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Assaulting the Ramparts
… Arbuckle professor of business administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter, … and lead organizations, large and small. She also created the Advanced Leadership Initiative, which brings executives … window shows a weapon. Iron gates drop, and drawbridges rise to make it impossible to cross the moat. Legions of …
Issue: January-February 2020
“The Best Day of the Year”
… The ritual of Harvard’s Commencement exercises has remained … this as well as Jacqueline A. O’Neill, who has attended the annual event for more than 30 years and now, as … over the morning program. As Harvard’s chief protocol officer, O’Neill oversees care of the honorands (and all …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Ascent of Man
… Perhaps the last time biology had it together, at least in the … Clinton in the White House to declare the draft sequence of the human genome complete. “Without a doubt, this is the … other diseases—obesity, allergies, depression—are on the rise, less-welcome products of the technological progress …
Issue: July-August 2015
“Amazement at the Physicality of Things”
… concentrator, served as an undergraduate fellow during the preparations for the Houghton Library’s seventy-fifth … Until the 1990s, Houghton Library’s outer doors were made of steel. They made the building feel like Harvard’s Fort … library was, then, a place where undergraduates did not often tread. I entered Houghton for the first time on a …
Off the Shelf
… A Sea of Glass, by Drew Harvell (University of California, $29.95). The Blaschkas, of glass-flowers fame, first modeled marine … in late medieval Marseille and Lucca reveals the rise of the modern consumer economy, with valuables enmeshed …
Issue: July-August 2016
The High Noon of the Print Culture
… "Of all childhood pastimes, reading was my passion," writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Jf '43, in the first volume of his memoirs, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent …
What Can Be Used to Treat COVID-19?
… who runs a two-hour-and-thirty-minute marathon changing their sneakers and all of a sudden running a two-hour marathon,” said Harvard … differently.” As new variants emerge and cases rise around the country (particularly in the Northeast), …
Hammonds Named Dean of the College
… Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, will be the next dean of Harvard College, the University announced today. Hammonds, who is Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
Work in the Key of Life
… teacher,” says Cynthia Ann Piltch ’74, “I would have said, ‘There’s a better chance of the pope becoming Jewish.’ I am a scientist. The idea of … Boston College. The number of older workers is also on the rise; the study found that 75 percent of workers who are 50 …
Issue: January-February 2011
Focus on Finances
… During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024—a year of campus tumult, … circumstances. Revenues and expenses both continued to rise, again yielding an operating surplus (extending a …
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Issue: January-February 2025
“Fear and Anger Are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”
… Stevenson , J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ‘15, went straight to the point at the start of his remote Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speech … to have to change narratives.” He talked about the dramatic rise of mass incarceration in the United States—”Our prison …
Crimson Queens of the Rink
… The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 … have consistently frosted their opponents with devasting offensive flurries and a defense that has allowed just 0.83 … sole loss came against the UNH Wildcats, alma mater of veteran Crimson head coach Katey Stone, on December 14. …
Issue: March-April 2008
Survival of the Cooperative
… Paddling around the forested edges of a crocodile-infested lake in Panama, … insights into the bizarre cooperative breeding behaviors of certain tropical cuckoos. These greater anis ( Crotophaga …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Best of Bestowing
… Along with festive food and family gatherings, the holidays bring the inevitable social rituals of gift-giving. Some enjoy the art of finding or making the … known. And even for close friends and family, the question arises: What is a suitable, meaningful gift? Quickly followed …
Issue: November-December 2012
Portrait of the Artist as a Director
… The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner in the international banking firm …
Issue: September-October 2002