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“Insider Luck”
The compensation of top American corporate executives has soared during the past 15 years. Measured in 2005 dollars, the average annual compensation of the CEOs of the large companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 almost tripled from 1992 to 2005, growing …
Issue: March-April 2007
Football: Harvard 45-Princeton 13
When Andy Aurich was introduced last winter as the new Thomas Stephenson family head coach for Harvard football, there was an undercurrent of grumbling, not only that he had never been a head coach before, but perhaps even more about his pedigree: Aurich …
Faust Names Grosz Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
Harvard president-elect Drew Gilpin Faust made her first decanal appointment today, naming computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins professor of natural sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interim …
Harvard Professor Scott Kominers on NFTs and Brands
In the fifteenth century, Gutenberg’s press revolutionized the process of distributing written text. Today, we have non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Like the printing press, NFTs have the ability to fundamentally change the spread of information. Yet, while …
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, and Emmanuelle Charpentier Share Chemistry Nobel
The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded jointly this morning to Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, and Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, of the University of California, Berkeley, for their development …
Accelerating Medical Research
Netflix has thrived in part because it knows what movies subscribers have watched—and which films similar viewers have enjoyed. Is there an analogy to this powerful recommendation protocol applicable to medicine? Nelson professor of biomedical informatics …
Issue: January-February 2019
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, approved in 2021 (see …
Issue: September-October 2022
Pete Seeger ’40 Sings for Occupy Wall Street
Pete Seeger '40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and political activist, gave a concert in Manhattan Friday evening at Symphony Space, at 95th and Broadway, along with Arlo Guthrie and others. Then, as …
Health Benefits.2016
Last fall , when the University announced the introduction of long-rumored annual deductibles and coinsurance for certain health-insurance costs effective in 2015 , some of the affected employees (faculty and nonunionized staff members, plus postdoctoral …
Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism, Arab Spring
Islamophobia is a problem in the United States, and anti-Americanism is a problem in the Arab world. Those conflicting realities were the idea behind a series of gifts by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Abdul-aziz Alsaud to six universities, …
What Makes Teams Tick
Many of the most pressing issues of our time—climate change, economic inequality, human rights—require interdisciplinary solutions. Yet facilitating collaboration among individuals from disparate fields can often be challenging. A recent study on what …
Issue: July-August 2016
Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
Education experts and political leaders from across the country gathered at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on Tuesday for the first convening of a new initiative that seeks to combat inequality in American K-12 education. The project, …
Weighing In
The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even ideological. On March 12, in the Sunday Telegraph , Tisch professor of history Niall Ferguson—no left-wing …
Issue: May-June 2006
A Borrower Be
In late 2008 , at the depths of the financial crisis, the University borrowed $2.5 billion, expensively (at tax-exempt and taxable interest rates of 5.4 percent and 5.8 percent) to shore up its liquidity and provide flexibility within the endowment, and …
Issue: November-December 2015
At 75, Murray Dewart Reflects on His Career as a Sculptor
Murray Dewart ’70, a Boston-raised sculptor, was born into a family of three generations of clergymen but always knew he wanted to be an artist. It wasn’t until he found the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts during his junior year at Harvard and threw …
Issue: March-April 2024