Tag: Taubman Center for State and Local Government

  • Nation & World

    Paving the way for self-driving cars

    Two efforts at Harvard are helping state and city officials in Boston and around the nation frame their early policy thinking around autonomous vehicles.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Renewing urban renewal

    Edward Glaeser, an economics, government, and public policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School, and Jerold Kayden, an urban planning and design professor at the Graduate School of Design, discuss findings from a new Brookings Institution study on the rise of innovation districts across the nation.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Triumph in the City” – Edward Glaeser

    Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Labor’s love lost

    As anti-union sentiment sweeps state governments around the country, recent success stories in Massachusetts could hold the keys to improving public unions’ image, local leaders said at Harvard Kennedy School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools

    As part of a student-initiated community development project to promote civic engagement and rural development in the Mississippi Delta, nine Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students will spend 10 days in January in Greenwood, Miss. working on service projects for the community.

    1 minute