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Assessing Financial Vulnerability in the Nonprofit Sector.

Effective nonprofit governance relies upon understanding an organization’s financial condition and vulnerabilities. However, financial vulnerability of nonprofit organizations is a relatively new area ...
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Harvard professor explains the basics of universal basic income

Through a series of longitudinal studies, Professor Randall Kekoa Akee looked at the impact of a Tribal casino’s universal basic income (UBI) payments to their tribe members. Over the course of a ...
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Joseph Nye, Harvard professor, developer of “soft power” theory, and an architect of modern international relations, dies at 88

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, and ...
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Bias, Distrust, and Trauma

George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers was followed not only by global protests for racial justice but also by the promise of reforms meant to curtail anti-Black law enforcement patterns ...
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New research shows that powerhouse institutions play an outsized role in scientific innovation and discovery

Where does scientific discovery happen, and why does it matter? A recent analysis by Amitabh Chandra, the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, director of the Harvard Healthcare Policy ...
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Safeguarding Democracy: Free Speech as a Human and Civil Right

The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to ...
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A giant in his field and a caring mentor, Christopher “Sandy” Jencks has died at 88

Harvard Professor Christopher “Sandy” Jencks, a sociologist who won accolades for his pioneering research on economic inequality and earned admiration from generations of graduate students for his ...
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What’s Behind the Non-Bank Mortgage Boom?

Mortgages constitute a large, complex, and controversial market in the United States, shaped largely by federal policymaking. Since 2010, the role of non-banks – a term commonly used to define firms ...
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Women's Leadership Board

Comprised of leaders from the most senior levels of business, academia, and the non-profit sector, members of the Women’s Leadership Board (WLB) serve as key supporters and ambassadors of the Women ...
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Perspectives on China

AS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING has strengthened his grip on power, China has solidified its position as the United States’s only peer competitor on the global stage. Its rise ...
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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

Behavioral decision research provides many important insights into managerial behavior. From negotiation to investment decisions, the authors weave behavioral decision research into the organizational ...
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Conscience of a Black Conservative: The 1964 Election and the Rise of the National Negro Republican Assembly

n the immediate aftermath of the election of 1964, no group was more visibly alienated by the candidacy of Barry Goldwater than the black electorate. Abandoning the Republican Party en masse, black ...