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Profile of Bob Friedman, founder of the Corporation for Enterprise Development

Bob Friedman ’71 looks for ladders to help people climb out of poverty.

by Ben Beach

New Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller

Meet Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Cherone Duggan and Kathryn Reed are the new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Fellows

Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.

Q&A with Thomas A. Kochan

“All the other things we used to think about as a social contract…” Thomas A. Kochan, Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research

Harvard to resume expansion in Allston with stem cell science building, housing

Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.

Renewing and renovating the Houses for Harvard undergraduates

Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.

Shared Interest Group events in September-October 2012

Shared Interest Group events in September and October

Q&A with Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin

“We should have been worried before the Great Recession.” Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University Professor, and Jan W. Rivkin, Rauner professor of business administration and head of HBS’s strategy unit

Sue Minter is Vermont’s Irene Recovery Officer

Sue Minter ’83 is helping her state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irene.

by Katherine Xue

Harvard College programs that assist first-generation undergraduates

A financial-aid initiative and other College programs help first- generation undergraduates feel at home.

Q&A with Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“A country can become complacent about its assets.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Arbuckle professor of business administration, in HBS’s general management unit, and chair and director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative

Harvard news: solar cells, edX rolls out, Drew Faust on TV, and more

Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the Gilgamesh sculpture, and more