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Nobel Honorands Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart shared the prize in economic sciences with MIT’s Bengt Holmström for their work on contract theory. Hart’s insight was on incomplete contracts: a contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that …
Issue: January-February 2017
The College within the University
D. Ronald Daniel : There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the whole University. Henry obviously can speak to this, but there was a time in Neil’s era, for example—and Neil had …
Issue: May-June 2006
Military Recruiting Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on their campuses. The 8-0 opinion (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not participate) upheld the Solomon …
Issue: May-June 2006
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors …
Defeat by Truth Is Victory
President Lawrence S. Bacow delivered a Morning Prayers address on August 31, following a tradition in which the Harvard president speaks in Memorial Church at the beginning of the fall term. He began by thanking those in attendance for joining him, …
How to Reform Healthcare
Imagine facing an infection that no medicine can cure. Or finally being diagnosed with a disease that explains all your symptoms—but at a stage too late to treat. How can the practice of medicine change to address challenges like these? More than 100 …
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—it should not let relations with Africa slip from its list of priorities, …
Events
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, at the Loeb Drama Center from June 19 through July 11. For tickets and showtimes, call 617-547-8300 or visit www.amrep.org. The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre …
Harvard Professor Carla Martin on the Cocoa Crisis
Why have chocolate prices surged since before Valentine's Day, hitting an all time high around Easter? Some analysts have predicted that cocoa may reach highs of $10,000 a ton in this historic period of inflation, growing in value at a rate faster than …
Want Freshmen to Bond? Take Them on a Hiking Trip
While backpacking through the New England wilderness, I am often fearful of taking a turn down a wrong path. Usually, I am not alone: 10 bright-eyed incoming first-year students and a fellow upperclassman follow close behind as I crane my neck to scout …
Health Benefits to Cost 3.8 Percent More
After several years of significant increases in employee healthcare spending, Harvard’s overall healthcare costs will increase 3.8 percent in 2018 (down from last year’s 7 percent increase, and 7.3 percent the previous year). Employees’ monthly premiums …
Harvard Survey: Widespread Nonconsensual Sexual Contact
Harvard today released the results of a sexual conduct survey taken at the University during the spring of 2015, and the results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public AAU (Association of American Universities) institutions that …
A Living Treasure in Boston
With 281 acres of thriving trees, flowers, and bushes from around the globe, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is so much more than a walk in the park. The historic oasis was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and today still …
Issue: July-August 2020
Report to Readers
January 2023 In challenging times —pandemic and inflation, polarized politics, the horrors of war in Europe— Harvard’s work matters more than ever . Discovering the biological mechanisms that lead to novel vaccines. Exploring the histories and cultures …
Issue: January-February 2023
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Law Leader’s Leavetaking Martha Minow , dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2009, announced in January that she would step down at the end of the academic year; she plans to return to teaching and scholarship, and to “more robust engagement with the …
Issue: March-April 2017