The Harvard Crimson

The Former Harvard Professor Who Won This Year’s Nobel Prize in Economics

Former Harvard Economics professor Philippe M. Aghion won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on economic growth and innovation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Oct. 13.
The Harvard Crimson

The Economics Department Needs To Raise Its Standards

Matthew R. Tobin ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Social Studies and Economics in Winthrop House. Almost one-third of Harvard’s varsity upperclassmen athletes study ...
The Business Journals

Billionaire backs Harvard's largest academic program with new building

Oct 31, 2025, 7:52am EDT Updated: Oct 31, 2025, 9:56am EDT Moshe Zusman Photography Studio Penny Pritzker, a former U.S. secretary of commerce and 1981 Harvard graduate. From the Boston Business ...
The Boston Globe

Larry Summers tells Harvard students he wants to continue teaching

Harvard University president and president emirtis Larry Summers this week told students in his introductory economics class that he regrets his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, but that he wants ...
Harvard Medical School

HBS, HKS professors win award for best health economics paper

Marcella Alsan, Joshua Schwartzstein, and their co-authors have been honored with the 2025 Arrow Award for their paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials.” Alsan is the ...

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