A new NBER working paper from researchers at Harvard and the Norwegian School of Economics surveyed over 9,000 workers and found that time spent in meetings was the strongest predictor of wage growth among all workplace activities studied. Meetings consume about 12% of work hours on average, and the study found firms with more meetings tend to be more successful overall, while employees attending more meetings saw greater pay and career progress.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-15
A multiyear Harvard study led by psychologist Matthew K. Nock tracked over 600 high-risk adults and adolescents and successfully predicted 75 percent of suicide attempts and 87 percent of suicide-related events in the seven days before they happened. The findings, set to publish in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, mark a sharp improvement over traditional models that forecast risk months or years out rather than days.
current.fas.harvard.edu
· 2026-09-09
A commentary revisits a 2010 Harvard study showing people are happier focusing on the present, even boring tasks, than letting their minds wander. The author argues this problem has intensified in tech culture, where excessive optionality, social comparison, and startup hype make it hard for ambitious people to commit fully to their current path.
hvpandya.com
· 2026-09-05
Harvard Business School has launched an eight-week online entrepreneurship program priced at $699 that uses AI-generated avatars of its faculty to provide round-the-clock guidance to participants. The course lets aspiring founders interact with digital clones of professors instead of relying solely on scheduled lectures or office hours, and early participants have reportedly responded positively.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-01
Blue Voice, a Boston startup founded by Harvard Law dropout David Lawrence, has emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC. The platform gives police officers instant, real-time access to department-specific policies, laws and protocols, and is already used by officers across 225 county agencies in 25 states.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-31
A Harvard Business School survey found that about half of U.S. workers favor working from home, with 40% willing to accept a pay cut of at least 5% for the option to telecommute. The trend is fueling interest in launching home-based startups, with several viable small-business ideas requiring no traditional office space.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-29
Harvard researchers surveyed over 100 blind and low-vision people and identified turn-by-turn directions, continuous path guidance, and obstacle detection as top needs. They responded by creating Mobilio, a standalone smartphone app that combines the camera, GPS, motion sensors, and LiDAR (when available) to steer users safely along sidewalks and paths.
seas.harvard.edu
· 2026-08-27
Harvard Business School has introduced HBS Foundry, an eight-week online entrepreneurship program priced at $699 that lets participants practice pitches and business conversations with AI video avatars of real faculty, including senior lecturer Jeff Bussgang. The course has already been piloted with more than 100 universities and guides users from refining a business idea through pitching investors and customers, combining course materials, AI tools and a peer community.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-25
On the New York Times podcast 'Hard Fork,' Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that tech leaders are constructing what she calls an 'artificial state,' where corporations and machines increasingly make decisions once reserved for democratic government. She says this shift bypasses public consent, noting that ordinary people generally don't want more AI or data centers imposed on their lives. Lepore explores the concept further in her forthcoming book, 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.'
futurism.com
· 2026-08-25
A Harvard Business School analysis led by Professor Mark Egan finds that interchange fees baked into retail prices generate about $9.2 billion annually in net rewards for affluent credit card users, while cash and debit customers pay the same higher prices but receive little or none of that money back. Across the broader economy, the researchers estimate roughly $30 billion moves each year from cash and debit users to credit card users at the same stores.
library.hbs.edu
· 2026-08-25
Harvard researchers studying ribosomal RNA in the California two-spot octopus discovered an unprecedented gap that splits a normally single RNA fragment into two pieces, a feature not seen in any other animal studied so far. This structural quirk, published in Current Biology, appears to help ribosomes assemble proteins with unusual precision, and so far turns up only in octopus lineages with enlarged nervous systems capable of complex behavior.
smithsonianmag.com
· 2026-08-24
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