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Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
Crowdsourcing solutions
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Tax Collection and Civil Society
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
Evolution unleashed
David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.
Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard
Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.
Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture
New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.
What leads executives to break the law?
Business leaders explain how they went astray.
Printing wires in three dimensions
A new kind of 3-D printer forms wires in midair.
Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”
Sociologist Anthony Jack studies two types of low-income students.
Why is exercise hard?
Evolution shaped humans to rest—and to run only when absolutely necessary.
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, says Gareth Olds of Harvard Business School
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.