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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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.”

“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.

Professor Christina Wing joins this episode to unpack why most family offices are structurally flawed—and what to do about it. Christina shares insights from advising dozens of families and training hundreds of HBS students from Gen 1, Gen 2, and beyond.

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation—and it raises the worry that, in the future, the numbers won't be as trustworthy. Professor Alberto Cavallo joins this episode to looked at two countries that have some experience with data manipulation. To ask what happens when governments get tempted to cook the books. And...once they cook the books... how hard is it to UN-cook them?

If you want to be happier, try acting like the CEO of your own life. That's what behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks, who teaches at Harvard and contributes to The Atlantic, says in his new book "The Happiness Files," a collection of essays.

Jay W. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and a renowned expert on corporate boards who also did seminal early work on the relationship between environment and the organization, passed away on August 5 at the age of 92. In a distinguished career that spanned over five decades, Lorsch influenced generations of students and practitioners through his teaching and scholarship that contributed significantly to the shape of modern corporate governance and the development of new approaches to understanding organizational behavior.

H. Kent Bowen, a pioneering scholar in technology and operations management, and a beloved mentor, passed away on July 17, 2025, at the age of 83. Known for his visionary leadership and deep commitment to education and industry collaboration, Kent Bowen leaves behind a legacy that helped to shape the field of manufacturing and operations strategy across academia and practice.

While it's still too early to know how many knowledge jobs AI might replace, Christopher Stanton says the "fast-diffusing" technology is reshaping business.

“There are essentially three parties who can end up bearing the cost of tariffs,” says economist Alberto Cavallo, head of the Pricing Lab at Harvard Business School. “It could be foreign exporters, it could be the US firms that are bringing those goods into the US, or it could be US consumers.”