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The Dark History Behind Chocolate
… begins her lecture with a warning that might seem out of place at first in a course all about chocolate, one of the most delicious and beloved substances in the world. … School enrollees (some joining via Zoom), don’t seem surprised. It’s week nine of the semester, and in Martin’s …
A Climate Refugee Crisis in the Offing
… Rising temperatures have the potential to lead to large-scale, famine-induced … migrations from equatorial countries: a series of humanitarian disasters, triggered as climate refugees … in some connection with their environment,” says the professor of the practice of health and human rights at the …
Issue: November-December 2020
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
Voting Results
… Voting Results The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Issue: July-August 2011
Harvard College Names New Heads of Houses
… Danoff dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana today announced five new sets of faculty deans, the term for heads of the undergraduate Houses that the College adopted in 2016 . …
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
Harvard College Announces Admissions, Term Bill
… College announced today that 2,023 students have been offered admission to the class of 2018 ( including the 992 previously notified … news release here. … Admissions rate 5.9 percent; term bill rises to $58,607 … Harvard College class of 2018 admissions …
Exact Changes
… In 2002—the year the Argentine peso collapsed, eliminating half the … Naomi Yang ’86 flew to neighboring Brazil to play the rest of the dates. The trip was a risk; Brazil’s economy was also … get paid. But they loved Brazilian music, they’d dreamed of seeing the country, and the promoter who invited them …
Issue: March-April 2016
Where Decisionmaking Is Measured
… The split second in which a decision occurs gives rise to a … immediate surroundings influence the decision? The moment of decision has proven an elusive object of study, partly …
Philosophic Fun
… The magnum opus of the late John Rawls , Conant University Professor, was A …
Issue: July-August 2013
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
… host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. A few early … May 26, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Paine Hall for a read-through of selections from The Messiah . (Free; registration is not … and Latin American Alumni Reunion Reception Enjoy plenty of good networking, company, fun, and some food on Saturday, …
Issue: May-June 2018
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 Leap of Faith, and a Prayer Answered
… In Busia, Uganda, a dusty, gritty, border town of 50,000, the main drag is lined with hotels that cater to truckers. At many of these, more than lodging is provided. The HIV infection …
Issue: November-December 2009
Integrity Has Its Price
… a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in the … is that it requires trusting a stranger. Yet thousands of trust-based transactions occur daily between … customers—on the auction website eBay. Trust on eBay arises from the same source as it does at the corner store …
Issue: July-August 2003
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 …