Research & Ideas

Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.

A man in a suit waves while smiling, with greenery in the background.

Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

by Jonathan Shaw

Diana Sorensen, dean of arts and humanities

How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new reports

How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports

Harvard-MIT edX adds 15 partner institutions in global expansion

The Harvard-MIT online-learning venture undertakes a major global expansion

Gerald C. Chertavian, Mary L. Fifield, Gregory Bialecki, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter speak at a Competitiveness Project panel discussion.

Harvard Business School Conference on U.S. Competitiveness

Firms are profitable, but the nation’s living standards aren't rising.

Harvard Horizons doctoral students' ideas that may reshape their disciplines

A new program recognizes eight doctoral students whose ideas, innovations, and insights could change their fields.

From left: Claudine Gay, Jennifer Hoffman, and Michael Kremer

Harvard faculty chosen Radcliffe Institute fellows

Fifteen Harvard faculty members chosen.

Harvard faculty national academy of sciences 2013

Eight professors honored

Image courtesy of Harvard Imaging Services and the Harvard-Yenching Library

Japanese falconry preserved by note-taking

An item in the history of note-taking

by Christopher Reed

An image from the cover of a book about AIDS treatment in Africa, edited by faculty members Phyllis Kanki and Richard Marlink, who spoke at the "PEPFAR in Africa" conference held at Harvard School of Public Health on January 10.

Fighting AIDS with Harvard's PEPFAR programs in Bostwana, Tanzania, and Nigeria

A symposium at Harvard School of Public Health reflects on the school's PEPFAR-funded programs in Tanzania, Botswana, and Nigeria.

HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses

New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece

This disortion-free flat lens, less than a millimeter across, uses antennae etched from a layer of gold, rather than glass, to focus laser light.

Lightweight, distortion-free flat lens uses antennae, not glass, to focus light

Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.

by Jonathan Shaw