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.
How to Adapt to Climate Change
Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
“A Grinding War”
A former ambassador to Ukraine offers her perspective on the conflict
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