An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Harvard University
Harvard is at the frontier of academic and intellectual discovery. Those who venture here—to learn, research, teach, work, and grow—join nearly four centuries of students and scholars in the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and a better world.
As a research university and nonprofit institution, Harvard is focused on creating educational opportunities for people from many lived experiences.
Harvard has 12 degree-granting Schools and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. We also offer countless of non-degree opportunities for professional and lifelong learners, including executive education, continuing education, and online courses.
Links
Displaying 221 - 240 of 529 articles
Americans are spending almost three and a half hours on their phones and tablets every day, twice the amount just five years ago. A behavioral scientist offers a few tips on how to take control.
HIV negative children born to women with HIV have a greater risk of dying before their first birthday.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
Government agencies spend millions of dollars yearly to buy and demolish homes sited in floodplains. But the program is slow, cumbersome and doesn’t always help those who need it most.
If you would like to assist from afar, let the professionals procure goods and services.
Many US cities are investing in bike infrastructure and shade trees. Properly located, these additions can make streets cooler, cleaner and safer for all users – even those who drive.
Law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
The Conversation20.5 MB (download)
Governments and businesses are using "nudges" to influence our choices, but how? On this podcast episode, Cass Sunstein, a Harvard professor who wrote the book on nudges, unpacks behavioural science.
Talk of Saudi Arabia helping Elon Musk take Tesla private is the latest example of a long line of sovereign wealth fund investments.
A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.
¿Por qué en la vida se nos presentan tantos problemas que parecen aferrarse a nosotros con tal fuerza que no importa lo que hagamos para resolverlos? La psicología habla de “deslizamiento de concepto”.
Cuando algo se vuelve raro, la gente puede percibirlo en más lugares. ¿Qué es en psicología el “concepto progresivo” que hace que cambiemos la forma en que categorizamos el mundo que nos rodea?
How do brains convert experiences into memories? New research explores the chain of events by focusing on what genes shift into gear when neurons are firing.
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.
In the wake of two hurricanes in the Turks and Caicos Islands, researchers document for the first time that catastrophic storms can be agents of natural selection, influencing how species evolve.
Do you suspect the American voting system needs an overhaul? If so, you’re not alone.
El derecho internacional reconoce que las mujeres y grupos LGBTQ enfrentan formas únicas de violencia que podrían merecer el asilo. Pero EEUU ya afirma que el abuso doméstico es un asunto “privado”.
The beautiful game still needs to perform on bigger social issues.
It’s a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the ‘concept creep’ that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
Generating less electricity with fossil fuels could help save lives.
Authors
-
Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Food and Climate Policy Fellow, Harvard University
-
Physician-scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
-
Research Director of the People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School
-
Research Scientist, Harvard University
-
Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard University
-
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Public Health, Harvard University
-
Associate, Sustainability Science, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
-
Professor of Law, Harvard University
-
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
-
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University | DPhil Student, University of Oxford, Harvard University
