Roger B. Porter is IBM Professor of Business and Government. Joining the Kennedy School faculty in 1977, he has served for more than a…
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard is George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management at the Kennedy School and Eliot I. Snider and Family…
John Haigh is Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard…
Program OverviewCommon biases. Irrational investment behaviors. Decision-trap situations. In today’s complex and rapidly changing financial…
The article argues that leadership is not a person – it is a system. It is a system in which three parts are of equal importance: leaders,…
Governments often require that products carry warnings to inform people about risks. The warnings approach, as opposed to the command and…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) balances risks and benefits before approving pharmaceuticals. But powerful behavioral biases that…
This paper provides evidence that the personality traits of policy actors matter for policy outcomes in the context of two large-scale…
Extensive research exists linking leadership to organizational outcomes. In particular transformational leadership has received a great…