Graduate & Professional Schools

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

The Professor Who Quantified Democracy

Erica Chenoweth’s data shows how—and when—authoritarians fall.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Reality and Optimism at Harvard Business School

Speakers at the Harvard Business School Class Day ceremony referenced both the current economic turmoil and potential paths to prosperity and justice. [audio]

The 2010 Centennial Medalists

This year's honorands are Shakespeare scholar David Bevington, East European historian Stephen Fischer-Galati, economist Eric Maskin, and classical philologist Martha Nussbaum.

President of Mexico Is Kennedy School Commencement Speaker

Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, will deliver the 2010 graduation address.

Nitin Nohria Appointed Harvard Business School Dean

An appointment from within to lead management education

Architecture and Urbanism: Shanghai and Beyond

A panel discussion with Mohsen Mostafavi, Alex Krieger, Lin Wang, John C. Portman III, Wu Jiang, and Yu Kongjian

Point Woman for Consumer Protection

Law School professor and congressional adviser Elizabeth Warren promotes a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Faculty Diversity Developments

The annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity shows gains for women, slow progress elsewhere

Business School Dean Jay O. Light to Step Down

Light joined the HBS faculty in 1969 and has been dean since 2005.

Rethinking Public Education Leadership

Updated Harvard Graduate School of Education’s new doctoral program aims to transform K-12 schooling.