Event

2024 Feb 01

Development Talk: How Can Wall Street Avoid Funding Dictators?

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

HYBRID Democracy Lab, HKS / Zoom

The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Marcos Buscaglia, Economist, Former Wall Street Analyst and Emerging Markets Expert

Moderator: Javier Murcio, Director, Emerging Markets; Portfolio Manager and...

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2023 Nov 29

Research Seminar: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States, with E. Rossi-Hansberg

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Adrien Bilal - Harvard University

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2023 Nov 15

Webinar: Why is South Africa Not Achieving Its Goals?

10:30am to 11:30am

Location: 

Zoom (registration information below)

The Growth Lab recently completed a two-year applied research project which diagnosed causes of South Africa’s economic challenges and and outlined a path forward. The project was a research collaboration centered with South Africa’s National Treasury and in coordination with the Centre for Development and Enterprise.

Speakers:
Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Center for Development and...

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2023 Nov 06

Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU Policy

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

HYBRID W434 A.B., HKS / Zoom

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute)

In this hybrid seminar, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission, EU member states, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to...

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2023 Nov 01

Research Seminar: New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: William B. Bonvillian, Lecturer at MIT, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning

Despite longstanding opposition from mainstream economists and neoliberal perspectives to industrial policy, the United States, confronted by advanced technology competition from China, climate change, and a global pandemic, adopted from...

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2023 Oct 30

Development Talk: Building Inclusive Cities

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

HYBRID W434 A.B., HKS / Zoom

The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Carel Kleynhans, CEO of Divercity Property Group

Moderator: LaChaun Banks, Ash Center Director for Equity and Inclusion

Divercity Property...

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2023 Oct 24

Navigating Crisis and Leading Change in Moldova with Former Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

HYBRID T520, Allison Dining Room, HKS / Zoom

The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Natalia Gavrilita, Former Prime Minister of Moldova

Moderator: Karen Donfried, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...

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2023 Oct 23

The Wild, Wild West: What Can We Learn From The Cowboy State?

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

JFK Jr. Forum / YouTube

The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyoming)

Governor Gordon serves as the current chair of the Western Governors’ Association, which includes 19 western states and three U.S....

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2023 Oct 11

Research Seminar: Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

In this hybrid seminar, Santiago Caicedo, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents.

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2023 Oct 04

Research Seminar: Money, Time, and Grant Design

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)

The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School

Abstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for...

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2023 Sep 27

Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Zoom (registration information below)

The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speakers:
Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.
Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering...

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2023 Sep 20

Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

Online Only

The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

This session is online only. Please register in advance. 

In this seminar, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-...

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2023 Sep 21

Get to Know the Growth Lab: Research and Student Engagement Showcase

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Malkin Penthouse / Littauer Building

Learn more about the Growth Lab's mission and approach, our academic research and policy engagements, and student opportunities. You'll hear directly from the Growth Lab's senior leadership, fellows, and staff.

Speakers include:
Ricardo Hausmann - Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, HKS

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2023 Sep 13

Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces

10:00am to 11:15am

Location: 

Online Only

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Register for the session.

In this Research Seminar, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019....

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