Five Questions
Quick-hit interviews with Harvard thinkers, doers, and leaders, offering candid views on their work, ideas, and inspirations.
Are ‘Little Red Dots’ Keys to Understanding the Early Universe?
Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Fabio Pacucci explains one of cosmology’s newest mysteries.
Five Questions with Tien Jiang
How brushing and flossing can protect your heart
Five Questions with Nancy Gibbs and Thomas E. Patterson
The Washington Post laid off more than a third of its journalists. Does this signal a new era for newsrooms?
Five Questions with Matthew Bunn
The last treaty limiting nuclear arms buildup between Russia and the U.S. expires February 5. What’s next?
Five Questions with Dick Friedman
Harvard Magazine’s longstanding football editor reflects on his career in journalism.
Five Questions with Willy Shih
A Harvard Business School professor unpacks the economics of semiconductors.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
Five Questions with David Yoffie
David Yoffie has spent decades at Harvard studying how tech reshapes business strategy and competition, from semiconductors to AI.
Five Questions with Andrew Knoll
A paleontologist on how to understand Earth’s biggest extinction event
Five Questions with Javier Ortega-Hernández
A professor of evolutionary biology on what shaped life more than 500 million years ago
Five Questions with Peter R. Girguis
A Harvard professor of evolutionary biology on what lurks in the deep sea