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Bullish on Private Colleges
… In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection … part by putting forth an educator’s take on business enterprises. Although the essays were conceived separately, both …
Issue: November-December 2011
News from the HAA
… Election Winners Members of the Board of Overseers have elected higher-education … Harvey ’71, M.B.A. ’74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75. …
Should AI Be Scaled Down?
… A driving force of the competition between AI companies is the belief that … to emerge almost by accident,” Schwarz says, might also arise in smaller models “if you found a way of more directly …
Malls on the Median
… pay cash for a vintage Eames chair. It may sound like another day at the mall, but there is not a credit card or cash … cars stopped at traffic lights, and in the vast vacant lots of this sprawling city. Sidewalk sale: clothing hung out not … front lawns into commercial spaces and attracting clientele of varying classes and ethnicities, street vending and yard …
Issue: March-April 2002
Arts and Sciences Aims
… The new annual letter of Dean Jeremy R. Knowles to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), disseminated in February ( … that the endowment payout for the next fiscal year will rise only 2 percent, and perhaps by a like amount in …
Issue: March-April 2002
At Medical School, Berwick Tells of Patient’s Death
… Of the thousands of patients the doctors graduating from Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
Seeing and Observing
… Drawing on Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova ’05—the proprietor of Scientific American’ s “Literally Psyched” column, now a … reflecting in his black-framed glasses. I remember the rise and fall of his voice as the suspense mounted beyond …
Issue: March-April 2013
Harvard School of Public Health Unveils $450-Million Capital Campaign
… Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) launched its $450-million capital campaign this week, the first school to do so following the unveiling of the … to gun violence and suicide; poverty and humanitarian crises—preventable injuries and deaths across the globe; and …
The Libraries’ Rocky Transition
… The evolving information landscape makes change in Harvard … To ready the organization for the challenges of the digital and online era (pursuant to plans announced … will be shared. The aim is both to reduce duplication of effort across what had been 73 separate libraries, and to …
Issue: May-June 2012
Radical Living
… There’s nothing superfluous about Canterbury Shaker Village. That’s just the way members of the separatist Christian sect who lived on this New … a communal agrarian utopia: “Heaven on Earth.” First to rise was the Meeting House. There, devotees eschewed …
Issue: September-October 2017
Addressing a Decline in Humanities Enrollment
… Enrollment in the humanities is down at Harvard College—and nationally, the number of bachelor’s degrees in the field has fallen by half from 1966 to 2010, from 14 percent to 7 percent of all degrees taken. The news media periodically highlight …
News in Brief
… Provost Manning On August 15, less than two weeks after the Corporation removed “interim” from his title, President … in Massachusetts Hall is in place through the planned end of Garber’s service in June 2027. Alongside the provost’s … new home for that large department, scheduled to rise behind Littauer Center—may begin this fall, with …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Borrows $2.5 Billion: The Costs and Rationale
… Moving promptly to tap the credit markets for additional financial resources--as … bonds on December 10 (up from an initial projection of $600 million), Bloomberg also reported. Size and … income distributed from working-capital investments has risen more than income distributions from the endowment (an …
"A New Economic Reality"
… The university’s financial gap, occasioned by the projected 30 percent decline in the value of endowment assets this fiscal year, has now been … that the flow of operating funds from the endowment would rise by about 15 percent for fiscal year 2010—a $200-million …
Issue: May-June 2009
When Field Work Means Putting Your Life on the Line
… Kit Parker is a professor of bioengineering. But right now, Harvard's Cabot associate … science is serving as a U.S. Army major in Afghanistan with the 10 th Mountain Division . His job is to participate in …