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(February 4, 2013) The White House recently announced President Obama’s appointment of Harvard Economics Professor James Stock as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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(January 11, 2013) Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty was recently elected as one of the new Fellows of the Econometric Society.
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(December 5, 2012) Professor Amartya Sen has been awarded the Legion of Honor Medal by the French Government and the Medal of the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican Government.
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(October 15, 2012) Professor Alvin Roth of the Harvard Economics Department has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in finding practical uses for market design matching algorithms.
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(October 2, 2012) The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty as one of 23 new MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2012.
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(September 11, 2012) The Harvard University Department of Economics received the distinction of being named the top-ranked school on the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) list of best programs in Business/Economics.
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(September 10, 2012) Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel Laureate who has been a professor of Economics since 1985, was recently named as an Adams University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.
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(August 28, 2012) Professor Tomasz Strzalecki has been named the Furer Fellow in the Department of Economics, for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2012.
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(August 2, 2012) Professor Maximilian Kasy has joined the Department of Economics at Harvard University as Assistant Professor of Economics.
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(August 2, 2012) Melissa Dell has joined the Harvard University Department of Economics as an associate of the department.
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(August 2, 2012) Nathaniel Hendren has joined the Harvard University Department of Economics as an associate of the department. Next year he will be a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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(July 26, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Elhanan Helpman was recently elected as a Corresponding Fellow at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 19, 2012.
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(July 25, 2012) Professor Oliver Hart of the Harvard University Economics Department was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Warwick Summer Degree Congregation in a ceremony on Friday, July 20, 2012.
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(June 15, 2012) The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) has announced its second biennial prize for contributions to economic policy will be awarded to Harvard Economics Professor Martin S. Feldstein.
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(May 21, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Jeremy Stein, recently chosen by President Obama for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, confirmed by the US Senate.
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(May 14, 2012) Professor Elhanan Helpman of the Harvard University Department of Economics has received the 2012 Onassis Prize for International Trade.
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(May 9, 2012) The Harvard University Economics Department has received, for the third year in a row, the top ranking in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities.
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(May 1, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Susan Athey has been named as one of the 84 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
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(April 3, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Eric Maskin was recently awarded the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
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(February 16, 2012) Harvard Assistant Professor of Economics Tomasz Strzalecki has been named as one of the 2012 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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(February 13, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Amartya Sen is one of nine scholars named by President Obama to receive the 2011 National Humanities Medal.
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(February 1, 2012) Harvard University economists Raj Chetty and John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia University recently released a paper entitled “The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.”
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(January 25, 2012) Claudia Goldin has been named President-Elect 2012, by The American Economic Association.
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(January 17, 2012) Professor Efraim Benmelech of the Harvard Department of Economics has been awarded the 2011 Brattle Group first prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance.
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(January 10, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Jeremy Stein has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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(December 2, 2011) Professor David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department has been named as a winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
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(October 17, 2011) Roland Fryer has been awarded the 2nd Calvó-Armengol International Prize, promoted by the Barcelona GSE, the Government of Andorra, and the Crèdit Andorrà Foundation.
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(October 11, 2011) The Harvard University Department of Economics has ranked at the top among university programs in Economics in a global survey by QS World University Rankings for 2011 and in the Tilburg University Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Ranking.
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(September 20, 2011) Professor Roland Fryer was recently named as one of 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows to receive a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship in 2011.
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(September 6, 2011) Professor Emmanuel Farhi has recently been awarded the Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011 by the Association Française de Science Economique in Paris.
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