Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
Stevengraphs: Woven Silk Portraits from Coventry to Harvard
Five strange trading “cards”
Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Then and Now
Students adapt the operettas to changing times.
Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory
Ecological Edges: Darren Sears’s Watercolor Landscapes
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
How Does the Brain Interpret Language in Real-Time?
New research on how the brain uses sounds to form words and create meaning.
25 Years of the Radcliffe Institute
A “messy experiment” in creative, interdisciplinary research
Ending Surveillance Capitalism
Four women leading change in the world of privacy and personal data
Toward Reconciliation
Bereaved Palestinian and Israeli mothers visit Harvard.
How Do Movies Use Music?
Producer Robert Kraft discusses cinematic audio.