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Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Faculty Perspectives
… A panel of Harvard economists discussed causes of the recent economic crisis, historical comparisons, various … Drew Faust on October 12 in Sanders Theatre. The event reprised a 2008 panel (see also part two of a report on that …
Sharing the Wealth
… Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent … fiscal years 2008 through 2010. The base distribution would rise 4 percent annually; the incremental distribution would …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Great Red Enigma
… is hard to overlook. Prominently displayed on every poster of the solar system, that churning storm has been visible for … moons and that big, red dot. Yet the processes that gave rise to the storm and have kept it spinning all this time …
Issue: March-April 2021
Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … Neil L. Rudenstine and Robert E. Rubin '60, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc. and former U.S. …
The Art of the Quilt
… In the summer of 1971, visitors to the Whitney Museum of … look at, and say, ‘That’s pretty nice.’ ” … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … 44655 … Quilts are …
Issue: May-June 2014
“The Value of Noticing”
… “You have stood up and stood out,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2017 in the opening frame of her May 23 Baccalaureate address. “The value of being …
Echoes of the Central Valley
… Young fiction writers are often encouraged to “write what you know.” That often yields stories that seem overly autobiographical, yet juiced by primary experience. The work is especially moving when the writer is talented …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Mindfulness Chronicles
… Harvard, Ellen Langer and her colleagues piled two groups of men in their seventies and eighties into vans, drove them two hours … street to incapacitation.” What she found, however, surprised even her own team of researchers. Before and after the …
Issue: September-October 2010
Business for the Other Billions
… State—a two-hour drive, when roads are passable, northeast of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous … “It’s crazy.” But despite its ambitions, their modest enterprise, Tomato Jos ( www.tomatojos.net ), is not crazy. Nor …
Issue: September-October 2015
Cambridge 02138
… highlighting “ Safe Streets ” (March-April, page 24) and the need to improve urban road design, and share Max … landscape worth exploring further: the rising popularity of electric bikes (e-bikes), and the hazards to both kids … about urban road safety. Fatal traffic crashes continue to rise in many American cities. In Washington, D.C., for …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Applied Wisdom of the Heartland
… In their very origins, public institutions like the University of Michigan (UM), and their land-grant cousins, are perhaps … as a first responder,” addressing priorities as they arise on the ground. In that context, he said, bringing the …
The Language of Movement
… I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul … gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the … creators turned to Kuperman Brothers—the eponymous enterprise of Rick ’11 and Jeff: choreographers and directors with …
Issue: January-February 2020
On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Emergency
… medicine—caring for climbers with altitude sickness in the Himalayas or victims of the tsunami disaster in Japan— Stuart Harris is a … those on the front lines as the number of coronavirus cases rises over the coming days and weeks. On Monday, the same …
Keeping the Vibes
… How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation Services (APS) unit in the Loeb Music … spending this money to preserve?’ ” That question doesn’t arise with regard to the rare, obscure, and often …
Issue: May-June 2007
Stories of the Voiceless
… The initiative for the science of the human past was a dream made possible when, in 2002, Goelet professor of medieval history Michael McCormick won a $1.5 …
Issue: July-August 2009