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Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

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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.

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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.

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Feature: The Data-Informed City

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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

Leadership and Public Learning, Foreword

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership and Public Learning." Foreword to Lessons in Leadership, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Maggid Books, 2015.

Operating Across Boundaries: Leading Adaptive Change

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Operating Across Boundaries: Leading Adaptive Change." Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Ed. Michael J. Harris, Daniel Rynhold, and Tamra Wright. Koren Publishers, 2013, 179-199.

Build the Stomach for the Journey

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Build the Stomach for the Journey." Mastering Public Health: Essential Skills for Effective Practice. Ed. Barry S. Levy and Joyce R. Gaufin. Oxford University Press, 2012, 311-312.

Leadership

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership." Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Ed. Richard A. Couto. Sage, 2010, 12-23.

Leadership and Values

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership and Values." Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Ed. Richard A. Couto. Sage, 2010, 24-27.

Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man's Challenge.

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man's Challenge." Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. Ed. Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode. Wiley, 2007, 311.

Foreword.

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Foreword." Youth Leadership: New Directions for Youth Development, No. 109. Ed. Max Klau, Steve Boyd, and Lynn Luckow. Jossey-Bass, 2006, 1-2.

Foreword.

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Foreword." Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects. Ed. Alexander Laufer, Todd Post, and Edward J. Hoffmann. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), History Division, 2005.

Adaptive Work.

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Adaptive Work." Encyclopedia of Leadership. Ed. George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns. Sage Publications, 2004.

Leadership Is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration.

Heifetz, Ronald A., and Marty Linsky. "Leadership Is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration." MBA in a Box. Ed. Joel Kurtzman; with Glenn Rifkin and Victoria Griffith. Crown Business, 2004.

Self-Management.

Heifetz, Ronald A., and Marty Linsky. "Self-Management." Encyclopedia of Leadership. Ed. George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns. Sage Publications, 2004.

Adaptive Work.

Heifetz, Ronald A. "Adaptive Work." The Adaptive State: Strategies for Personalizing in the Public Realm. Ed. Tom Bentley and James Wilsdon. Demos, 2003, 68-78.