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A Bold Business Agenda
Srikant Datar had to overcome two disadvantages upon assuming his responsibilities as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)on January 1, 2021: taking office in the middle of an academic year, and amid the pandemic. He did so by drawing on all his …
Issue: March-April 2022
At Home with Harvard: Harvard History through a New Lens
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
Social Media Use and Adult Depression
Parenting teenagers in 2022 generally entails worrying about their use of platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok; multiple studies point to links between social-media use and anxiety and depression among children and adolescents. Yet a new …
Issue: March-April 2022
Prospective Overseers State Their Views
In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year — Harvard Magazine is …
Human and Machine Intelligence
Harvard celebrated the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence on Thursday afternoon with a whirlwind of performance art, presentations, and panel discussions centered on the institute’s mission: elucidating …
Harvard Square's Best
During the worst early days of the pandemic in Massachusetts, the Harvard Square Business Association sent drones overhead to capture the ghost-town feel of the streets. The result was a haunting video of shuttered stores and cleared roads, devoid of …
Issue: September-October 2021
FAS Details Debt, Financial Challenges
In preparation for a faculty meeting on December 9, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith released an " FAQ About the Endowment " on December 5. It follows up and considerably extends the discussion and questions raised at the November …
Thank You For Reading
Harvard Magazine , founded by alumni, continues to operate as an entirely independent, journalistic nonprofit enterprise devoted to serving readers, keeping you connected with six print issues annually and much additional online reporting on our …
To the Rescue
On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast walls that litter the city. An Afghan activist and artist, Sharifi had …
Issue: January-February 2023
Corporation member quits
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14 (see “ I can no longer support the president ,” September-October 2005). Also presented here, the University's official statement [external link] of July 28 and the statements …
Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise will Retire in June
Nichols Family director of athletics Robert L. Scalise will retire at the end of this academic year, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Claudine Gay wrote in a message to the FAS community today. The announcement comes during a comprehensive …
Update: Harvard Encampment Ends
UPDATE: May 20, 11:45 A.M. On Friday , May 17, Harvard College placed 23 students on multi-semester probation and suspended five students for their involvement in the Yard encampment , according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). The group says …
The Context: The Gig Economy and the Future of Work
This is the eighth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. The future of the gig economy will likely be put on the …
The Causes of Long COVID
Although Americans have survived more than 93 million cases of COVID-19, the disease is not yet fully understood. And for an estimated 10 to 30 percent of those afflicted, the unanswered questions are even more vexing, because their recovery has not been …
Issue: September-October 2022
The Future of Tuberculosis
Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one in 10 …