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An Unexpected Risk Factor
One risk to continued strong endowment performance not addressed in Mohamed A. El-Erian’s annual letter was the uncertainty arising from unanticipated change in Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) leadership and perhaps in other senior investment …
Issue: November-December 2007
Directing Development
Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Drew Faust announced on September 7. The appointment, concluding an extended nationwide search, fills the vacancy left by the …
From Anecdote to Equation
The idea seems simple enough: Get detailed information about the participants in a given social program—public-housing residents, say, or applicants for organ transplants. Then, given that we live in a world of limited resources, use that information to …
Issue: September-October 2007
Due Process
As recently as 10 years ago, Jeannie Suk Gersen was still telling people that the area of law she specialized in—sexual assault and domestic violence—didn’t hold much interest for the general public. A quiet corner of the profession, she thought. …
Issue: March-April 2021
Breathing New Life into “The Eyesore on Church Street”
Yesterday evening in a meeting open to the public, Cambridge business owners and residents gathered around a projector at the back of Beat Brasserie in Harvard Square to learn about the future of 10 Church Street. The redesign process for the long-vacant …
Beyond the Core
The Task Force on General Education (TFGE), commissioned last spring, has issued a preliminary report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), for discussion this fall and possible enactment next spring. The draft, circulated October 3, suggests a …
Fashion Forward
Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright Hockey Center, gaping as my fellow Harvard students parade above me in blazers with no shirts underneath, and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Commencement Confetti
Musical Notes Joshuah Brian Campbell ’16 did double duty— nailing his Senior English Address during the Morning Exercises but also, literally, singing for his dinner the night before. At the honorands’ banquet in Annenberg Hall, accompanied by guitarist …
Issue: July-August 2016
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning,” they’d tell their difficult patients. In the 1950s, when the randomized controlled trial was developed as a procedure, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Next Steps
On a Wednesday afternoon in April, members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company rehearsed Esplanade in their sunny, Lower East Side studio. Eight dancers leapt and crawled, paired up and drifted apart, and walked, ran, and slid across the floor—pedestrian …
Issue: July-August 2018
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Daniel Gilbert Caroline M. Hoxby Jon Chase / Harvard News …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Delivering brief presentations on subjects from infrastructural aesthetics to aliens, seven Harvard Horizons scholars shared their research to an enthusiastic Sanders Theater crowd. The students had been selected in what Graduate School of Arts and …
Free to Fly
Inside the conservatory , it doesn’t take long for one of them to land on Kathy Fiore’s forearm. The large rice paper butterfly, a silvery yellow with black veined lines, hails from Southeast Asia. Although it flies in a gentle, floating manner and is now …
Issue: November-December 2023
Football: Harvard 14, Dartmouth 13
At game’s end last Friday night at Harvard Stadium, a reporter from The Harvard Crimson turned to her colleagues in the press box and held up her hands. “How,” she asked, “did we win this game?” The young lady may be forgiven her partisanship, usually …
A Composed Response
One morning in the spring of 2015, the composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, Ph.D. ’00, was riding the bus to Boston’s Berklee College of Music (now the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he’s chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies). …
Issue: January-February 2018