The 26 essays in this book were written by HKS Professor Stavins and his co-authors over the period 2000–2011 and are collected in this book for the first time.
HKS Lecturer & ethics columnist Jeffrey L. Seglin provides practical tips for succeeding professionally by using manners in the workplace.
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework to evaluate alternative development pathways and to link knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainability goals.
The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance
In The End of Big, Nicco Mele argues that unless we exercise deliberate choices over the use of our technologies, we doom ourselves to a future that tramples human values, generates chaos in our social structures, and destroys rather than enhances freedom.
Matt Andrews explains why the results of institutional reform are frequently limited and then suggests ways to overcome these limits.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, who listens? Presidents, prime ministers, chief executives, and all who care about global strategy. Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill, two leading strategic thinkers, asked Lee Kuan Yew the toughest questions that matter most to thoughtful Americans weighing the challenges of the next quarter century.
HKS Lecturer, Jorrit de Jong, dissects the strategies and tactics that social innovators employ to navigate the risky waters of their institutional environments.
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation.
Stressing humanity’s collective ownership of the earth, Mathias Risse offers a new theory of global distributive justice--what he calls pluralist internationalism--where in different contexts, different principles of justice apply.
Sparrow uses his skill in blending the academic and practical to help us decode the complexity and multi-dimensional character of risk and harm reduction.