Faculty & Research

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

Isaac Kohlberg to Step Down as Head of Harvard Technology Development

Partnerships and licensing office could become more critical as funding cuts loom

by Jonathan Shaw

What Makes Teams Tick

A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.

by Zara Zhang

Why Sex Succeeds

Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.

by Erin O'Donnell

The Plant Prospectors

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

Does Money Matter?

How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics

by Idrees Kahloon

Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA

Feng Zhang ’04 and his team build on previous discoveries in editing DNA.

by Aidan Langston

Centennial Medalists 2016

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.

Narrowing School Achievement Gaps

The Harvard Graduate School of Education launches “By All Means” initiative.

by Aidan Langston

The Changing Consensus on Healthcare Cost-Sharing

Economists question whether price transparency can reduce healthcare spending. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

How America Grew

Definitive economic history—and a debatable, despairing forecast

by Shane Greenstein

Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy

Political scientists demystify unseen institutional tensions.