PolicyCast

PolicyCast

Harvard Kennedy School

PolicyCast explores research-based policy solutions to the big problems and issues we're facing in our society and our world. Host Ralph Ranalli talks with leading Harvard University academics and researchers, visiting scholars, dignitaries, and world leaders. PolicyCast is produced at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


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HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 6 January 2020 English

The media said the recent UN Climate Summit was an utter failure. Environmental Economist Robert Stavins begs to differ. Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 10 December 2019 English

Harvard Kennedy School Assistant Professor of Public Policy Benjamin Schneer says the drawing of electoral districts is a complex and partisan process that often results in politicians picking their voters …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 25 November 2019 English

A short decade from now, Africa will have the youngest workforce in an aging world and the potential to become a spectacular economic success story. Or it could become home …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 12 November 2019 English

Activists from around the world reach out to Harvard Kennedy School Professor Erica Chenoweth on an almost daily basis. And they mostly ask the same question: How can we fight …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 28 October 2019 English

Harvard Kennedy School Professor David Deming, whose research focuses on the economics of education, recently wrote a New York Times op-ed titled “Tuition-free College Could Cost Less Than You Think.” …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 16 October 2019 English

Iris Bohnet is a behavioral economist, a leading researcher into gender bias, and Harvard Kennedy School's academic dean. She’s got some tough advice for the world’s biggest governments, corporations, and …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 30 September 2019 English

Ambassador Wendy Sherman has been at the table for some of the most challenging negotiations in recent history. She’s held talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and sparred …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 16 September 2019 English

Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Mark Fagan is spearheading the Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, helping to ensure government officials can successfully navigate …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 14 September 2019 English

Harvard Kennedy School's PolicyCast is back! Enjoy this preview of our relaunch with host Thoko Moyo of upcoming episodes featuring autonomous vehicles expert Mark Fagan, Center for Public Leadership Director …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 30 May 2018 English

Professor Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Kennedy School’s Center for International Development, and Tim Cheston, a research fellow with the center’s Growth Lab, explain how they leveraged data from the …