Graduate & Professional Schools

Updates and features from Harvard’s graduate schools, including Law, Business, Medicine, and others.

An image of a doctor writing set against a background of code, representing AI

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

Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School

U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik removed from IOP advisory committee

“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote. 

An aerial view (taken by a drone) of the south side of Harvard’s new science and engineering complex, in a perspective looking northwest toward the stadium

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex

A new center for engineering and applied sciences—finally

by Jonathan Shaw

Exhibit showing Harvard Management Company investment returns by asset class in fiscal year 2020

Harvard’s annual financial report

The pandemic—and prospects for the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

by John S. Rosenberg

A graph shows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has become gradually more diverse, but that the total size of the faculty has grown little for more than a decade.

Harvard FAS dean’s annual report

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report on the professoriate—and the challenges of making it more diverse

by John S. Rosenberg

News on the spring term, naming conventions for buildings and gifts, and racial

Updates on the spring term, naming conventions, and racial equity

by John S. Rosenberg

Formal portrait of the Board of Editors for volume 70 of the “Harvard Law Review” (1956-1957), photographed on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.

The third woman to make the “Harvard Law Review” looks back

An alumna looks back.

by Nancy Boxley Tepper

Portrait of Harvard Law School dean—and perfectionist—Ezra Thayer circa 1910, who found the school’s dire finances overwhelming.

Review of Kimball and Coquillette, “The Intellectual Sword,” by Lincoln Caplan

The making of the modern Harvard Law School

by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard coronavirus dashboard chart shows rising coronavirus cases, particularly among graduate students, in the week to November 16, 2020.

Harvard Business School Halts Hybrid Classes

Surging coronavirus cases force move to all-remote instruction.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Arts and Sciences Report Pandemic Hiring Finances

…prompting a different kind of Faculty of Arts and Sciences annual report.

by John S. Rosenberg

A file photograph of M.Des. program director and Noyes professor in architectural theory K. Michael Hays sitting with Design School dean Sarah Whiting

The Harvard Graduate School of Design Restructures Its Master's Curriculum

The GSD introduces changes meant to “rebalance” the master of design studies program.

by Lydialyle Gibson