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Felonious Mayhem
… An ironclad rule of American business is that eras of great profit give rise to fantastic excess in the executive suites, and then someone gets sent to the …
Issue: September-October 2008
News and Notices
… Comings and Goings This spring, University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (see the partial list below). For further information, contact … and Islamic religion and cultures Ali Asani discusses “The Rise of Anti-Western Movements in the Islamic World” at the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Off the Shelf
… Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, by Debora L. Spar, Ph.D. ’90 … (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27). The author, now president of Barnard College, formerly of the Harvard Business School faculty, begins by …
Issue: September-October 2013
Off the Shelf
… “Much of the time we spend in gatherings with other people disappoints us,” warns professional facilitator Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12. After this … in China (Verso, $26.95) shows how the movement has risen on social media and taken root abroad and in cities …
Issue: September-October 2018
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
… British accent and a fading California suntan, remnants of her convent school days in London and her more recent undergraduate studies at Stanford. The fifth of the nine children of Rose and Joseph Kennedy ’12 came to …
Issue: May-June 2018
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
… Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote … in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial resources to effect them. When Hopi Hoekstra … should remain on the sidelines when public controversies arise beyond the immediate purview of higher …
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
… Could an artificial neural network connected to the brain of a living animal improve its performance on a task, such as the ability to find food? A strength of biologically based intelligence is that it performs well …
Issue: March-April 2024
Chiseled Farewells
… In Rome's placid Protestant Cemetery, the remains of poet John Keats rest in a nameless grave that … the dead, rather than to pray for their souls. But with the rise of humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, …
Issue: November-December 2002
Business School Dean Nohria Advocates “Radical Innovation”
… Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 1 ( see the Harvard Magazine profile here , with links to his … for the school. Global business has been rocked by crises, from Enron to the financial meltdown. HBS, alas, …
Commencement Week on the Web
… and reunions, visit: Harvard University Commencement Office ( www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu ): The official Commencement website includes maps, a schedule, …
Issue: May-June 2004
Returning to the Big Screen
… During the lulls between pandemic surges last year, movie-lovers … devoted to the universal themes in Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, The Maltese Falcon, Singin’ in the Rain, and among Bramante’s personal favorites, the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence …
Issue: March-April 2021
Love Stories
… The film Love Story --the tale of a Harvard boy and a … like mints during Freshman Week, and where a sharp rise in chlamydia cases in the student body last year … are perfectionist and risk averse. These qualities give rise to a romantic landscape that is bimodal: people engage …
"On the Ground" with Asylum-Seekers
… with her family. Her Iranian parents had sought asylum in the United States in the early 1980s, after the Iranian … to be “an advocate on the ground,” and is now a clinical professor of law who directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee … represented asylum-seekers whose journeys reflect world crises, from east Africa, Syria, and Afghanistan, to Central …
Issue: May-June 2022
The View from Mass. Hall
… In late July , at the beginning of Drew Faust’s fifth year as president, … from history and literature to their scientific enterprise. As I hear this, I am struck at the way, in the United …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Library Test Kitchen
… “What if you thought seriously about the library as a laboratory, as a place where people do … his “Library Test Kitchen” class. Libraries as centers of knowledge and learning have a rich history—but an … future. The digital revolution, besides changing the nature of books, is transforming the role of libraries in …
Issue: July-August 2012