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Strokes of Genius
Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you don’t count Bobby Jones ’24 , who didn’t tee it up for the Crimson) arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf …
Issue: September-October 2016
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the University's lowest-paid employees, then president Neil L. Rudenstine appointed a Harvard Committee on Employment and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Getting Close to the Past
Clint Smith, who received a Ph.D. in education from Harvard in 2020, has written an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: what we …
Issue: November-December 2021
Civil War Reawakened
A new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart ’92, recently reviewed in Harvard Magazine, was also the subject of a searching, favorable review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Goodheart's volume, years in the making, explores …
Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the evolution of United States nuclear policy. Bunn has been a leader of the Project on …
Classified Advertising
Why Advertise in Harvard Magazine's Classifieds Section? Exclusive Audience: Access Harvard University's alumni, faculty, and staff—an engaged readership with high purchasing power. Proven Success: Advertisers have rented properties, sold homes, grown …
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Anyone who follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found that …
Issue: November-December 2021
Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni received Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their volunteer work: recruiting and interviewing prospective undergraduates. William L. (“Ike”) …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard Law Offers Pre-matriculation Material Free Nationwide
Amid wide concern driven by the COVID-19 pandemic (Is it safe to attend?) and recession (Can I afford it?), with many colleges and universities expecting enrollment to plummet this fall, Harvard Law School (HLS) has decided to offer Zero-L—its online, …
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
Consumer-facing artificial intelligence—algorithms that adjust product pricing based on what they know about a buyer—could, in some circumstances, inappropriately take advantage of the public, argue a pair of Harvard Law School scholars who are assessing …
Issue: March-April 2024
On Campus, Concisely
Race Debate, and Defacement Harvard Law School (HLS) was rattled in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing concerns over …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
News Briefs
Faculty-Dean Denouement During the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 7, President Lawrence S. Bacow was asked his views on the turmoil at Winthrop House, where student protesters had loudly sought the ouster of their faculty deans, Ronald …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: July-August 2019
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to faculty members early in April, Dean Jeremy R. Knowles sought to explain the dynamics of this spurt (the first since …
Issue: May-June 2007
University People
Dunster Departures Dunster House faculty deans Roger B. Porter , IBM professor of business and government, and Ann Porter announced in early March that they would step down at the end of this academic year, concluding 16 years of service. They took the …
Issue: May-June 2017
Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as the very legal system itself? At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, and public …