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
Bosché, Michelle, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, and Aditya S. Pawar. "Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement." American Journal of Public Health 115.4 (April 2025): 500-505.
Bazerman, Max. "An Insider’s Perspective on How to Reduce Fraud in the Social Sciences." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (March 27, 2025).
Battilana, Julie, Christine M. Beckman. and Julie Yen. "On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory." Administrative Science Quarterly (2025).
Kayyem, Juliette. "Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?" The Atlantic, March 1, 2025.
Lira, Benjamin, Todd Rogers, Daniel G. Goldstein, Lyle Ungar, and Angela L. Duckworth. "Learning not cheating: AI assistance can enhance rather than hinder skill development." 22 February 2025.
Fagan, Mark L. Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective. Cheltanham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Voelkel, Jan, Michael Stagnaro, James Chu... Julia Minson, et al. "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity." Science 386.6719 (October 18, 2024): eadh4764.
Tulan, Dilan, Charles A. Dorison, Nancy Gibbs, and Julia A. Minson. "Can Conversational Receptiveness Build Trust in the Media?" Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (August 2, 2024).
Born, Dana H., and Ayse Yemiscigil. "Leadership Perspective: What Makes Leadership Development Impactful? Exploring a Whole-Person Approach." Journal of Character Leadership and Development 11.2 (Summer 2024): 84–90.
Shulman, Hillary C., David M. Markowitz, and Todd Rogers. "Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing." Science Advances 10.23 (7 Jun 2024): eadn2555.
Ganz, Marshall. People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Fung, Archon, and Dennis Thompson. "Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes." Governance (June 2024).
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell Brooks. "Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10.2 (June 2024): 30-67.
Fung, Archon, Max Kiefel, and Nick Chedli Carter. "From Crisis to Opportunity: How the City of Portland Embraced Democratic Innovation." Ash Center Occasional Papers Series, June 2024.
Brooks, Arthur. "America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journal of Democracy 35.2 (April 2024): 23-39.
Bowles, Hannah Riley, Jens Mazei, and Heidi H. Liu. "“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership." Perspectives on Psychological Science (March 18, 2024).
Fung, Archon, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Fung, Archon, and Sean Gray, eds. Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in A Globalized World. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Battilana, Julie, Leszek Krol, Kara Sheppard-Jones, and Alexandra Ubalijoro. "Beyond a niche approach: Could social business become the norm?" Social Economy Science: Transforming the Economy and Making Society More Resilient. Ed. Gorgi Krlev, Dominika Wruk, Giulio Pasi, and Marika Bernhard. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Galinsky, Adam D., Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah R. Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin, and Joe C. Magee. "Are many sex/gender differences really power differences?" PNAS Nexus 3.2 (February 2024): pgae025.
Moore, Molly, Charles A. Dorison, and Julia Minson. "The contingent reputational benefits of selective exposure to partisan information." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 152.12 (December 2023): 3490-3525.
Dimmock, Aaron, and Dana Born. "A More Perfect Union: Meaning in the Preamble of the United States Constitution." Journal of Character & Leadership Development 10.3 (Fall 2023): 101-105.
Brooks, Arthur, and Oprah Winfrey. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. Penguin Random House, 2023.
Rogers, Todd, and Jessica Lasky-Fink. Writing for Busy Readers. Penguin Random House, 2023.
Pache, Anne-Claire, Julie Battilana, and Channing Spencer. "An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity." Academy of Management Journal (20 July 2023).
Minson, Julia, Corinne Bendersky, Carsten de Dreu, Eran Halperin, and Juliana Schroeder. "Experimental studies of conflict: Challenges, solutions, and advice to junior scholars." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 177 (July 2023): 104257.
Ganz, Marshall, Julia Lee Cunningham, Inbal Ben Ezer and Alaina Segura. "Crafting Public Narrative to Enable Collective Action: A Pedagogy for Leadership Development." Academy of Management Learning & Education 22.2 (June 2023): 169-190.
Kimsey, Marissa, Thijs Geradts, and Julie Battilana. "Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change." Strategy Science (2023): 1-11.
Richmond, Matthew A., and Elizabeth McKenna. "Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 0.0 (2023): 1-18.
Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Joe Nudell, Julian Nyarko, Emma Brunskill, Todd Rogers, and Sharad Goel. "Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment." .
VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Arthur Brooks. "A Public Health Approach to Negative News Media: The 3-to-1 Solution." American Journal of Health Promotion 37.4 (May 2023): 447-449.
Nye, Joseph S. Soft Power and Great-Power Competition. Springer Singapore, 2023.
Nye, Joseph S. Jr. "Nuclear Ethics Revisited." Ethics & International Affairs 37.1 (Spring 2023): 5-17.
Cohen, Joshua, and Archon Fung. "Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere." Constellations (March 2023): 92-97.
Bilmes, Linda, Mauricio Rodas, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Devon Rowe, Aminata Touré, and Lan Xue. "Public institutions and support for climate funding." United Nations ECOSOC, March 16. 2023.
Patel, Mitesh S.,... Todd Rogers, et al. "A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit." American Journal of Health Promotion 37.3 (March 2023): 324-332.
Yemiscigil, Ayse, Dana Born, and Horace Ling. "What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed?" Harvard Business Review (February 28, 2023).
Born, Dana. "Setting new standards of leadership." vlog: Lessons from a year of war in Ukraine, February 21, 2023.
Levin, Joel M., Leigh A. Bukowski, Julia A. Minson, and Jeremy M. Kahn. "The political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States." PNAS 120.7 (February 14, 2023): e2216179120.
Bilmes, Linda J. "I helped balance the federal budget in the 1990s – here’s just how hard it will be for the GOP to achieve that same rare feat." The Conversation, February 1, 2023.
Adler, Paul S., Amr Adly, Daniel Erian Armanios, Julie Battilana, Zlatko Bodrožic, Stewart Clegg, Gerald F. Davis et al. "Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion." Journal of Management Inquiry 32.1 (January 2023): 1-18.
Cushman, Joy, and Elizabeth McKenna. "Power Metrics: Measuring What Matters to Build a Multiracial Democracy." Democracy & Power Innovation Fund, 2023.
Aiyar, Yamini, Rolf Alter, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics." Public Sector Economics Journal (December 2022): 456-458.
Gilman, Hollie Russon, Archon Fung, and Mark Schmitt. "Designing for Community Engagement: Toward More Equitable Civic Participation in the Federal Regulatory Process." Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; New America, December 2021.
Martínez Orbegozo, Eva Flavia, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal, and Lisa Cox. "Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations." The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 58.4 (December 2022): 595-645.
Moore, Don A., and Max H. Bazerman. "Leadership & overconfidence." Behavioral Science & Policy 8.2 (2022): 59-69.
Wang, Huiyao, and Joseph S. Nye. "Power Shifts in the Twenty-First Century." Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century: CCG Global Dialogues. Ed. Huiyao Wang, and Lu Miao. Springer Nature, 2022, 131-145.
Bazerman, Max H. Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Princeton University Press, 2022.
Yemiscigil, Ayse, Dana Born, Scott Snook, and Emily Pate. "Authentic leader(ship) development and leaders' psychological well-being: an outcome-wide analysis." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 43.8 (2022): 1287-1307.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, and Todd Rogers. "Signals of value drive engagement with multi-round information interventions." PLOS One 17.10 (October 2022): e0276072.