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Making Organizations Moral
In the early 2000s, a riptide of business scandals toppled Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. In the aftermath, says Straus professor of business administration Max Bazerman , “society turned to professional schools” to ask why their graduates were …
Issue: November-December 2014
Big Sky Blues
In high school , Philip Aaberg 71 took train voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study piano with master teacher Margaret Saunders Ott. Four decades later, Ott is 86 and Aaberg still makes the same …
Issue: November-December 2006
Valerie Montgomery Rice’s Medical and Dental Schools Class Day Address
Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you to the Harvard medical and dental class of 2021 for inviting me to be your Class Day speaker this year. I am deeply honored that you chose me, particularly at this time in history. A time that has seen …
Service, and Families
Alongside the Memorial Church —built as a shrine to the Harvard dead of World War I, on the campus of one of the nation’s very first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps chapters—families, friends, alumni, and spectators gathered on Wednesday morning to …
The Gravity of Groups
One evening during graduate school, Mina Cikara was chatting with her future husband and another friend, who was wearing a baseball cap backward. At first, she recalls, it was a very civil conversation. But then her friend turned around, revealing a New …
Issue: May-June 2024
Brevia
Design Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler , dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design since February 2005 (and acting dean for several months before that), announced on October 23 that he would step down at …
Issue: January-February 2007
Ski All About It
Appalachian Mountain Club 603-466-2727 www.outdoors.org/lodging/mainelodges/lyford/lodge-to-lodge-skiing.cfm Natural snow and 80 miles of groomed trails (without set tracks) run between and around two lodges, Little Lyford and Gorman Chairback. (A third …
Issue: November-December 2013
Supporting Young Scientists
What does it mean to be part of a community of scientists? For Chimdimnma (“Chi-Chi”) Esimai ’08, it meant, for one thing, having a ready group of basketball opponents. On a typical evening this summer, Esimai finished work in the Engineering Sciences …
Issue: September-October 2006
First-hand recollections
Harvard University Sports Information Herman "Gunny" Gundlach '35, Harvard's oldest living football captain "It was just a thrill to walk out in that stadium. You felt like you were going to war. Just before the Yale game, our coach, Eddie Casey, liked to …
Issue: September-October 2003
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
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The tenth annual ArtsFirst festival, offering dozens of student performances of music, dance, and drama, most of them free and open to the public, is slated for May 2-5 in and around Harvard Square. Visit www.fas.harvard.edu/~arts. Bring a picnic …
Issue: May-June 2002
Embracing AI
“Thank you, weirdly informative robot,” wrote a student taking Harvard’s introductory computer science course this summer, after receiving help from an AI-powered avatar. The development of generative artificial intelligence, which can create and …
James W. Breyer Elected to Harvard Corporation
Venture capitalist James W. Breyer, M.B.A. '87, a partner at Accel Partners , has been elected a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University's senior governing board. In the news announcement , President Drew Faust and senior fellow Robert D. …
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City. "I was on the treadmill with everybody else," she says. "But my heart wasn't in it. I wanted to perform." Less than a …
Issue: January-February 2002
Independent Yet Integral, a Relevant "Refuge for Scholars": The Radcliffe Institute at 10
For MIT geophysicist Maria Zuber , a 2003 Radcliffe Fellowship opened her eyes to the benefits of bringing a humanistic approach to arguing for the sciences—a discovery that led her to use a quote from Maya Angelou as she made her pitch for NASA to award …