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View ArticleThe Enigmatic Mr. Putin
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Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
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View ArticleToward a Liberal Realist Foreign Policy
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Greening China
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View ArticleThe Economic Agenda
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View ArticleReopening the Doors to College
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An Ounce of Prevention
A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crisesFinancial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail” David A. MossSeptember-October 2009 financial risk management planThe...
View ArticleThe Ph.D. Problem
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The Pay Problem
Jay Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana offer a new paradigm for executive compensationTime for a new paradigm for executive compensationJay LorschRakesh KhuranaMay-June 2010 the-pay-problemConcerns about the...
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View ArticleIn the Wake of War
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ForumExcerpt from "Reading Obama," by James T. KloppenbergDeliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American goveranceJames T. KloppenbergNovember-December 2010...
View ArticleTime to Electrify
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View ArticleColleges in Crisis
Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn discuss the crisis in U.S. higher educationDisruptive change comes to American higher educationClayton M. ChristensenMichael B. HornJuly-August 2011 colleges in...
View ArticleDisrupting Harvard?
Will new technologies and new academic models upend elite selective schools?Clayton M. ChristensenMichael B. HornJuly-August 2011 disrupting-harvardColleges in CrisisCould the new learning...
View ArticleBullish on Private Colleges
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View ArticleThe Case for Compromise
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View ArticleVoter Suppression Returns
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View ArticleHow Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politicsOn activism, litigation, and social change in America Michael J. KlarmanMarch-April 2013 How Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be Fifty...
View ArticleAnatomy of the Euro Crisis
Harvard scholar Peter A. Hall links political economy and the euro crisisThe political economy of a continent at cross-purposesPeter A. HallJuly-August 2013 Anatomy of the Euro Crisis“Ten years into...
View ArticleThe Keystone XL Pipeline
Harvard’s Michael McElroy has a scenario for approving the Keystone XL PipelineShould the president approve construction?Michael B. McElroyNovember-December 2013 The Keystone XL PipelineFew domestic...
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View ArticleA Fiscal Faustian Bargain
ForumThe economics of a Boston Olympics analyzed Analyzing the economics of a Boston OlympicsAndrew ZimbalistJuly-August 2015 A Fiscal Faustian BargainThe nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Move?
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