The reasons for this include Trump and Biden’s personalities, the rise of populist MAGA and progressive factions, plus ...

Three years since Harvard introduced double concentrations, the number of students pursuing them has nearly doubled.

When Kim B. Clark joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1978, he couldn’t have imagined that nearly two decades later he would lead the institution through one of its most transformative ...

Harvard University's PhD admission cuts, driven by a $350 million budget shortfall, will significantly impact undergraduate ...

In 2024, according to the National Science Foundation, 34.2% of newly minted economics Ph.D.s – about 1 in 3 – in the U.S.

A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, ...

It’s been a rocky week for public intellectual Larry Summers. On Tuesday, the 70-year-old Harvard economics professor gave an awkward announcement to his class of college students acknowledging his ...

Getting into Harvard is incredibly difficult. Getting an “A” in class once you’re there, on the other hand, is apparently so easy that an “A-” might as well be an “F.” For decades, Harvard ...

Oct 31, 2025, 7:52am EDT Updated: Oct 31, 2025, 9:56am EDT Moshe Zusman Photography Studio Penny Pritzker, a former U.S. secretary of commerce and 1981 Harvard graduate. From the Boston Business ...

In her new book, author and PhD student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman looks at how both gender and race cost Black women — and how policy can help address those costs. Earlier this summer, economist Katica ...

Jessica Chastain is hitting the books in Cambridge. Variety reported on Wednesday that the Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actress has enrolled in the Master in Public Administration program at ...