Though used frequently in machine learning, boosted decision trees are largely unused in political science, despite many useful properties…
Compared with China’s dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood. Over the past…
We examine how boards of directors enable social enterprises to sustain their attention on social and commercial goals. Drawing on a…
Municipal solid waste generation is a rapidly increasing challenge that is leading to severe pollution and environmental degradation in…
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities,…
We consider four distinct policy levers available to states for raising bachelor’s degree completion rates in the U.S. through their public…
The Soul of a Startup. Ranjay Gulati, July/August 2019, Paper, "There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul.…
July 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Robert Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard…
Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Economic Growth. James Stock, July 1, 2019, Paper, "The topics of climate change and climate change…
Real Credit Cycles. Andrei Shleifer, July 2019, Paper, "Recent empirical work has revived the Minsky hypothesis of boom-bust credit cycles…