, but also retrofitting all of the world’s buildings, remaking the planet’s agricultural practices, and revolutionizing transportation systems. It is difficult to see how this can be accomplished…
| Ashley Whillans
April 30, 2020, Opinion, "With the pandemic forcing millions of Americans into financial distress, it is only natural to want to lend friends and family a hand. But giving them a gift to help them out can do a lot of harm—unless you do it the right way. In new research, we find that people who receive money or other gifts feel embarrassed, ashamed and generally terrible about themselves when those gifts directly address their financial needs. But…
| Mihir A. Desai | Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Youngme Moon
Standout Companies and Breakout Phenomena. Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Mihir Desai, April 8, 2020, Audio, "Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss companies that are standing out during the coronavirus crisis, including Zoom and World Central Kitchen (founded by Chef José Andrés). They also discuss breakout phenomena associated with the widespread shutdown. "…
| Gary King
Supporting Information: Survey Data and Human Computation for Improved Flu Tracking. Gary King, April 5, 2020, Paper, "We describe a method for analyzing survey data and search history for real-time tracking of Influenza-like Illness (ILI). This supporting document outlines in detail the steps we took to implement the survey, analyze it, and build a flu-tracking model from it. We first describe the process for labeling queries according to whether…