Harvard Business School Announces 2025 Goldsmith Fellows

2 weeks 5 days ago
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2025 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sectors to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students for each of the two years of the MBA program.

Three Tips for a Happier Work Life

3 weeks 6 days ago
Want to be happier? Ditch pointless meetings, celebrate your progress, and think twice before chasing that corner office, advises Arthur C. Brooks in his book The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life.
Arthur Brooks

Know Your HBS Staff: Shawn Alston

4 weeks ago
What’s the path from giving away cars on talk shows to working at Harvard Business School? Ask Media Service’s Shawn Alston—we talked with him about working in television, what brought him to Boston, what he likes to do outside of work, and more.
Shona Simkin

The MBA Section Experience: Connections and Camaraderie

4 weeks ago
Upon embarking on their two-year MBA journey at Harvard Business School (HBS), students are divided into “sections”—an approximately 90-student cohort that completes the Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, together. Although designed for the classroom, the section experience quickly turns into something more. It becomes a shared journey—filled with moments, big and small—where classmates become teammates, advocates, and friends.
Patricia Blumeris (MBA 2025), Jordan Thomas (MBA 2025) & James Bedford (MBA 2025); By: Dorian Salinas

Office for Community and Culture: Q&A with Terrill Drake

4 weeks ago
In this conversation with Chief Community and Culture Officer Terrill Drake, we discuss the Office for Community and Culture's (OCC) new name, their work with the University's Community and Campus Life office, what the team is working on, and more.
Terrill Drake; By: Shona Simkin

AI-Designed Proteins Can Boost Production of T Cells

4 weeks 1 day ago
Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. Artificial intelligence-designed proteins may be able to boost production of immune cells, particularly T cells that fight cancer and harmful infections, according to new research out of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. The work…
By JESSICA CERRETANI | Boston Children’s Hospital

Unusual Allies: Vagus Nerve Cells Emerge as Defenders Against Flu Damage

4 weeks 1 day ago
Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. A group of nerve cells known for their role in detecting chemical irritation, tissue damage, heat, and pressure now emerge as critical defenders against the worst ravages of the flu caused by an overactive immune response, according to new research by…
By EKATERINA PESHEVA

CPI Manipulation Isn’t an Investor’s Biggest Concern. Watch This Economic Indicator Instead.

4 weeks 2 days ago
For a reality check, I reached out to Alberto Cavallo, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who used to serve on the BLS’s Technical Advisory Committee. (That committee was eliminated by Trump in March.) In an email, he said that “when it comes to inflation data, any significant tampering would likely be easy to detect by outside researchers.”
Alberto Cavallo

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

4 weeks 2 days ago
“It started to become a huge mess,” said Alberto Cavallo, an Argentine economist teaching at Harvard University who created a website that tracked inflation based on publicly available prices to fill the void left by Indec. Users bombarded him with all sorts of questions over email, like how much to adjust settlement payments to an ex after a divorce. “The examples add up, and you end up realizing how important some of these statistics are,” he said.
Alberto Cavallo