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Addressing Economic Challenges in an Evolving Health Care Market [Event]

October 7, 2015

The Hamilton Project  | Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, participated in a policy forum addressing economic challenges in an evolving health care market, with a focus on three new papers released in conjunction with the event. The event, held at The Brookings Institution, featured opening remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, and framing remarks by CEA Chairman Jason Furman.  View papers, presentation slides, and event video online.



Addressing social issues with social science: An interview between Professor William Julius Wilson and Sara Miller McCune

August 18, 2017

SAGE Insight |How should scholars address the problem of inequality in American society?  William Julius Wilson, an expert on race relations and inequality and the 2017 SAGE-CASBS award winner, recommends an interdisciplinary approach. Professor Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard.
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Advice for the New President and Congress

April 8, 2017

Harvard Graduate School Alumni Day | By Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, who delivered the keynote address at Harvard GSAS Alumni Day 2017.



Advice to students: Don’t be afraid to ask for help

March 6, 2020

Harvard Gazette | "At 11:43 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2015, I sent an email. And it changed my life." Anthony Abraham Jack argues we need to recast what it means to ask for help--not a sign of weakness, but a skill to be honed. Jack is Assistant Professor of Education and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.



African American Women in the Republican Party

July 17, 2016

C-SPAN—American History TV |  Interview with historian Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. The interview took place at the 2016 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April. Rigueur is the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, now out in paperback from Princeton University Press.



African-American Center at Harvard to Receive $10 Million Donation

October 6, 2016

Wall Street Journal | Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research announced  the gift, which is aimed at study of residents in poor neighborhoods in the Greater Boston area. "Leading the new research project, which Mr. Hutchins referred to as the crown jewel of the center, is Prof. William Julius Wilson, who has spent most of his career studying poverty in inner cities." Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard.



After Attica

March 8, 2015

Radio Open Source | With guests Bruce Western, Heather Ann Thompson, and Azan Reid



After Brexit, a changed future

June 24, 2016

Washington Post | Harvard analysts assess Brexit's implications, including Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies. "Euro-skeptical parties on the radical right and left of the political spectrum have been encouraged by the British vote to demand similar referenda in their own countries,” Hall said. “But mainstream political leaders are anxious to prevent this. They can only do so if they retain power, and that will be their first priority.  They can only do so if they can revive economic growth in Europe and limit the backlash against immigration. That will be very difficult to do.”



After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards

January 27, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government), Samuel Barrows (Ph.'14, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Educational Policy and Governance at Harvard), and Thomas Gift (also a postdoctoral fellow).



After gaining legitimacy, can online higher education replace traditional college?

October 4, 2016

Washington Post | Cites recent study by Professors Joshua Goodman (Harvard Kennedy School), Julia Melkers (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Amanda Pallais (Harvard Economics), who "found that students who enrolled in Georgia Tech’s $7,000 online master’s degree in computer science would not have gone anywhere else if the program didn’t exist. By 'satisfying large, previously unmet demand for mid-career training, this single program will boost annual production of American computer science master’s degrees by 8 percent,' the Harvard researchers concluded."
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