“Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case” has won the 2020 Harvard Business Review (HBR) McKinsey Award, which honors the best HBR article of the year. The article, by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Ely and Morehouse College President David A. Thomas, critiques the off-cited economic case for diversity and argues that contrary…

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School awarded the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to “Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System” by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liu of The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and the USA TODAY Network. The project investigated why…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans’ opinions on a variety of health and social issues have shifted, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. An analysis of 18 polls conducted during 2020 found that confidence in U.S. health care increased during the pandemic. In 2019, only 36 percent of survey…

The board of directors of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced the program’s 2021 Fellows, including a dozen with Harvard connections. Chosen from a pool of 2,445 applicants — the most the program has ever received — the 30 fellows will each receive…

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian will host several NASA Hubble Fellows beginning in the fall of 2021. This year, more than 400 applicants applied to the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP); 24 awardees were ultimately selected, three of whom will soon conduct research at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The NHFP…

Ellen Price, a doctoral student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation. Price is one of only eight students in the nation to receive this prestigious award. The fellowship will provide up to $375,000 in support for Price to conduct independent…

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator, former presidential candidate, and longtime Harvard Law School professor, will be this year’s speaker for the Class Day ceremonies at Harvard Law School, the class of 2021 class marshals announced today. Class Day, which will take place on Wednesday, May 26, will be virtual this year because of the ongoing pandemic.…

Isabel Gibney ’20 was recently named a winner in the 38th annual Illustrators of the Future Contest and will be published in the international bestselling anthology, “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 37.” Health and safety measures permitting, Gibney will travel to Hollywood this fall to attend a weeklong workshop and the awards…

This week, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Center for African Studies, announced the inaugural awardees of the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa. This fund, supported by the Motsepe Foundation, will significantly strengthen the University’s relationship with…

Registration is now open for the conference Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures, presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. This four-part program explores efforts by…

The Harvard Innovation Labs today announced two new additions to the University innovation center’s leadership team: Rebecca Xiong, managing director of programs and engagement, and Meagan Hall, senior director of administration. “Over the last decade, the Harvard Innovation Labs evolved from a university-wide experiment for bringing together Harvard’s community of innovators and entrepreneurs, to a…

The Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs and their faculty chair, David Scharfstein, the School’s Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, have announced three recipients of the 2020-2021 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and one winner of the Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics. The prizes are presented each year based…

Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce Harvard Design Press, a book-publishing imprint based at Harvard GSD and distributed in collaboration with Harvard University Press. Harvard Design Press challenges, broadens, and advances the design disciplines and advocates for the value and power of design in making a more resilient, just, and beautiful world.…

As lawmakers address the role of social media platforms in fueling the sort of extremism that led to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government and the Digital Platforms and Democracy Project at HKS and NYU’s Stern School of Business have joined forces with other experts to make a series…

Just because a particular health care service is considered not cost effective doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be used, according to a recent article co-authored by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Ankur Pandya. In a March 10, 2021, article in JAMA Health Forum, Pandya, associate professor of health decision science, and his co-authors suggested…

Dell Marie Hamilton has been named a recipient of the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) recently announced. Hamilton is the image and publications rights coordinator at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She was among three artists to be recognized.  Marlon…

Combining healthy lifestyle habits, such as exercising, avoiding smoking, and eating healthy, can lead to positive changes in an individual’s cholesterol profile that are different but complementary to the effects of cholesterol-lowering medications, according to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Until now, no studies have compared the lipid-lowering effects of…

Workers around the world lack mechanisms to safely and confidentially advocate for change or voice concerns related to their work, safety, health and overall well-being. According to the World Health Organization, more than 50 percent of workers in many countries have no social protection and are subject to lax enforcement of occupational health and safety…

Silkroad, the nonprofit organization founded by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and home of the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble, has been awarded $3 million by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The largest gift in Silkroad’s 21-year history will support a four-year capacity-building effort to expand educational initiatives that are steeped in social justice and equity,…

Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., will be Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day Distinguished Speaker on Thursday, May 27, 2021, the School announced this week. The ceremony, which will be presented virtually on the same day as the broader Harvard University commencement and the conferring of HBS diplomas, will also…

Women who experienced high blood pressure during pregnancy had a higher risk of dying prematurely from heart disease, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by Jorge Chavarro, associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology, analyzed data on more than 88,000 women who participated in the…

Harvard Library, like all academic libraries in the U.S., typically takes its cataloging language cues from the Library of Congress. But it has now made one major exception — the phrase “illegal alien.” That subject heading disappeared permanently from Harvard’s collection descriptions in January, thanks to work by Change the Subject Task Force, a group…

On March 1, the Georgia House of Representatives passed H.B.531, a sweeping elections bill that critics and voting rights advocates were quick to note increases restrictions on absentee voting and curtails weekend early voting hours. Just two days later, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, legislation containing a broad range of democratic reforms, from…

Each year, the international NOMIS Foundation selects two notable academics as recipients of the NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award, and this year Harvard professor Catherine Dulac is one of the honorees. “This is terrific news, and more well-deserved recognition for the exciting and groundbreaking work that Catherine and her lab have been doing,” said Sean Eddy,  Ellmore…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni, each of whom partners with an HBS faculty member to bring their experience in business into the MBA program and the School. The fellows contribute to…

Researchers Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, and Eileen McNeely, of the Harvard Chan SHINE program, examine the roles that financial control and financial fragility play in well-being in a new paper published in the journal Social Indicators Research. Financial fragility is recognized as a substantial issue for individual well-being. Various estimates show that between 46 and…

Harvard Business School (HBS) and Odgers Berndtson, a world leader in recruiting and developing organizational leaders, today jointly announced a new collection for the school’s Baker Library, made up of interviews with the colleagues and family of former Genzyme Corporation Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President Henri A. Termeer, one of biotech’s early pioneers. The…