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Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
… medicine at patients’ expense? According to associate professor of health care policy and medicine Zirui Song and other Harvard researchers, patients in hospitals owned by … the acquired entity’s own infrastructure, its buildings and machines and land are used as the collateral for that debt,” …
Issue: May-June 2024
"Two Radically Different Worlds"
… In his annual dean’s report, released to colleagues for the year’s second Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 27, Michael D. … year 2008 to $137.2 million last year; they are expected to rise some $10 million more this year, presumably expanding …
The Legal Landscape for Climate Change
… What is the U.S. legal landscape for addressing climate change? Cox professor of law Jody Freeman provided an overview of the dynamics …
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
Debating Divestment
… Faculty advocates of divesting Harvard investments in the production, distribution, and combustion of fossil fuels … the summer melt season, which in turn constrained sea level rise. This is no longer the case. Perhaps more striking, …
Harvard Invests in MIT’s The Engine
… MIT-created venture firm The Engine, which aims to provide capital required to tackle … committed as a limited partner after launching the enterprise in October 2016 . Rather than seeking to fund … time and patient capital to commercialize—in a range of sectors including biotechnology, robotics, manufacturing, …
Not Just “Office Helpers”
… In an era of TMI, one may hesitate to welcome the 881-page Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton, … and managing of texts has long been a collaborative enterprise; the work of secretaries, often ignored as merely …
Issue: May-June 2021
Changes at the Tap
… If “fresh hot dog” sounds like an oxymoron, taste the one at Green Street. It’s as close to the tender pig as … is that gritty vibrancy, that rare and lively mingling of local folks, artists, and pols of all sizes, shapes, and colors that made the old grill so …
Issue: July-August 2007
The Benton Gospels
… More than a century and a half ago, the Reverend George Benton, lately an Episcopal missionary on the island of Crete, returned to the United States. In his baggage was … even then. In succeeding decades, the tome moved in and out of private collections until it was acquired last year by …
Issue: March-April 2018
Cambridge 02138
… Crime and Incarceration The article about Elizabeth Hinton ( “Color and … walked into numerous prisons in California, which has one of the world’s largest prison systems. Each time I step into … (and advertising revenues) underpin this nonprofit enterprise; the remaining operating deficit is funded by a …
Issue: November-December 2019
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
… During her first week of teaching at Harvard, the flutist Claire Chase was arrested while blocking traffic … program. The demonstration was organized by and mostly comprised faculty members from the history department; having a …
Issue: May-June 2018
Timely Recovery
… (HMC) reported a 7.3 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. The endowment’s value … stimulus programs prompted sharp recoveries), HMC’s rate of return, which is net of all investment expenses, actually … Until then, the factors contributing to the 2.4 percent rise in the endowment’s value cannot be known exactly. But a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
… In 2000, professor of pediatrics Charles Nelson went on a trip that would change the course of his life—and the lives of dozens of others. As …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
… ‘‘Everyday Briefs for the Everyday Hero.” This advertising tagline for … underwear won an industry award, making it Seth Taranoff’s greatest achievement, one he is certain is the first … wasn’t easy. But Purkert’s ability to do so didn’t surprise Boylston professor of oratory and rhetoric Jorie …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Moral Case
… Much of the debate over the fate of the Guantánamo detainees has involved legal …
Issue: January-February 2009