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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
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 …
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 …
Celebrating Cinema
Four nights a week , anyone can saunter down to the lowest level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, buy a ticket, and slide into a cushy seat at the Harvard Film Archive’s (HFA) cinémathèque to view “rare and scholarly works of art, films that …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Best of Times…
Harvard’s annual financial report, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 (released in late October), was full of good tidings: operating revenue up 5.6 percent (more than a quarter-billion dollars), to nearly $4.8 billion; operating expenses up 5.3 …
Issue: January-February 2017
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
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 …
The Arts as Essential Goods
“No man is an island; every book is a world.” The motto, adapted from John Donne, appears on a weathered sign for the ailing bookshop owned by the irascible A.J. Fikry. The depressive air is no mistake. Novelist Gabrielle Zevin ’00 wrote The Storied Life …
Issue: July-August 2020
Endowments: The Specter of Taxation
After a year in which President Drew Faust and fellow university leaders successfully persuaded members of Congress to sustain federal funding for scientific research—in opposition to the Trump administration’s budget outline—they now find the tax …
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. …
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
Leslie Jamison ’04 spent the summer after her freshman year at home in Los Angeles with her jaw wired shut. A 20-foot fall from a vine in Costa Rica broke her joint hinge; as she healed after surgery, the wire held her bones in place. For two months, she …
Issue: March-April 2025
Theater, Dance, and Media's "Next Act"
Through the door of Martin Puchner’s office in Farkas Hall, bursts of clapping, shouts, and laughter erupt from the class in session next door: “What’s So Funny? Introduction to Improvisational Comedy.” Some 140 students came to the course’s first …
Issue: May-June 2016
Making America Competitive Again
Racial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, and a failing public education system are just a few of the many serious problems the United States government can’t seem to fix. Political gridlock, the cause, is so deep-set that some business leaders worry it …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Director’s Half-Decade
With The Harvard Campaign concluded and a new University president in office, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has pivoted to take on new challenges and priorities. The organization is charged with engaging a wildly diverse cohort of 371,000 alumni …
Issue: May-June 2019
“No more pencils, no more books…”
Even in elementary school, one suspects, the incursion of technology—tablets, laptops, smartphones—has now rendered all but obsolete students’ venerable end-of-year ditty: “No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers’ dirty looks….” In the College …
Issue: May-June 2019