Public Management

This section focuses on innovations in public management, including human resources, labor relations, leadership, performance management, procurement, and shared services.

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.

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Design Thinking for Better Government Services

July 24, 2018

When "What Works" Doesn't Work: The Limits of Evidence-Based Policymaking

May 31, 2018

All Agencies Can Now Buy Innovative Tech at Shark-Tank Speed

Government Executive, May 26, 2018

How Honolulu Cut $1 Million from the IT Budget and Continues to Innovate

Government Technology, May 14, 2018

Government Performance Consortium: Strategies for a More Joyful Government

Government Performance Consortium, May 8, 2018

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Courses

Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results

Recovering the Public in Public Value: Strategic Management in Government

Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies

Creating Collaborative Solutions: Innovations in Governance

Mastering Negotiation: Building Agreements Across Boundaries

Senior Executive Fellows

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

Emerging Leaders

Senior Executives in State and Local Government

Leaders in Development: Managing Change in a Dynamic World

Leading Successful Programs: Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness

Research Centers & Programs

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Center for International Development

Center for Public Leadership

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

Program on Crisis Leadership

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Taubman Center for State and Local Government

The Institute of Politics

The Women and Public Policy Program

Trade and Negotiations Program

Faculty Experts

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

Arnold Howitt

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Arnold M. Howitt, Executive Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Co-director, Program on Crisis Leadership.

David Ellwood

Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

Elaine Kamarck

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Herman Leonard

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

Jorrit de Jong

Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

Malcolm Sparrow

Professor of the Practice of Public Management

Marshall Ganz

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Pippa Norris

Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Quinton Mayne

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Robert D. Behn, Senior Lecturer in 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

Steven Kelman

Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management

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