Work & Economy

To keep its promise to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its portfolio by 2050, the Harvard Corporation directed Harvard Management Company to give an early assessment of where its efforts and investments stand now.

As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.

Business School professor Mitchell Weiss looks at ways to encourage creativity, innovation.

The coronavirus pandemic will likely make some vaccine companies rich, but which companies and how rich relies on the still-murky future of the pandemic, a Harvard health policy expert said.

After a decade helming Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria talks about what he’s learned and walking away from the job he loves.

A report found that 90 percent of companies surveyed see a future in shifting their talent model to a blend of full-time and freelance employees.

Harvard economists have estimated the pandemic’s overall cost at a staggering $16 trillion, an economic toll not seen since the Great Depression, and say that figure justifies the expense of efforts to combat it.

Harvard experts examine the promise and potential pitfalls as AI takes a bigger decision-making role in more industries.

New research finds workers laid off during the lockdown faced major barriers when accessing financial support. The survey also notes stark differences between states, and hunger and other major hardships suffered by service sector workers unable to secure assistance.

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff assesses the state of the U.S. economy and what’s on the horizon.

A Harvard Kennedy School research initiative that studies racial bias in the private sector will consider why diversity and inclusion efforts fail.

COVID-related workplace interventions have focused on workers’ physical health, but a new study shows that attention should be paid to replacing workplace social networks also disrupted by the virus.

Harvard researcher says Coke worked through a D.C. nonprofit to shape obesity science and policy solutions in China.

According to a Harvard study, a majority of households with children in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston are facing serious financial problems.

Soltan Bryce, an M.B.A. student and trans man, leads the growth of a digital startup that’s bringing much-needed health care to the historically neglected trans community.

In doing research for his new book “Step Back,” Joseph Badaracco studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.

Edward Cunningham and Philip Jordan examine China’s post COVID-19 economic recovery in an effort to better understand what’s next for America’s own attempts to rebuild.

An interview with Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs and HLS Lecturer Sharon Block about the legal workplace issues in the time of COVID-19.

Experts look at the long-term financial fallout from a 1921 riot that left an affluent Black community, known as Black Wall Street, destroyed by a white mob numbering in the thousands.

Opportunity Insights report suggests targeted social insurance programs may be more effective than U.S. economic recovery strategies.

If not a new lockdown, how do we slow the coronavirus in the future, researchers ask.

With the National Party Congress, China’s annual legislative session, concluded, the Ash Center sat down with Director Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, to discuss a new security law that could define the future of Beijing’s relationship with Hong Kong.

Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.

An op-ed that was cosigned by more than 5,000 researchers from universities around the globe, issued an urgent plea: We need to transform the way we work.

A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.

A majority of people in the U.S. want to continue physical distancing measures, even as the federal government and some state governors are pushing to reopen the economy, according to a new national survey.

Harvard economist Melissa Dell has received the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal. The annual award, administered by the American Economic Association, honors an “American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.”

As governors weigh when to allow businesses to reopen, Harvard faculty discuss which industries have been helped and hurt by the pandemic, and some of the hurdles surviving businesses will face to reverse their fortunes.

Owners of ranch and nursery since the 1970s talk about the interdependence of financial and environmental viability.

An interview with economist Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School, about the economic impact of the coronavirus on both the world and the U.S. economy.