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Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
Climate change is out of control, leading many people to question whether it isn’t just fossil fuels, but our entire economic system, that needs to be replaced. In this episode, Harvard Business School economist Rebecca Henderson talks through her …
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The Corporation Reconfigured The two longest-serving members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing board, have announced that they will conclude their service at the end of the academic year. Both Robert D. Reischauer ’63 (top …
Issue: January-February 2014
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
Last Saturday evening , toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the African and African-American studies department (AAAS)—an event filled with stories and music, memories of struggle and achievement, and with …
Derek Bok on Technology and Teaching
Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok, speaking at the six-hundredth anniversary of the University of St Andrews on September 14, focused squarely on the application of information technology to the classroom. Framing his remarks, Bok said it was easy to …
Divestment Debate, Overseer Slate
T he debate over whether the University should divest any investments in fossil-fuel production from the endowment, begun nearly a decade ago, has reached a new level of intensity in recent months. In the fall, faculty advocates of divestment, who had …
Issue: January-February 2020
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Solar Expanse Have 1.5 acres of flat roof space, will go solar. Borrego Solar Systems installed 2,275 solar photovoltaic panels (Harvard’s largest campus solar array) atop the Gordon Indoor Track and tennis complex, creating 591.5 kilowatts of clean- …
Issue: September-October 2012
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
R eferences to Harvard crop up everywhere: in films, in television shows, and in a great deal of contemporary literature. Hollywood filmmakers and respected novelists, from James Bridges to Zadie Smith, have returned to the same storied Cambridge sites: …
Issue: January-February 2023
Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate
The annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre—in many ways the intellectual center of Commencement week exercises, at least for College seniors and their families—this year features two particularly interesting guests. The poet will be …
Learning, and Teaching, As Peers
How can professional teachers and educational institutions integrate peer learning into their pedagogy? This was the subject of the eighth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, which convened hundreds of professors, …
Football: Harvard 23, Princeton 20 (OT)
The white-jerseyed quarterback picked the low snap from center up off the wet turf and headed left toward the end zone five yards away. At the two he was clutched by an orange-clad defender. The quarterback lunged toward the goal line and thrust out his …
“One Less Investment Banker”
On a rutted dirt road in rural Henan Province, Chung To, A.M. ’91, entered a destitute farmhouse. Before a dimly lit family altar with images of the Buddha, Mao, and departed kin, two grandparents nudged their granddaughter to greet the visitor. To …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard College’s Honor Code
Updated May 23, 3:00 P.M. where noted below. As expected, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 6 voted overwhelmingly to adopt an undergraduate honor code , effective in the fall of 2015. The code resulted from four years of work by the …
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Public Health Professor Paul Farmer, M.D. ’88, Ph.D. ’90, has been appointed the first Kolokotrones University Professor. He had been Presley professor and chair of the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and a …
Issue: March-April 2011
Funny, Weird, Macabre
New England is filled with peculiar places, and J.W. Ocker plans to find them all. The New Hampshire-based explorer—and creator of the OTIS: Odd Things I’ve Seen travel blog, podcast, and related books—gravitates to anything offbeat, haunting, or macabre. …
Issue: September-October 2019
A New Way of Being in the World
Sitting in her kitchen in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’54 is talking about animal consciousness when her two dogs, chihuahua Chapek and pug mix Kafka , begin madly snarling at each other. “What are you doing, and why?! ” she …
Issue: September-October 2019