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The Business Ecosystem: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
… An interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Arbuckle professor of business administration, in HBS’s general management unit, and chair and director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. Read … RMK: Four issues strike me as key: turning ideas into enterprises; linking small and large businesses; better connecting …
Issue: September-October 2012
A Lover's Picnic
… with your lover in a Persian spring garden. Your servant offers wine in a golden bowl. Musicians and dancers amuse you. Take heed of the inscription above the canopy, patterned with its …
Issue: January-February 2009
Philosophic Fun
… The magnum opus of the late John Rawls , Conant University Professor, was A …
Issue: July-August 2013
Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2025
Old-Fashioned Warmth
… To walk into the rambling, 1849 Greek Revival farmhouse at Sunday Farm in … by a large wood-burning stove. But the doors to the rest of the house are closed; beyond them, the temperature drops … this winter, when some sources predict that fuel prices may rise as much as 50 percent. “Physiologists have measured …
Issue: January-February 2006
Education for the Public Good
… Much of the American public has become skeptical of higher education … we need to keep having collectively.” He then reprised many of the themes he has been sounding since February … is “doing what we do best.” At lunch, Richard K. Miller reprised some of the public criticisms of higher education …
This Play’s the Thing
… How to explain evolution? To honor the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species , the National Institutes of …
Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can Solar Geoengineering Help Fight Climate Change?
… geological history. But in human terms, at this early stage of climate impacts such as rising seas, rampant wildfires, and intensifying storms, the pace of change has been perceived as slow. In this … around the globe as ice sheets melt and sea level rises . What to do about the warming is dominated by …
Vincent H. Bish Jr.'s Graduate English address
… Four Lone Names “ Because it was illegal for them to practice religion, slaves would use a traditional kettle to pray. Prayers for freedom were often whispered into the kettles, which were often kept under floorboards of slave cabins to keep them …
Off the Shelf
… Reputation and Power, by Daniel Carpenter, Freed professor of government (Princeton, $29.95 paper). At a time … over government and regulation (oil spills or financial crises, anyone?), the director of Harvard’s Center for American Political …
Issue: September-October 2010
Straight-Up News
… Donald Trump held a summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland. The U.S. intelligence agencies had by then concluded that … had meddled with the American presidential election of 2016. Dan Coats, President Trump’s appointee as director … Wallace soon brought up the election. He also had a surprise in store for Putin. “A prop is always a good thing to …
Issue: May-June 2021
Educating Teachers
… Le ’15 said. “We literally cry every day.” Le was recalling the Harvard Teacher Fellows’ first collective classroom … High School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Many of the fellows had taught before—at schools in Botswana or … Le, speaking even more gently than usual, wrapped up a surprise phone call—“You’re already there? All right. I’ll see …
Issue: November-December 2016
Images That Speak
… The Griffin Museum of Photography is tucked into a leafy … in documenting New England; it is housed in a replica of an old gristmill—but any fustiness ends there. The … interview for the Leica Camera blog. “I just like the surprise of life as it is and how it reveals itself.” Meanwhile, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Governance at Issue
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted most of its … personal recollections of those governance and financial crises. Although the May 7 discussion framed these mostly … to government within the University. The sense had arisen, he said, that policies now originate within the …
Issue: July-August 2013
(Club) House Renew
… The construction in the parking lot behind the Harvard Club … Mass Pike, rather than Commonwealth Avenue—is a harbinger of improvements to come. Ordinary though it may seem, the …
Issue: January-February 2015