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… reform (September-October, page 37) is an exemplary display of the weaknesses of the charter-led education “reform” … is treating schools as though they were free-market enterprises, gambling with children’s education as an acceptable …
Issue: November-December 2016
Fighting for Veterans, Learning the Law
… The letter arrived right on time—and for Wilson Ausmer Jr., … Army Reserves, was in Afghanistan, serving his third tour of duty overseas. The decorated soldier had already paid a … It also stated that he had to respond within 120 days of receipt. Ausmer wouldn’t return home for another five …
Issue: March-April 2016
Christopher Cerf: Sound and Image
… Multimedia creator Christopher Cerf ’63 ( profiled in the July-August issue of the magazine ) has been an important force in educational …
Issue: July-August 2011
Dean Sarah Whiting Meets the Design School Community
… Graduate School of Design (GSD) dean Sarah Whiting, newly arrived this past summer , and Noyes professor of architectural theory K. Michael Hays —who has known the dean for decades, … taught but now has returned as leader of the whole enterprise. “There isn’t one dominant paradigm” Hays noted that …
Off the Shelf
… The Annotated Little Women , by Louisa May Alcott, edited by … more than you imagined anyone could know in hundreds of notes and illustrations (from Norman Rockwell to … University Press, $21 paper). At a time of migration crises and demonizing others, this twenty-fifth-anniversary …
Issue: March-April 2016
A Satisfying Season
… A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's … and an unheralded tailback, Ryan Tyler '06, provided a surprise bonus. Standing in for the reinjured Palazzo, Tyler …
Issue: January-February 2003
What Does It Mean To Be a Corporate Citizen?
… “ There could really be no more important discussion than the one we are having today,” said Kissel professor of law David Wilkins last Thursday, introducing a … change is perhaps the biggest and best-known driver of the rise in ESG investing, but the movement encompasses a vast …
From the Archives: Sweet Auburn
… The essay that follows, a whimsical rumination on America’s … it, former managing editor Christopher Reed—a great lover of plants—was in his early thirties, and living in Cambridge … ~The Editors I always supposed that the worthy dead of Cambridge were conveyed to the Mount Auburn Cemetery, …
Disruptive Genius
… old, Clayton Christensen started a company with a few MIT professors called Ceramics Process Systems Corporation. “I was the business guy,” he explains. “We were making new products … business administration, had enjoyed a close-up view of the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a …
Issue: July-August 2014
The Dalai Lama Visits to Speak—and Plant a Tree
… His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on April 30, as the guest of the Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The visit had been so eagerly anticipated that …
Off the Shelf
… Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian , by Richard Aldous (W.W. Norton, … have you yearning for administrations past, this biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38, JF ’43—historian, faculty member, and author, in many senses, of the Camelot version of the Kennedy presidency—may fit the …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Designer Refines
… in white shirts for women, discusses how she handles the details on a prototype shirt she is developing. … width:600] … Katiti Kirondé ’79 on the details of fashion … Katiti Kirondé ’79 on the details of fashion … 1526 … 1505 … A Designer Refines … article …
Centennial Medalists
… The 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 2013
Kennedy School Professor, Two Alumnae Receive the National Humanities Medal
… scientist Robert Putnam , former dean and now Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, whose works include the bestseller Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of …