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Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity
What are the ingredients of a healthy, inclusive society—one that offers its citizens opportunity, happiness, and a positive quality of life? According to Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, models of human development based on economic …
Issue: November-December 2015
Giants
B oston brahmin. The towering Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, concludes his new collection of essays (see Open Book ) with an appendix containing his Memorial Minutes for two fellow towering Harvard historians. …
Issue: March-April 2020
Tackling Football Trauma
A crushed nose , a snapped collarbone, a finger jabbed in an eye that drew blood: these were the minor injuries sustained at 1894’s brutal rendition of the Harvard-Yale football game. One tackle took a blow to the head so hard, his teammates had to point …
Issue: July-August 2015
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Ethics Education As a frequent speaker on business ethics, I was eager to read “Making Organizations Moral,” along with its subtitle “Ethics Elevated” (November-December 2014). But I was quickly disappointed as I read Professor Max Bazerman’s comment that …
Issue: January-February 2015
The “Little Object That Speaks Loudly”
Broken wine bottles, clay tobacco pipes, and fancy baubles—including, most recently, a pair of silver-alloy cufflinks: these are the small pieces of life at early Harvard that archaeologists have dug up during the last decade. Though archival accounts …
On Your Honor
When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted last May to adopt an undergraduate honor code , in the wake of the largest recent case of student misconduct on an examination , debate swirled around implementation: how, exactly, students would affirm …
Academic Harvard: The Inaugural Symposiums
Visiting dignitaries from other colleges and universities, and friends of Harvard present for the occasion, were served a continental breakfast-cum-edification at “A Taste of Harvard,” under the tent on the Science Center Plaza: fuel plus exhibitions on …
Gift Funds Neuroscience Research into Medical Marijuana
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has received a $500,000 gift that funds their new Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) Program. The donation, announced on October 6, comes from …
Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine and Robert E. Rubin '60, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc. and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. For …
Cinema with Gravitas
It was not much of a house at all: just a simple shack, with a dirt floor and ramshackle walls. But its owner, a Haitian sugarcane worker in the Dominican Republic, graciously let in the strangers who’d knocked at his door, offering them respite from the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Brevia
Green Goals A new task force, appointed by President Drew Faust on February 27, will examine Harvard’s greenhouse-gas emissions and recommend University goals for reducing them; it is to report by the end of the academic year. Brooks professor of …
Issue: May-June 2008
Brevia
2+2 = M.B.A. Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched a deferred-admissions program for future M.B.A. candidates, aiming to attract liberal-arts majors in science, government, or other fields who might not have considered such a degree. Undergraduates …
Issue: November-December 2007
Abreu, Menino, Pagels, and Oprah: The Honorands
During the Morning Exercises of the 362nd Commencement, on May 30, Harvard will confer honorary degrees on six men and three women, the University reports —among them a preeminent environmental economist, a public-health leader, a long-serving mayor, a …
Raising the Ante
In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and Swarthmore among them—said they would replace loans with grant aid. (All such programs are tracked at the Project on Student Debt, …
Issue: March-April 2008
Adams House Renewal Begins
On June 3 , construction began on the renewal of Adams House, marking the start of a project slated to take place in three phases spanning four years , to be completed by August 2023. Adams is the sixth House to be renewed under a multi-decade renewal …