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Setup for a Comeback?
Tommy Amaker, the Stemberg head coach of men’s basketball, usually delivers leadership lessons on the sideline. But on Sunday, November 15, one day after his team’s loss to Providence, he ventured across the river to address students in the Harvard …
Harvard Corporation Supports President Gay
The Harvard Corporation sent an email Tuesday morning to the Harvard community, including alumni, expressing support for President Claudine Gay’s continued leadership of the University. The statement noted that Gay had apologized for her handling of …
Football: Harvard 42, Lafayette 0
It’s a football axiom: To win, you must establish the running game. Last Saturday at Fisher Stadium in Easton, Pennsylvania, the Lafayette football team failed abjectly to achieve that aim against Harvard. After 30 minutes, the Leopards’ total on the …
What Does It Mean To Be a Corporate Citizen?
“ There could really be no more important discussion than the one we are having today,” said Kissel professor of law David Wilkins last Thursday, introducing a daylong conference that plunged into what has become an intensely controversial subject: ESG. …
Mitzvot
“What is the best thing you’ve done as president?” It is a question I am asked frequently these days. If I were to name everything of which I am proud, everything accomplished with the help of many other people over these last five years, there would be …
Issue: March-April 2023
The Mobile Revolution
Main Article Business for the Other Billions Ironically, nothing bedevils lower-income people gaining a foothold in the cash economy more than dealing with cash, particularly in developing nations with poor infrastructure. It’s an improvement on …
Issue: September-October 2015
Endowment Managers' Compensation Reported
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has issued its annual report on the compensation of its most highly paid in-house investment professionals. The news, often the subject of close scrutiny, comes at a particularly sensitive time. The managers' compensation …
The Senior Alumni
The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present at Commencement were 94-year-old Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, who was accompanied by her son, Clifford Richmond ’75, and 97-year-old Robert F. Rothschild ’39, of New York City, who …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Purpose of Harvard Law School
This past year, Harvard Law School (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in Wasserstein Hall, a racial justice movement calling itself Reclaim Harvard Law School formed in …
Brevia
Pudding Pluralism On the occasion of honoring (and roasting) Woman of the Year Mila Kunis—a star of That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan, and other series and films—on January 25 (shown above in the traditional parade), Hasty Pudding Theatricals …
Issue: March-April 2018
Things Fell Apart
Nicholas Lemann ’76— past dean of Columbia Journalism School, New Yorker staff writer —has an uncanny ability to reveal society’s undercurrents through smaller stories (standardized testing, selective admissions, etc., in The Big Test: The Secret History …
Issue: September-October 2019
The SIGnboard: Spring Events
Many Shared Interest Groups ( alumni.harvard.edu/haa/clubs-sigs/sigs-directory ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Some early listings appear below; updates will be posted here and at …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Goodness of Being Together
For many people, the most significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the sheer weight of isolation: the abrupt absence of routine social interaction with fellow human beings, from relatives to work colleagues, classmates to cashiers. Being alone …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard Men Sweep Princeton and Penn
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Wednesday, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat on a leather couch in the glass-encased lounge overlooking Lavietes Pavilion, sporting salt and pepper fuzz on his face and speaking …
Finding Their Stride?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Entering Saturday’s Ivy League opener against Dartmouth, the Harvard men’s basketball team had thrived or perished based on the performance of reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Wesley …