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Managing Harvard: A New Deal?
Editor’s note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the...
“Listening will be the hardest part”
Let me introduce you to a couple of my ghosts. As I stand here, I think of my two grandfathers—Lawrence Crowder and Robert Styles...
Tortes in Memory
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." In her new book, The Window Shop: Safe Harbor for...
Frederick Law Olmsted
Between 1857 and 1950, Frederick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, and the firm he founded shaped many of our nation’s notable open...
Centennial Medalists
Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers the Centennial Medals.
Entrepreneurs' Evangelist
Thomas McCraw, Straus professor of business history emeritus at Harvard Business School, has written a large book about a Harvard professor of...
Arts and Science Transitions
The beginning of the end of a period of instability in the leadership of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) came on June 4, when...
Might mice with speed and endurance give clues treating degenerative disease
Harvard scientists have created a mighty mouse, a rodent endowed with a rare type of muscle that combines unusual power and speed, like that of...
Interim Accomplishments
When he was summoned back to Massachusetts Hall in February 2006, interim president Derek Bok told a group of Harvard administrators last...
Parenting Passages
“No matter how old you get, you’re still my baby.” How many of us have heard just such a line from a doting parent, or said it...
Harvard's 2007 honorary degree recipients
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
Harvard Medalists
Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service, and were publicly thanked by President Derek Bok, during the Harvard Alumni...