Is a smiling flight attendant performing emotional labor? How about the harried mom baking cupcakes for a kindergarten class, or your friend who’s always ready to listen and dispense advice?…
Accomplished professional women who were once serious athletes discussed the lessons of sports in the HBS forum “Sports as a Classroom: Women in Sports, Leadership and Empowerment.”
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online, according to a member of the Youth and Media team of researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society,
Michael Fabiano wears many hats. Here, he talks about the need for continuing education in our ever-changing media environment, as well as the AP’s strategy vis-à-vis “fake news.”
Outgoing Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility chair Howell Jackson, the James S. Reid Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, says changing the panel’s focus to developing guidelines can help inform Harvard’s external investment managers, and other interested investors, as they vote on a broad array of shareholder resolutions.
An inverted bond yield curve often has been a harbinger of recession, though the odds of one are still only 1 in 3 for this year, Harvard analyst says.
Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based institute of social scientists and policy analysts, looked at a range of social programs to determine which provided the most bang for the government buck, and spending on children came out on top — particularly in the case of disadvantaged kids.
Harvard students Luke Heine and Raphael Rouvinov built a new student travel meet up program, Summer Playbook, to help college students connect with each other all over the world. The app has drawn seed money from Silicon Valley.
A new book by Georgia professor and new Extension School grad student looks at how African American culture bred business success, and the lessons that this offers today.
Harvard’s Zittrain speaks at a Palo Alto silicon valley event, describing the University’s role in founding and research vis à vis technological advances – and ethical issues – in the world of computers and the proliferation of tech start-ups.
Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard, major political adviser, and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, died Tuesday at age 79.
Former New York City mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg invokes integrity in the service of country and capitalism during Class Day at Harvard’s 368th Commencement.
The student-run Harvard Sports Analysis Collective is getting notice in the press and among fans for its empirical analyses of sports questions big and small.
Harvard Law School students who want careers in entertainment get to do hands-on legal counseling through the Entertainment Law Clinic and the Recording Artists Project.
Harvard researchers get advice from big fish on how to make their projects a biotech reality at the Guppy Tank event sponsored by Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and LabCentral in Cambridge.
Documentary Night in Klarman Hall kicked off with a panel discussion on a clip from “Bending the Arc,” a film about Partners In Health, the NGO founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School students Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim and social justice and health-care advocate Ophelia Dahl.
In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society can fight back.
Stephanie Huckel, senior global program manager of diversity and inclusion at IGT, offered insight and advice during a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogue titled “Achieving Greater Workplace Equity for LGBTQ Employees.”
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D.Mass.) brought his crusade for “moral capitalism” to Harvard, arguing that the recent government shutdown represents capitalism at its least moral.
Coca-Cola worked through the Chinese branch of a U.S.-based nonprofit to influence anti-obesity measures in China, according to new research by Harvard Professor Susan Greenhalgh.
The International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist, Harvard’s John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics Gita Gopinath, reflects on the tough tasks ahead.
The last global financial crisis was just beginning when Niall Ferguson published his seminal book “The Ascent of Money” in 2008. He came to the Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday to warn that history could repeat itself.
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