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Base of the Pyramid Thank you for the important article about impact investing ( “Business for the Other Billions,” September-October, page 31), which offers perhaps the best hope for alleviating poverty, and should appeal to anyone at any point along the …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a familiar and disturbing trend has emerged: the disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans …
Size, Strength, and Maturity: Josue Ortiz Draws Kudos
Defensive tackle Josue Ortiz ’11, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine, was the subject of a preseason football article in the Boston Globe . In the piece, head Harvard football coach Tim Murphy noted both teammates’ inability to block Ortiz in …
Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managers—the subject of criticism and debate in recent years—took on a different look when Harvard Management Company (HMC) released its report for the fiscal year ended June 30, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
Is private equity monetizing medicine at patients’ expense? According to associate professor of health care policy and medicine Zirui Song and other Harvard researchers, patients in hospitals owned by private equity firms suffered significantly more …
Issue: May-June 2024
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the first time detected the fingerprint of a melting ice sheet, as it creates distinctive patterns of change to global sea levels. Newly released satellite data allowed …
News Briefs
Giving Guidance In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal (which did not touch Harvard) and gifts from Jeffrey Epstein (which assuredly did: see “Jeffrey Epstein’s Extensive Reach,” July-August, page 27), the University has promulgated a new …
Issue: September-October 2020
Two Harvard Students Awarded Marshall Scholarships
The 2016 class of Marshall Scholars includes seniors Bianca Mulaney and Rebecca Panovka. Mulaney will study at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); her research interests include assessment of the economic impact of antimicrobial …
Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits
New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city of Cambridge banned all work with the new technology. Already, human embryonic stem-cell research has compelled …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Men Edge Yale and Brown
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report When Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker arrived in Cambridge in 2007, he professed his excitement about making “history” by leading Harvard to its first Ivy League championship in men’s …
George Daley Appointed Harvard Medical Dean
Pioneering stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective January 1, 2017. He succeeds Jeffrey S. Flier, who concluded nine years of service on July 31; Watts professor of health care policy and …
Job Notices
Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning and working opportunities, contact the offices listed below. The Office of Career Services connects students …
Issue: November-December 2009
No Longer an “Ugly Step-Child”
On a bright Friday morning in September, a jackhammer bore down on the Mill Street pavement. All through the House, not a Winthrop student was stirring, insulated from the din by the 1,039 new double - paned windows. With their move into the renovated …
The Coronavirus Spring
Existential Q&A. A novel situation, like a pandemic, raises novel questions. For one, is an impeccable university campus still beautiful if no one is around to see it? In search of an answer, Primus walked across Harvard Yard early on March 24, shortly …
Issue: July-August 2020
Lightning Strikes Twice
Last Monday, a Harvard faculty member and an alumnus shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with a third scholar. Today, another Harvard faculty member and another alumnus did the same: Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer …