Cambridge, MA—Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group (BIG) and the Mayors Innovation Project are launching a partnership to develop and test behavioral solutions to city problems. Working with Harvard’s team of behavioral economists, decision research scholars, and behavioral scientists, Mayors Innovation Project member cities will access innovative research and co-develop high-impact, low-cost solutions to city problems. The first cohort of six cities – Columbia SC, Tacoma WA, Golden CO, Grand Rapids MI, Burlington VT, and South Bend IN –  were selected to participate via a… Read more about Collaboration Between Harvard Kennedy School and Mayors Innovation Project Brings Behavioral Science to Cities

Cambridge, MA—The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named civil rights activist and U.S. Representative John Lewis (Georgia, 5^th District) as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award. The award honors Congressman Lewis for his decades-long crusade to protect and secure human rights and civil liberties for all Americans.
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Current Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellow Ziad Reslan offers a pragmatic and personal response to President Trump's recent executive order restricting travel from seven predominantly-Muslim countries. From Nick Kristof's New York Times blog On the Ground.
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