Economic Development

This section has content related to economic and community development. Primary subject areas include business incentives, community development, employment, entrepreneurship, food and agriculture, housing, job training, poverty alleviation, trade and urban planning.

Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation (Part 1): Mechanics, Partners, and Clusters

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, June 20, 2013

This research paper is one of three in a series which builds on past research addressing social innovation.

Center for Economic Opportunity

Innovations in American Government Awards, January 1, 2011

Florida to Spend $240 Million on Rent and Mortgage Help

Route Fifty, June 25, 2020

Cities offer cash as they compete for new residents amid remote work boom

Fast Company, June 22, 2020

Digital coins issued by City of Akron to assist economic recovery

News Media, June 18, 2020

Can Land Banks Get Us Out of This Mess?

City Lab, June 15, 2020

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Courses

Mastering Negotiation: Building Agreements Across Boundaries

Senior Executive Fellows

Global Change Agents: Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges and Leading Change

Senior Executives in State and Local Government

Leaders in Development: Managing Change in a Dynamic World

Strategies for Building and Leading Diverse Organizations

Infrastructure in a Market Economy: Public-Private Partnerships in a Changing World

Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance: Identifying and Capitalizing on Irrational Investment Practices

A Course in Exponential Fundraising

Public Financial Management in a Changing World

Mastering Trade Policy: Understanding and Acting in Today's Economy

Comparative Tax Policy and Administration

Leading Economic Growth

A Cutting Edge of Development Thinking

Research Centers & Programs

The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

Center for International Development

Center for Public Leadership

Center on the Developing Child

Environment and Natural Resources Program

Financial Sector Program

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Harvard Environmental Economics Program

Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program

Harvard University Center for the Environment

International Security Program

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government

Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy

Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Regulatory Policy Program

Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

Sustainability Science Program

Taubman Center for State and Local Government

Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard

The Institute of Politics

The John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business

The Women and Public Policy Program

Trade and Negotiations Program

Faculty Experts

Candelaria Garay

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Akash Deep

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Alan Altshuler

Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Emeritus, GSD and HKS; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Anthony Saich

Daewoo Professor of International Affairs

Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Brigitte Madrian

Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management in the Aetna Chair

Daniel Schrag

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, FAS

Dwight Perkins

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, FAS

Edward Cunningham

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Fredrik Logevall

Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs

Herman Leonard

George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management, HKS; Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, HBS

Jeffrey Liebman

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy

Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government

John Donahue

Raymond Vernon Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Jorrit de Jong

Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

Marshall Ganz

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Matthew Baum

Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications

Pippa Norris

Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Quinton Mayne

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Robert Stavins

A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development

Ryan Sheely

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Tarek Masoud

Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations

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