Harvard University's PhD admission cuts, driven by a $350 million budget shortfall, will significantly impact undergraduate ...

Harvard’s deep cuts to PhD admissions are on track to leave undergraduate courses short of teaching fellows within two years, ...

Larry Summers faces a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association after emails revealed his close relationship with convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Getting into Harvard is incredibly difficult. Getting an “A” in class once you’re there, on the other hand, is apparently so easy that an “A-” might as well be an “F.” For decades, Harvard ...

Oct 31, 2025, 7:52am EDT Updated: Oct 31, 2025, 9:56am EDT Moshe Zusman Photography Studio Penny Pritzker, a former U.S. secretary of commerce and 1981 Harvard graduate. From the Boston Business ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth” including the key principle of creative ...

In her new book, author and PhD student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman looks at how both gender and race cost Black women — and how policy can help address those costs. Earlier this summer, economist Katica ...

International students at Harvard University are scrambling to get their visas before the start of the fall semester in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some have run into last-minute roadblocks. Repha Uhuru ...

Jessica Chastain is hitting the books in Cambridge. Variety reported on Wednesday that the Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actress has enrolled in the Master in Public Administration program at ...

A persistent gender gap in the economics profession isn’t improving, and that has implications for corporate leaders who use economic information to make informed decisions. Experts say the lack of ...

It is a great honor and delight to deliver this year’s Feldstein Lecture. I was never one of Marty’s students—I was educated not at Harvard, but at Princeton and MIT. Yet Marty nonetheless had a ...