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Artful Campus
Visitors to Harvard Business School (HBS) know its corridors are enriched with a significant, thought-provoking, collection of contemporary art (see “Rethinking the Walls,” January-February 2013). Now the grounds are enlivened as well: not only with new …
Issue: November-December 2016
Best-selling Author Taps Honors Thesis on Meltdown
The summa cum laude thesis in economics written by A.K. Barnett-Hart ’09 was a useful source for Michael Lewis's just-published book The Big Short, on the Wall Street meltdown and ensuing recession, according to Peter Lattman's " Deal Journal , " a …
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
Young teens in poor countries often buy cigarettes one at a time because they can’t afford a whole package. But that’s still enough to foster an addiction. South African physician and former cabinet minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma saw this as a major …
NSF Announces New Family-Friendly Policies
The White House and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced a new series of policies, the “NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative,” that aim to give researchers—particularly women—more flexibility in balancing parenthood with workplace demands, …
Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
Kerry Washington has been chosen to receive the 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, honoring a “talented and socially engaged film, TV, and stage actress who keeps breaking barriers in Hollywood,” the Harvard student group announced on January 6 . …
Collaboration on Climate Change
Continuing a busy visit to the People’s Republic of China—following an alumni and Harvard Campaign event on Sunday and a meeting with President Xi Jinping on Monday—President Drew Faust gave a Tuesday morning address on the role of universities in …
A Laboratory for Mixing Art and Science
To David Edwards , McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, the intersection of art and science represents a gold mine of creativity. Edwards has written a book about the potential for transformation and innovation inherent in this …
Negatively Curved Crystals
In Norman Juster’s children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth , the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the ground for all eternity, then taking a left at the end. Fortunately, for viewers in a hurry, an exhibition now on display on …
President Bacow's Commencement Remarks
As prepared for delivery May 25, 2023 I suspect many of you are sitting here today, as newly minted Harvard graduates, wondering what the future holds for you. I can relate to that. This is my last Commencement, and I am pondering the same question. …
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
He was the eldest son of a shoemaker turned Universalist preacher. When he was 15, his father died, but his father’s message, “the gospel of inclusion”—that God loves us all, asking us to do the same for others—became his life mission. He became the sole …
Issue: July-August 2021
Larry Wilmore Follows His Path
In the summer of 1982 , then-college junior Larry Wilmore traveled to Rhode Island to sell books door-to-door. Now an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and actor, Wilmore still thinks back to his summer working for Southwestern Advantage. He learned a …
Harvard Law Weighs In
As legal education and the profession face substantial change—with law graduates’ careers developing in increasingly varied, often global, contexts—Harvard Law School (HLS) kicked off its “Campaign for the Third Century” on October 23, becoming the last …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Betting on Lookout Farm
As a serial entrepreneur, who had founded some 30 businesses, Steven Belkin, M.B.A. ’71, was primed to find out if his Lookout Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, could succeed not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it. “‘Open an outdoor restaurant?’” he …
Issue: September-October 2021
Beasts of the Big Screen
“We wanted to see dinosaurs in places we’ve never seen them before.” It’s not the sort of mission statement you hear every day, especially since the creatures in question have been extinct for millions of years. But Emily Carmichael ’04 is talking about …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
The New Yorker in recent weeks has been full of items with Crimson connections. Last week's issue (dated February 1) had two: Architecture critic Paul Goldberger's glowing review of the work of Jeanne Gang , M.Arch. ’93, including the new Aqua apartment …