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Bullish on Private Colleges
In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection of disruptive technologies with outmoded or failed …
Issue: November-December 2011
HAA News
Share and Share Alike The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has taken a big step toward adding shared interest groups (SIGs) to the list of alumni organizations it serves. Earlier this year, the HAA board approved a policy enabling the association to …
Issue: May-June 2004
“For Exceptional Service…”
Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards (during the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors’ fall meeting), for their outstanding service to the University. Danguole Spakevicius Altman ’81 of Houston, a member of her class’s thirty-fifth-reunion …
Issue: September-October 2018
Design Engineering Debuts
How can aging and elderly populations be accommodated in today’s cities? What must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s …
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a narrow, bare-bulb, basement cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years …
Issue: March-April 2002
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped aboard the Cycleboat Boston cruise gamely pedaled away from Charlestown’s Pier 6 . A briny breeze kicked up. Along with four other riders, including a just-married couple, they were out …
Issue: July-August 2021
Teaching the Harvard Slavery Report
Not quite a year after Harvard laid bare its historic ties to slavery in a detailed 134-page report , a small group of faculty members and teaching staff gathered on campus late last week for a two-day seminar on how to integrate that report’s findings …
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets a lesson from an old hand. One crisis I was witness to—which reinforces the importance of knowing …
Atul Gawande Harvard Alumni Day Speech
As prepared for delivery. President Garber and fellow alumni, thank you for this chance to speak. Alumni Day has apparently drawn a record 9,000 attendees this year. I think I know why. Lately, I too have been hungry to connect with others in this …
Rebuilding or Reloading?
It was either sheer inertia or a heartfelt tribute to Tim Murphy that made the voters in the Ivy League’s preseason football poll place two-time defending champion Harvard on top again for 2016. More likely it was the latter; in his 22 seasons on the …
Issue: November-December 2016
Justice Seeker
Stephen j. rapp ’71 is no longer an assistant secretary of state, but his work to bring international criminals to justice is moving full speed ahead. Based in The Hague, he plays a leading role in the effort to put Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
The front pages of the New York Times’ s news, arts, and science sections on September 27 featured articles bearing on pioneering research conducted by senior Harvard faculty members. The news article, “Fighting Cancer with Vinegar and Ingenuity,” …
The Magic of Luigi Lucioni
The Shelburne Museum’s exhibition “Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light,” through October 16, offers a close look at the artist, who, when pressed, described his take on the world as “super realism.” It’s the first comprehensive show of his paintings, works on …
Issue: September-October 2022
The Undergraduate Through the Years
This magazine's "Undergraduate" column provides snapshots of contemporary student life. Some columns capture a moment in time; others demonstrate how the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, we …
Issue: September-October 2011
Fast Start
Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust has launched her transition briskly. Drawing on her experience as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in which …
Issue: May-June 2007