Bridging the gap, digitally
One recent morning, Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), sat down in a virtually empty Harvard conference room and prepared to explain...
View ArticleSAI offers ‘feet on the street’ experience
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Institute (SAI) has continued the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia. Learning from South Asia and contributing to its...
View ArticleClues to cholera resistance
Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in susceptibility to cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect...
View ArticleThe bright side of Pakistan
The initial idea was a lecture by a noted Harvard design professor and a quiet discussion with a small group of interested local partners. By January, however, the event had grown into a three-day...
View ArticleWeapons for battling viruses
It is a deadly virus, killing more than half the people it infects. It originates in bats, crossing into humans who come in contact with them. It first causes fever, as do many other ailments, leaving...
View ArticleHarvard scholars take fresh look at the Partition of British India, which...
The birth of Hindu-led India and Muslim-ruled Pakistan in 1947 from what had been British India was horrifically violent, the start of a religious conflict in which millions died and millions more fled...
View ArticleHarvard researcher tracks clonal raider ant to Bangladesh
Ants are among the most damaging invasive species in the world, and several types have been spread by human activity around the world. Learning more about these ants and their original natural habitats...
View ArticleTracing Amartya Sen’s journey from colonial India to Nobel Prize and beyond
Life stories from Drew Faust, Howard Gardner, Annette Gordon-Reed, Martin Karplus, Toshiko Mori, Steven Pinker, E.O. Wilson, Paul Farmer, and many more, in the Experience series. Coming from a long...
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