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.
Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Harvard’s Global Health Delivery Intensive
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.