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
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Biopolitics of CRISPR." The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics. Ed. Arvin M. Gouw and Ted Peters. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Deming, David, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence Summers. "Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market." Strengthening America’s Economic Dynamism. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Luke Pardue. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2024.
Borrmann, Vera, Christopher Coenen, Alfred Nordmann, Roberto Cantoni, Sascha Dickel, Christopher Groves, Armin Grunwald, Ben Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, George Khushf, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Arie Rip, Martin Sand, and Christina Schües. "Future Conversations – A Topical Exchange." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Alfred Nordmann. "Technology in the Imagination of Society – A Conversation." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Scherer, F.M. "Chapter 13: Economists' analyses of technological change." Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation. Ed. Cristiano Antonelli. Elgar, 2022, 115-119.
Linos, Elizabeth. "When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact “At Scale”." Behavioral Science in the Wild. Ed. Nina Mažar and Dilip Soman. University of Toronto Press, 2022, 20-28.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Stephen Hilgartner. "A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19." Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ed. Joelle Grogan, and Alice Donald. Routledge, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies." An Inclusive Future? Technology, New Dynamics, And Policy Challenges. Ed. Zia Qureshi. Brookings Institute, May 2022, 65-82.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Abhishek Bhatia, and Sam Peisch. "Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures." Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
Nyarko, Julian, Sharad Goel, and Roseanna Sommers. "Breaking Taboos in Fair Machine Learning: An Experimental Study." EAAMO '21: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups’ Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." Innovative Technology at the Interface of Finance and Operations. Ed. Volodymyr Babich, John R. Birge, and Gilles Hilary. Springer, 11 May 2021, 271-296.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups’ Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." Innovative Technology at the Interface of Finance and Operations. Ed. Volodymyr Babich, John R. Birge, and Hilary Gilles. Springer, Cham, 2022, 271-296.
Goel, Sharad, Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Skeem, and Christopher Slobogin. "The accuracy, equity, and jurisprudence of criminal risk assessment." Research handbook on Big Data Law. Ed. Roland Vogl. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 9-28.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Practices of Objectivity in Regulatory Science." Social Knowledge in the Making. Ed. Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont. University of Chicago Press, 2021, 307-338.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Imagined Worlds: The Politics of Future-Making in the 21st Century." The Politics and Science of Prevision: Governing and Probing the Future. Ed. Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, and Myriam Dunn Cavelty. Routledge, 2020.
Carter, Ashton B. "The Tenth Annual Ernest May Memorial Lecture: Shaping Disruptive Technological Change for Public Good." Technology and National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Rosenbach, Eric, and Katherine Mansted. "Can Democracy Survive the Information Age?" Technology and National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Nye, Joseph S. Jr., Condoleezza Rice, and Nicholas Burns. "Introduction." Technology and National Security: Maintaining America's Edge. Aspen Strategy Group, 2019.
Eaves, David, Ben McGuire, and Audrey Carson. "Open Data in North America, Australia and New Zealand." The State of Open Data. Ed. Tim, Davies, and, Stephen, Walker,. International Research and Development Council, 2019.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Craig Campbell. "The Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics: Institutionalizing Analytical Excellence." Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate. Ed. André Correa d’Almeida. Columbia University Press, 2018.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "How the User Experience (UX) Can Build Trust in Local Government." Urban Policy 2018. Manhattan Institute, 2018.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Michael Hendrix. "Unclogging the Permit Pipeline." Urban Policy 2018. Manhattan Institute, 2018.
Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, and Sheila Jasanoff. "Traveling Imaginaries: The ‘Practice Turn’ in Innovation Policy and the Global Circulation of Innovation Models." The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science. Ed. David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, and Charles Thorpe. Routledge, 2017.
Branscomb, Lewis M. "Helping the President Manage the Federal Science and Technology Enterprise." Science Advice to the President. Ed. William T. Golden. Routledge, 2017, 169-176.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Data Engagement Leads to Innovative Solutions." America, the Owner’s Manual: Making Government Work for You. Ed. Bob Graham and Chris Hand. SAGE - CQ Press, 2017.
Juma, Calestous, and John Mugabe. "Public Policy and New Generic Technologies: The Case of Biotechnology." New Generic Technologies in Developing Countries. Ed. Bhagavan, Malur Ramanna. Springer, 2016, 115-139.
MacMartin, D. G., B. Kravitz, and David W. Keith. "Geoengineering: The World's Largest Control Problem." American Control Conference (ACC), 2014. IEEE, June 2014, 2401 - 2406.
Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat: Accounting for Targeted Performance." The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability. Ed. Bovens, Mark, Robert E. Goodin, and Thomas Schillemans. Oxford University Press, 2014, 456-471.
Juma, Calestous, and David Spielman. "Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Sources of Agricultural Innovation in Africa." New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture. Ed. Peter B. R. Hazell and Atiqur Rahman. Oxford University Press, March 2014.
Juma, Calestous. "Technology and the Reinvention of Education in Africa." Technology in Africa—2014 Digest. Ed. Tefo Mohapi. iafrikan.com, February 2014.
Juma, Calestous, and Katherine Gordon. "Transgenic Crops and Food Security." Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects. Ed. Ricroch, A., Surinder Chopra and Shelby Fleischer. Springer, 2014.
Juma, Calestous, and Pedro Conceição, and Sebastian Levine. "Biotechnology and Food Security." Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Ed. Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle. Edward Elgar, 2014.
Diaz Anadon, Laura. "Energy from Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology Innovation." Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2013 Symposium. Ed. U.S. National Academy of Engineering. National Academies Press, 2014.
Diaz Anadon, and Laura, G. Nemet. "The US Synthetic Fuels Corporation: Policy Consistency, Flexibility and the Long-term Consequences of Perceived Failures." Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures. Ed. Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Kempener, R., L. D. Anadon, K. S. Gallagher and K. Jiang. "Energy RD&D Investments in the Major Emerging Economies and the United States." Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures. Ed. Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Juma, Calestous. "Growing the Nutritional Revolution." Nestlé Foundation Report 2013. Nestlé Foundation, 2013, 34-36.
Gruebler, A., Laura Diaz Anadon, Kelly Sims Gallagher, R. Kempener, Anastasia O’Rourke, and Charlie Wilson. "Global R&D, Market Formation, and Diffusion Investments in Energy Technology Innovation." Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Success and Failure. Ed. Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson. Cambridge University Press, December 2013, 292-308.
Grübler, Arnulf, Francisco Aguayo, Kelly Gallagher, Marko Hekkert, Kejun Jiang, Lynn Mytelka, Lena Neij, Gregory Nemet, Charlie Wilson, Per Dannemand Andersen, Leon Clarke, Laura Diaz Anadon, Sabine Fuss, Jakob Martin, Daniel Kammen, Ruud Kempener, Osamu Kimura, Bernadett Kiss, Anastasia O'Rourke, Robert N Shock, and Paulo Teixeirade Sousa. "Policies for the Energy Technology Innovation System (ETIS)." Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future. Cambridge University Press and International Institute for Applied System Analysis, 2012, 1665-1744.
Juma, Calestous. "Introduction." The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa. Ed. Calestous Juma. Oxford University Press, 2011, xiii-xxvi.
Juma, Calestous. "Governing Innovation." The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa. Ed. Calestous Juma. Oxford University Press, 2010, 166-203.
Juma, Calestous. "The Growing Economy." The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa. Ed. Calestous Juma. Oxford University Press, 2010, 1-22.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Thin Air." Débordements: Mélanges offerts à Michel Callon. Ed. Madeleine Akrich, Yannick Barthe, Fabian Muniesa, and Philippe Mustar. Presses des Mines, 2010, 191-202.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "A Social Contract for the Life Sciences: The US Case." Trattato di Biodiritto. Ed. Stefano Rodotà and Mariachiara Tallacchini. Giuffrè, 2010, 103-121.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "An STS Scholar Reflects on Philosophy." Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions. Ed. Robert Rosenberger. Automatic Press / VIP, 2010, 109-127.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "A Field of Its Own: The Emergence of Science and Technology Studies." Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Ed. Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, and Carl Mitcham. Oxford University Press, 2010, 191-205.
Anadon, Laura Diaz, and John P. Holdren. "Policy for Energy Technology Innovation." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 89-127.
Gross, Ralph, Latanya Sweeney, Jeffrey Cohn, Fernando de la Torre, and Simon Baker. "Face De-Identification." Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance. Ed. Andrew Senior. Springer, 2009.
Cunningham, Edward. "A Tale of Two Sectors: Diverging Paths in Taiwan’s Automotive Industry." Global Taiwan: Building competitive strengths in a new international economy. Ed. Suzanne Berger and Richard Lester. M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
Sweeney, Latanya. "Information Explosion." Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Data Access: Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies. Ed. Pat Doyle, Julia Lane, J.M. Theeuwes, and Laura Zayatz. Elsevier Science, 2001.