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Why AI is Making 'Soft Skills' More Valuable Than Coding

Harvard labor economist David Deming, PhD '10, argues that technology doesn't end work; it reprices skills. And as AI makes intelligence abundant, the next skill to be repriced upward may be one we barely think of as a skill at all. 

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David Deming
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Custom Blood Vessel Grafts Made in Minutes

The work, led by Michael Peters, PhD '25, a former student in the lab of Harvard SEAS Professor Kit Parker, demonstrates rapid manufacturing of life-saving vascular implants.

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Cover of Advanced Materials magazine showing an illustration of custom blood vessels.
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Bigger Benefits for Kindergarten’s Oldest Boys

New research led by PhD candidate Matthew Jacob finds boys born just after the cutoff, who start kindergarten relatively old for their grade, enjoy far more advantages than previously known.

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Lead author Matthew Jacob, a graduate affiliate of Harvard’s Opportunity Insights research lab.
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Women More Likely to Marry, Land Jobs after Taking GLP-1s

Economist Rebecca Diamond, PhD '13, says the pattern suggests that at least part of the female obesity penalty — the social and financial costs women bear due to their body size — is linked to first impressions. 

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Rebecca Diamond, Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics
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