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The Changing Nexus of Success
… What made the success of this grassroots movement possible? Certainly the leadership, effort, and energy of a few extraordinary individuals played a major role. The …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Business of Teaching
… Business School (HBS) classes are taught interactivelyby the case methodand by the professors themselves, who also do the grading, following a … is prescribed for all students; typically seven or eight professors form a teaching group for each course, with each …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Politics of Disaster
… When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to … a federal disaster area, making it eligible for a variety of assistance. In such apparently nonpolitical situations, … declaration, bar none, is actual need. The question arises in these marginal cases, when it's unclear whether to …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Queen of Versailles
… ways , David and Jackie Siegel were just trying to live the American Dream: succeed at business, own a big house, enjoy the spoils of their labor. But after achieving those dreams, they found … couple thought, only by building the largest house in all of America: a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion in …
Issue: November-December 2012
Changing of the Guard
… After almost three years of attentive service to alumni in general as Harvard … to devote more time to her three young daughters and their many activities, to her supervision of pre-service teachers pursuing state certification through …
Issue: January-February 2006
Meeting of the Faculty
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items: a discussion by Dean William C. Kirby of his Annual Letter to the faculty; and a discussion by …
The Way of Trout
… across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of fish, whose body structure allows them to capitalize on turbulence and use the water's energy to propel themselves forward by bouncing off eddies in an alternating side-to-side motion, like a …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Way of The Blockbuster
… In 2006, Chris Anderson, then editor of Wired magazine, published The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More . He argued that the …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Ocean Carbon Cycle
… Of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere, one … these natural mechanisms is important in forecasting the rise of atmospheric CO2 because even though plants and … controlled by the ocean's acidity. The ocean's acidity does rise with increased CO2, but the slow pace of ocean …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Curse of Adonis
… When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. … in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic. Certainly not the kind of thing that a Harvard faculty member would do," … faculty pump iron at gyms, along with Pope and millions of others across the country. "There's been a drastic …
"Hypochondria of the Heart"
… In 1688 a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, identified a new medical syndrome, nostalgia : "the sad mood originating from the desire for return to one's native land." Various displaced Swiss of the seventeenth century suffered from the …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Sanctity of the Classroom, Continued
… There have been further developments since an early-November Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) discussion of previously … the work done in the classroom) a collective enterprise, not a solitary one—every bit as subject to open …
“The Duties of Imagination”
… College seniors and their families convened in Sanders Theatre for the 229th Phi … purely celebratory events yet to come. This year’s edition of the PBK exercises ( read the program here), the first … to end our conversation at that point and trying to get a rise out of my parents, I said, “Mom, Dad. Be sure to watch …
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Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
… I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” … Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to … a different opinion.” As founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner —a newspaper primarily for and about …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Senior Celebrants of 2009
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Frances Pass Addelson ’30, 100, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, … L ’33, 100, of Kennebunk, Maine. Both were recognized at the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Walter H. Morris …
Issue: July-August 2009