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Delivery worker wearing a medical mask and carrying packages.
Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

Daniel Schneider finds that state paid sick leave laws increased service workers’ access to paid sick leave and reduced the share of service workers who worked while sick.

A family with a father, mother, and two small children walking on a dirt path.
Feature: Connecting Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobility

Deirdre Bloome offers two frameworks for understanding the relationship between types of intergenerational mobility, or whether people are socioeconomically better off than their parents.

Two women in rural India dressed colorfully and carrying baskets on their heads.
Feature: Studying a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups

Michael Walton explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program, finding two major tensions.

A network of computer motherboards and other parts assembled to look like a miniature city.
Feature: The Data-Informed City

Jorrit de Jong presents a comprehensive framework for how cities can use data to address problems more effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with better accountability.

Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles To Multi-Fiduciary Obligations

Ruggie, John Gerard, Caroline Rees, and Rachel Davis. "Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles To Multi-Fiduciary Obligations." Business and Human Rights Journal (May 2021): 1-19.

Making 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Work: Contributions from Business and Human Rights

Ruggie, John Gerard, Caroline Rees, and Rachel Davis. "Making 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Work: Contributions from Business and Human Rights." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-034, November 2020.

Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights

Ruggie, John Gerard. Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Aung San Suu Kyi Signals Change in Burma, but Investors Should Proceed with Caution

Ruggie, John Gerard. "Aung San Suu Kyi Signals Change in Burma, but Investors Should Proceed with Caution." Christian Science Monitor, June 19, 2012.

Protect, Respect and Remedy: The United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights

Ruggie, John Gerard. "Protect, Respect and Remedy: The United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights." International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR. Ed. Mashood Baderin and Manisuli Ssenyonjo. Ashgate, 2010.

Business and Human Rights: Towards Operationalizing the
'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework

Ruggie, John Gerard. "Business and Human Rights: Towards Operationalizing the 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework." United Nations Human Rights Council, Eleventh Session, New York, April 22, 2009.

Protect, Respect and Remedy: The United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights

Ruggie, John Gerard. "Protect, Respect and Remedy: The United Nations Framework for Business and Human Rights." Report presented at the American Society of International Law, Proceedings, 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 25-28, 2009.