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Measuring Impact in the “Missing Middle”
… and marketing blandishments), willing shoppers choose the products and services they want, and companies measure their sales, cash flow, profits, and return on capital—financial metrics that managers … founded in 1999, lends to small agricultural enterprises—for example, Latin American coffee cooperatives—that …
Issue: September-October 2015
The New Ancient Trend in Medicine
… In the 1950s American Cancer Society had a Committee on … Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer management," superseded by one on "questionable … methods." The names indicate a gradual acceptance of the unconventional; today the cancer society has a …
Issue: March-April 2002
“In the Bee-Loud Glade”
… us for Borders closing,” jokes Brian Buckley ’90, owner of the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, … poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” are hard to miss: I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin …
Issue: November-December 2011
![Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”](https://www.harvardmagazine.com//sites/default/files/styles/topic_teaser/public/img/article/0812/vitaso12.jpg.webp?itok=SN8pVx4y "Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library")
Vita: Warren Brookes
… industrial societies. As if from “a chrysalis,” the world was emerging from a reality constrained by … preface that The Economy in Mind (1982) was “the work not of an economist but of a journalist.” But in a larger sense, … reverence for entrepreneurialism coincided with the rise of Reaganomics and positioned him as an outspoken fount …
Issue: September-October 2012
Faculty Honors, and a Farewell
… During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 2, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) bid farewell: to President …
Harvard Announces Salary, Hiring Freezes and Other Spending Cuts
… Breaking News: In a message headlined “Economic Impact of COVID-19,” President Lawrence S. Bacow—joined by Provost … and Executive Vice President Katie Lapp—just notified the community that “we need to take some actions immediately … workers continue to be paid .) FAS is a $1.6 billion enterprise, but it operates on tight enough margins that the …
Cambridge 02138
… THE CENTER OF THE WORLD The Middle East and western Asia are … are among our most motivated students. Not only did they rise out of poverty, but they and their families gained a … purposes would be reduced (and actual costs would rise, according to treasurer D. Ronald Daniel's letter). …
Issue: January-February 2005
Cambridge 02138
… 2014). But I was quickly disappointed as I read Professor Max Bazerman’s comment that “My job is not about … is what got Jeffrey Skilling [former CEO of Enron] and other Harvard Business School (HBS) alums in a lot of … am thinking of such historians as William H. McNeill ( The Rise of the West , and with his son John R. McNeill, The …
Issue: January-February 2015
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
… A map is not merely an image of the earth, precisely plotted and filed as a scientific … dimensions. Maps from the eighteenth century aided those profiting from the Atlantic slave trade; twentieth-century …
Play at the Plate
… Look at the batter as he steps into the box—where does he stand? Far … get him on the outside corner; too close, we’ll back him off, bust him on the fists. If he edges up toward the front … It’s about creating false expectations, because a surprised hitter, fielder, or runner is frequently a beaten one. …
Issue: July-August 2009
Harvard Reports a Significant Surplus
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended … budget surplus, nearly $200 million—during a period of continued U.S. economic growth and at the end of the … noted, expenses for operating and occupying buildings has risen, along with the largest capital-spending program in …
Sexy Struts
… Start with a stance that points the heel of one foot toward the middle of the other. Stand … Interest in “hot fun” as well as hot clothes seems on the rise at Harvard. Katiti Kirondé ’79, a senior designer at an …
Issue: May-June 2007
Up in the Air and Killing
… Here on the volleyball court we find deceit. Right now the ball is … Though Jellin nods in seeming acquiescence, instead she lofts the ball above Hart to the far sideline, where … the net onto the hardwood floor. Point to Harvard. Two of the opponents' blockers, fixated on stopping Hart, had …
How the Endowment Distribution Is Set
… The news that the value of the Harvard endowment declined by … support financial aid, professorships, and so on—have risen to even larger sums annually. This example puts those … it followed a year in which the endowment distribution had risen, because the percentage-point change in the funds they …
Kit Parker Uncovers Mechanics of Brain Injuries
… Cabot associate professor in applied science Kevin "Kit" Parker and a team of fellow Harvard bioengineers have announced the discovery of precisely how traumatic head injuries …