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The Workforce: Thomas A. Kochan
… An interview with Thomas A. Kochan , Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Read the … skills, and opportunities to add value to their enterprise—and then be able to negotiate a fair sharing of the …
Issue: September-October 2012
Lessons in Dementia’s Decline?
… Public-health officials have for years been warning of a coming “gray wave” of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Today, an estimated 47 million … around the globe, even as the prevalence of dementia cases rises with increasing life expectancy (age is the greatest …
Issue: November-December 2020
Microbes Eat the Past
… Eugene ("Buzz") Aldrin and Neil Armstrong bounced along the moon's dusty surface wearing the toughest work gear in the solar system. Moon suits were beautiful cocoons of high-tech polymers, convoluted joints, rubber, and fiberglass; 25 layers thick, resilient enough to shrug off hurtling micrometeoroids and insulate against the deep …
Issue: January-February 2002
Women in the Sciences
… In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and … science: its data, shown below, demonstrate that plenty of undergraduate women study the natural sciences at … and women now outnumber men in Medical School and School of Public Health doctoral enrollments. But the tenured …
Issue: September-October 2005
Game, Match, and High Set
… Wright had a life-changing moment. He’d been invited to a professional match in Washington, D.C., that featured the legendary Rod Laver. Wright, an outstanding gymnast at … crouched, lower moving set than optimal, his body tends to rise up during his forward swing, taking his racquet upward …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Polaroid Moment
… As the business school fosters budding entrepreneurs along Western Avenue, an older-fashioned way of innovating—and the birth of Kendall Square in Cambridge … and Art” (a title taken from Land himself) abounds in surprises. There are the early discoveries of polarizing …
Issue: March-April 2017
Resolving Inflammation
… Of all the human immune system’s extraordinary capabilities, its … function after an injury or infection is probably the least well understood. The process that resolves … characterized by fever, redness, and swelling. Resolution of inflammation is controlled by a group of molecules …
The Hajj, Screened Large
… In one stunning shot, we fly just above a caravan of camels--320 camels, to be exact, joined by 660 donkeys, … goats and 500 humans in a vast, winding procession across the desert. At another point, a howling sandstorm makes us want to squeeze our eyes shut. The union of high-tech film hardware with ancient landscapes gives …
Issue: July-August 2009
Harvard Portrait: Rohini Pande
… You become interested in things you’ve seen a lot of, says Rohini Pande ; for her—growing up in India—issues of poverty and gender were “first-order.” The Kamal professor of public policy witnessed protests …
Issue: May-June 2014
“Wonder in the Bewilderness”
… The world’s big problems are often caused by narrow, reductionist solutions. Yet the whole, said Aristotle, is different from the sum of its parts. We need people with vision that crosses …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Battle for Illinois
… note: With a contentious national election approaching, the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between two Harvard Law … convincing a doorkeeper to admit the actual beneficiary of all that attention: state senator Barack Obama, J.D. '91, … Lady who attracted the movie-star whistles, the usually soft-spoken Obama greeted the crowd's cheers with a war whoop …
Issue: July-August 2004
Off the Shelf
… Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, by Stephen Burt, associate professor of English (Graywolf Press, $16, paper). Confronting Randall … to be read--Burt’s collected critical essays aim to ease the task, with introductions to poets ranging from A.R. …
Issue: July-August 2009
Cultural Chaos
… Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the … top universities, land jobs with top multinational enterprises upon graduation, achieve professional success, and …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Unlikely Writer
… One Wednesday last April, Atul Gawande was in his office at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, trying to make some … in healthcare spending. He kept getting paged when other physicians thought their patients might need surgery. … on his computer screen. He navigated through digital slices of the patient’s abdomen, squinting at the screen, then …
Issue: September-October 2009