Dec 2nd, 2008 · The board responsible for assessing economic cycles announced Monday the U.S. economy is in a recession, and has been for nearly a year. Jeff Frankel, a Harvard professor and a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee for the National Bureau of Economic Research, offers his insight.
Nov 30th, 2008 · Andrea Seabrook shares parting words from Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson
Nov 20th, 2008 · As central banks continue to slash interest rates almost to zero, prices can plummet. It creates a liquidity trap, as it did in the 1930s and in Japan during the 1990s. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff outlines what deflation could mean for modern America.
Nov 19th, 2008 · Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 tells the story of the 1968 football meeting between the Ivy League archrivals. Filmmaker Kevin Rafferty's father was a former Yale football captain, but Rafferty chose to go to Harvard.
Oct 21st, 2008 · The Washington, D.C., school system is paying students who work hard and get good grades. The idea is the brainchild of a Harvard economist who has persuaded several school districts around the country that disruptive, unmotivated students will change their ways if cash is a carrot.
Oct 3rd, 2008 · Now that the House has passed the massive financial rescue plan, what's next? Ken Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and Adam Posen, deputy director and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, offer their insight.
Jul 20th, 2008 · Host Liane Hansen speaks with first-time novelist Christina Meldrum, a litigator and Harvard graduate. In Madapple, readers enter the household of an exceptionally disturbed family, where questions about faith and religion abound. (Knopf, ISBN-10: 0375851763)
Jul 4th, 2008 · Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem, which — no surprise — he solved. His paper on the solution was published, and until recently it remained the best solution to that problem: stacking pancakes.