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Eight Trends for 2026

Alumnus Alberto Carvallo joins his Harvard Business School colleagues in highlighting the forces—from inflation to innovation—likely to shape business during the coming year.

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Harvard, Leadership, and Free Speech

University President Alan Garber, PhD '82, and Yehuda Kurtzer, PhD '09, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, reflect on leadership in a moment of crisis—exploring free speech and protest, institutional neutrality, and the rise of antisemitism on campus.

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Alan M. Garber, PhD ’82
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Cancer Risk May Increase with Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants

Study co-authored by PhD student Yazan Alwadi shows that in Massachusetts, residential proximity to a nuclear power plant was associated with significantly increased cancer incidence, with risk declining by distance.

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How to Make Resolutions Stick

University of Pennsylvania Professor Katy Milkman was a PhD student at Harvard Griffin GSAS when the Harry Potter novels helped her make a foundational discovery about “temptation bundling,” the process by which we develop and reinforce desirable habits by coupling something we enjoy.

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UPenn Professor Katy Milkman
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Lessons in Courage

Is courage learned or something you’re born with? It’s an essential question that Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati, PhD '93, sets out to answer in his critically acclaimed new book, “How to be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage.”

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