Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Donahue, John D., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Learn a Lesson in Collaboration from Green Bay's 'Cheeseheads'." CNN.com, February 05, 2011.
Donahue, John D. and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times. Princeton University Press, 2011.
Aldy, Joseph. "An Economist’s View of the Oil Spill from Inside the White House." Resources Magazine. 2011.
Leonard, Herman B., and Arnold Howitt. "Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009." Australian Journal of Public Administration 69.4 (December 2010): 372-386.
Howitt, Arnold, and Herman B. Leonard. "The Strategic Balance of Disaster Risk Management." Administration Reform 16.8 (2010): 27-29.
Behn, Robert. "The Consistency Conundrum: From Requirements and Templates to Expectations and Adaptations." Public Administration Review 70.6 (December 2010, Issue Supplement): s218-s219.
Howitt, Arnold, and Herman B. Leonard. "Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies." Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery. Ed. Simon Woodward. Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010, 45-58.
Howitt, Arnold, and Herman B. Leonard. "Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents”." Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery. Ed. Simon Woodward. Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010, 13-26.
Behn, Robert. "Creating PerformanceStat's Organizational Competence and Commitment." Paper for the Thirty Second Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, November 3, 2010.
Behn, Robert. "Collaborating for Performance: Or Can There Exist Such a Thing at CollaborationStat?" International Public Management Journal 13.4 (October 2010): 429 - 470.
Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership." Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Ed. Richard A. Couto. Sage, 2010, 12-23.
Heifetz, Ronald A. "Leadership and Values." Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Ed. Richard A. Couto. Sage, 2010, 24-27.
Kellerman, Barbara, ed. Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority and Influence. McGraw Hill, 2010.
González, Celia Maria. "Managing Employee Concerns Through Procedural Fairness." Paper presented at the 13th International Society for Justice Research Conference, Banff, August 21-24, 2010.
Donahue, John D. "Crisis and Innovation: Let the Bad Times Roll." Governing, June 30, 2010.
Kellerman, Barbara. "Don’t Drink Yet to New ‘Year of the Woman’." Bloomberg, June 10, 2010.
Pittinsky, Todd L. "Softening Silos: The Nuts and Bolts of Leading Amid Difference." Leader to Leader 2010.57 (Summer 2010): 18-23.
Pittinsky, Todd L. "A Two-Dimensional Model of Intergroup Leadership." American Psychologist 65.3 (April 2010): 194-200.
Sellman, W. S., Dana H. Born, W. J. Strickland, and J. J. Ross. "Selection and Classification in the U.S. Military." Handbook of Personnel Selection. Routledge, April 2010, 679-704.
Andrews, Matthew, Jesse McConnell, and Alison Wescott. "Development as Leadership-led Change." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-009, March 2010.
Goldsmith, Stephen, with Tim Burke and Gigi Georges. The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good. John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
Behn, Robert. "Closing the Knowledge-Practice Gap." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. December 2009.
Behn, Robert. Performance Leadership: Eleven Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Nonprofit and Public Leadership. Ed. James L. Perry. Jossey-Bass, 2009, 13.
Howitt, Arnold, and Herman B. Leonard. Acting in Time Against Disasters: A Comprehensive Risk Management Framework. Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response. Ed. Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem. Wharton School Publishing, 2009.
Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat as a Search for Strategic Evidence." Paper presented at the National
Public Management Research Conference, Columbus, and the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., October 1-3 and November 6, 2009.
Gergen, David. "The National Deficit--of Leadership." U.S. News and World Report. November 1, 2009, 29.
Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy." Bob Behn’s Performance Leadership Report. November 2009.
Behn, Robert. "Simple Strategies Drive Out the Subtle." Bob Behn's Performance Leadership Report. October 2009.
Behn, Robert. "Ratcheting Up Performance." Bob Behn's Performance Leadership Report. September 2009.
González, Celia Maria and Tom R. Tyler. Procedural Justice. Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Ed. David Sander and Klaus Scherer. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Heifetz, Ronald A., Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky. "Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis." Harvard Business Review. July/August 2009.
Behn, Robert. "Leadership is a "Generative" Activity." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. July 2009.
Andrews, Matthew. Review of The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, by Donald P. Moynihan. Governance, 22.3, July 2009: 513-515.
Behn, Robert. "That's Funny." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. June 2009.
Branscomb, Lewis M. "A Focused Approach to Society's Grand Challenges." Issues in Science and Technology 25.4 (Summer 2009): 61-66.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Investing in the People Who Make Government Work." Federal Manager. Summer 2009.
Pritchett, Lant. "Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-013, May 2009.
Andrews, Matthew. "Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-012, May 2009.
Holdren, John P. "Science in the White House." Science 324.5927 (May 2009): 567.
Behn, Robert. "Recognizing Novelty." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. May 2009.
Heifetz, Ronald A., Marty Linsky, and Alexander Grashow. The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
Goldsmith, Stephen. Foreword. The Innovator's Playbook. Ed. William Eggers and Shalabh Singh. The Ash Institute and Deloitte Research, 2009.
Kelman, Steven, and Jeff Myers. "Successfully Executing Ambitious Strategies in Government: An Empirical Analysis." vlog Faculty Research Working Papers RWP09-009, April 2009.
Behn, Robert. "Sometimes Weird Works." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. April 2009.
Bilmes, Linda J., and W. Scott Gould. The People Factor: Strengthening America By Investing in Public Service. Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
Ganz, Marshall. "Why Stories Matter." Sojourners Magazine. March 2009.
Behn, Robert. "The Data Don't Speak for Themselves." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. March 2009.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Briefing on Innovation and Service Delivery." Cabinet Secretary of the United Kingdom, March 2009.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Obama's Ethics Agenda: The Challenge of Coordinated Change." Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 7.1 (March 2009).
Leonard, Herman B., and Jerry T. Williams. "The Forest Service and Transitional Fires." Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies. Ed. Arnold Howitt and Herman B. Leonard. CQ Press, 2009, 413-420.