Faculty
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Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
Joanna Aizenberg
A bioengineer learns from sponges...
The Seductions of Snooping
Historian of science Kristie Macrakis's book on spying techniques used by communist East Germany's secret police.
Raiders Rehabilitated
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and coauthors offer a revisionist view of corporate raiders and their Gordon Gekko image after reviewing 5,000 buyouts...
by Josh Lerner
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...
Your Money, or Your Life?
The promise of a more fulfilling approach to personal finance: George Kinder, author of Seven Stages of Money Maturity, explains how financial planning is an emotional process...
Feldstein: Why the Government Should Help Homeowners
On the opinion page of yesterday's Washington Post, Feldstein (Baker professor of economics, who soon ends his term as...
Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack...
Islam in the United States, from 1492 to 2008
A recent episode of the Here & Now interview show on WBUR, a Boston-based National Public Radio affiliate, features Jocelyne Cesari, director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program...
Update: Chemistry Professor Wins Prize for Imaging Techniques
Professor of chemistry and chemical biology X. Sunney Xie, whose work is detailed in the cover story of our current issue, has won the Berthold Leibinger Research Prize for laser technology...
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.