Our Working Papers offer a variety of perspectives on defining, categorizing, and evaluating issues related to corporate responsibility. The Working Paper series includes the work of CRI faculty, ...

For a century, the geopolitics of energy has been synonymous with the geopolitics of oil and gas. However, geopolitics and the global energy economy are both changing. The international order ...

Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023), Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2012-2021), and Chief of the Division of ...

The paper reviews an event of 30 years ago from the perspective of today: a successful G-5 initiative to reverse what had been a dangerously overvalued dollar. The “Plaza Accord” is best viewed not as ...

To mark the arrival of the 21st century, in 1999 the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine offered an Olympian preview of the decades ahead. The Academy foresaw a world in which ...

Each February, the United States celebrates Black History Month and honors the innumerable achievements, contributions, and the history of African Americans. Below, the Carr Center's Racial Justice ...

“How the Word is Passed is Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an ...

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a ...

From March 14–21, 2026, the Social Innovation + Change Initiative (SICI) and Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship will convene an ...

In this article, we focus on recent advancements in Generative AI, and especially in Large Language Models (LLMs). We first present a framework that allows understanding the core characteristics of ...