Faculty

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

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

Labs, Size Large

The new Northwest Science Building at Harvard

Tarun Khanna

Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna seeks to integrate Western business models into emerging markets.

Stem-Cell Progress

Harvard researchers at the Stem Cell Institute achieve major breakthroughs.

Financial Crises, Faculty Views

Harvard faculty members gather to discuss economic problems on Wall Street and beyond.

What Makes the Human Mind?

Biological anthropologist Marc Hauser explores what he terms “humaniqueness”

World-Wide Web of Life

James Hanken of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and other scientists launch an ambitious project to chronicle all life on earth.

by Paul Gleason

The Financial Cost of Feeling

Psychologist and public-policy scholar Jennifer Lerner explores how emotions influence behavior and judgment.

A Durable Bubble

Mechanical engineering student Emilie Dressaire studies tiny bubbles that can last up to a year and replace fat droplets in ice cream.

by Paul Gleason

Perspectives on Saving Capitalism

Ideas from Harvard scholars and alumni include going local; regulating consumer credit; and getting over our aversion to centralized planning.

Bailout: Dividends No, Savings Bonds Yes

In two newspaper op-ed essays, faculty members critique aspects of the federal government's financial-rescue measures and emerging proposals for another economic-stimulus package...