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Raiders Rehabilitated
Gordon gekko, the antihero of the 1987 movie Wall Street , epitomizes the excesses of the U.S. financial sector in the 1980s. Gekko embraces insider trading and the strip-and-flip model of the hostile takeover—buy a company, ruthlessly lay off workers, …
Issue: July-August 2008
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 …
Well Done
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. This year’s recipients were to be honored on October 18, during the Harvard Alumni Association’s board of …
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 …
Issue: November-December 2007
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
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
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
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 …
“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
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 …
Governance Reform and Shared Value
How can business help mend the broken U.S. political system—and even step up to fulfill the social needs government fails to meet? Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the best-known scholar of corporate strategy, turned his attention …
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
Edwin Binney, 3rd
Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 …
Issue: January-February 2021