Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ for the Return of Low Interest Rates
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses the global forces driving up borrowing costs.
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
To the Rescue
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
by James Engell
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury