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  • The NBA-HBS career connection

    When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.

    Photos by Kwame Owusu-Kesse/K.KESS Photography

  • Try hard, find God, get rich

    The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian belief that that links faith, positive thinking, and material wealth, is finding a foothold in American politics with the rise of President Trump, according to panelists at a Kennedy School forum.

  • Golden age for team players

    Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.

  • Scholars home in on U.S. inequality

    A new Harvard initiative focused on inequality in the U.S. includes a postdoctoral fellowship to begin in the 2018-19 academic year.

  • Want to do well? Then do good

    Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.

    “Entrepreneurship is a tool for providing something beneficial to society," Steven Rogers, M.B.A. '85, told his Ed Portal audience.

  • Political failure through a business lens

    A new report from Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter and co-author Katherine Gehl looks at the country’s dysfunctional political system through the lens of business competition to find practical, effective ways to improve how politics serves what should be its most important customers: average voters.

    Harvard University Business School professor, Michael Porter and co-author Katherine Gehl, (left)

  • On internet privacy, be very afraid

    Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.

  • Finance meets humanities — really

    Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.

  • Teaching Uber instead of HBS students

    Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei takes leave from classroom to reform the workplace culture at Uber.

  • Black leadership, front and center

    Harvard Business School course focuses on case studies of black business leaders and their challenges.

  • The internal marriage tax of women M.B.A.s

    Study says that female M.B.A. students may downplay their career ambitions if they sense doing otherwise will harm their marriage prospects.

  • For retail, the revolution is televised

    For retail, the revolution is being televised, or at least delivered through online screens.

  • A closer look at the post-election stock rally

    A new Kennedy School paper looks at early investor reaction to Donald Trump’s presidency.

  • Giving women the edge

    Women’s Entrepreneurship Day brought powerful business minds to campus.

  • Taking the stigma out of poverty

    A two-day workshop will examine how poverty leads to social exclusion, and how to reduce it.

  • Doing his job

    Bill Belichick’s endlessly efficient management style holds lessons for business

    Patriots coach Bill Belichick wears headset on the sidelines during the first half of NFL Super Bowl XLIX.

  • ‘I had this extraordinary sense of liberation’

    Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.