Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

With the visionary support of Malcolm Wiener, HKS has developed pathbreaking ideas in social policy.

On October 28, Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth, University of California, Berkeley spoke on "The Triumph of Injustice." 

From October 7 to December 6, 2019, the Wiener Center hosted the traveling exhibit Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America.

New faculty member Will Dobbie talks about the common threads linking criminal justice, education, and consumer finance.

On September 11-13, Harvard celebrated the career of  sociologist William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.

HKS has named David Deming as the faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.  He began his appointment on July 1, 2019.

Educators have praised “The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children” as one of the most comprehensive studies on parenting.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad discusses the role religion and ethics have played in his life at the "Life Matters" talk.