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MAY 8, 2025 |
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Harvard Kennedy School | | | |
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President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have seen him sign more than 140 executive orders. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images) | | |
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POLITICS |
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Assessing the first 100 days of the Trump administration |
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In the first 100 days of his second term as president, Donald Trump has issued executive orders and adopted policies with domestic and global consequences that could last decades, experts say. HKS scholars analyzed some of his most consequential policy actions—from DOGE to his approach to tariffs to his relationship with the media. Professor Archon Fung, a scholar of democratic governance, writes, “In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has made clear that the next few years will test Americans’ commitment to our democracy as it has not been tested in many decades.” And Professor Stephen Goldsmith, an expert on local government and innovation, writes, “As a Republican former mayor and prosecutor, I believe that the most consequential action of the Trump administration during its first 100 days relates to its expansive use of federal power.” Read more analysis and insights.
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What We're Hearing |
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“We don’t know how to agree to disagree anymore. But I think everyone in the room wants the nation we live in to thrive.” |
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Stacy, a Maryland voter who participated in the first Spotlight: Voices Across America event hosted by the Institute of Politics | | |
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Education, Training & Labor |
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How organizations can improve fairness in the workplace |
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Changing systems is more effective than trying to change individual behavior when it comes to workplace fairness. That’s what Professor Iris Bohnet and researcher Siri Chilazi MPP/MBA 2016 say their research shows. “Making work fair is not a program, it’s a way of doing things,” Bohnet says in a new episode of the HKS PolicyCast podcast. Bohnet and Chilazi recommend that leaders tackle issues related to fairness by working to thoroughly understand the issues in their organizations before implementing solutions, designing targeted interventions to address key moments in workflows where bias creeps in, and then implementing and testing solutions to ensure they are working as intended.
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Development & economic growth |
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Place-based policies can help rebuild the American economy |
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Economic development organizations are working on the ground to help rescue regions in distress, and scholars want to hear from them. At a recent convening at HKS, researchers learned how these organizations are using federal, state, and private funds to recover from economic shocks. Leaders from economic development institutions, municipal governments, community colleges, and the philanthropic world met to exchange best practices on increasing productivity within their regions. The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy’s Reimagining the Economy project organized the event, which included participants from Alabama, Arkansas, Central California, the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and western New York.
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DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMIC GROWTH |
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How AI is shaping the future of global development |
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How can artificial intelligence play a role in advancing development in emerging economies? That question was on the agenda last week at the Harvard Center for International Development’s annual flagship conference, the Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM). The event, co-hosted by the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, brought together experts from across the world to discuss how AI could be used in fields ranging from education to industrial policy. Participants stressed the importance of tailoring AI solutions to local contexts and to collaborating across sectors. “This is a moment in development, in the world, in academia, to reimagine what we can do,” said Professor Asim I. Khwaja, CID faculty director. “What I think is spectacular about AI is it can allow us to reimagine the world in a completely different way.”
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