Whether you complete a program on our historic Cambridge campus or through the flexibility of an online offering, your immersive learning experience at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education will ...

Forecasting—making structured, probabilistic predictions about future events—is used in fields ranging from finance to public health to climate policy. Assigning likelihoods to outcomes, and updating ...

Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser, Ariella S. Kristal. Can gender and race dynamics in performance appraisals be disrupted? The case of social influence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, ...

Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held view of mass ...

Stay up-to-date on the latest development research from Harvard CID faculty. The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, ...

Approximately 10.6 million people are admitted to our nation’s local jails every year. Although most are released on the day of arraignment or within one week, the average stay is closer over three ...

The Harvard Center for International Development is comprised of a myriad of voices, from students and faculty, to development practitioners, researchers, and leaders. CID Voices amplifies the work ...

Program Overview The shift from an individual contributor to a manager is one of the most pivotal transitions in a career, and those managerial promotions are often rewarded without the training ...

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats.

This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States--a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal scholars, social scientists, and historians. Adopting a ...

Four-star Admiral Bill McRaven, former commander of the U.S. Special Operations and Navy SEAL, has led a high-profile career—including facing Somali pirates, Osama Bin Laden, and his own commander in ...

At the end of June, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) reported that 4.6 million people had showed up in stadiums across North America to watch the 2026 Men’s World Cup so far.