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Evoo Evolves
… Impressive for its promotion of high-tech global innovation, Kendall Square is no one’s idea of a cozy neighborhood. Nor is it known for its vibrant … buildings offer living and sleeping quarters, but their residents rarely seem to be out on the streets at …
Issue: November-December 2011
Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?
… Apparently so, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Their data suggest that people instinctively regulate their coffee intake in order to experience the optimal effects of …
Issue: March-April 2015
Ph.D. Policy
… When she became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last July, it was something of a …
Issue: January-February 2006
To Sit at the Welcome Table
… endures because it changes. In its most recent century, one of the ways it has changed most dramatically is its ever wider inclusion of students and faculty from groups who were for many years …
Issue: July-August 2014
“Feminism, Now and Then”
… Asked to comment on the current state of feminism for a Radcliffe Day panel … and author Susan Faludi ’81, RI ’09, said the attitude of young women today might be aptly described as “feminism …
Pauline Mutumwinka: “Down the Rabbit Hole”
… In her Harvard oration , one of four student speeches given as part of the Class Day ceremony, Pauline Mutumwinka ’12 compared …
Aftershocks
… In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in … governance and other matters of substance continued to arise, suggesting that University affairs remain in an … the issue on May 3, suggesting that the apprehensions had arisen as a result of a consultant’s survey he had …
Issue: July-August 2005
Melissa Dell
… Economics professor Melissa Dell has studied everything from … she studies countries her discipline once ignored: “In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions … On a College internship in Peru, Dell worked on microfinance, making small loans to women selling snacks on the …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard Business School’s Bold Agenda
… Srikant M. Datar became eleventh dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) on January 1, 2021 , under … First, he assumed his new responsibilities in the middle of the academic year, rather than at its outset, … so is fully aligned with the economic role of private enterprise. Equally important, he continued, “We need to develop …
Reflections on a River
… , 15 UMass Lowell seniors, graduation day in sight, push off from the city’s Bellegarde Boathouse for an afternoon of kayaking … takes between two and four hours. “People are often surprised when they get out on the water that the river’s as …
Issue: July-August 2017
Painter, Anew
… every venerable institution— Harvard doctorate, Princeton professor emerita, Guggenheim fellowship, to name just a … herself, for whom a whirlwind press tour has followed the publication of her bracingly honest memoir, Old in Art School, this …
Issue: September-October 2018
Sustaining a “Delicate Experiment”
… Chapman professor of business administration Nitin Nohria was … his speeches and writings appear below: In his speech on the occasion of his appointment, Nohria spoke about the kind … both academics and enlightened business leaders, saw the rise of the large corporation as a profound challenge to the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Portrait: Elizabeth Hinton
… Elizabeth Hinton’s fascination with the past started early. “As a little girl, I used to ask my … what I called then ‘the olden times.’” One central piece of family history concerned their decision to leave Georgia … 1940s. One night, a white man sat down far to the rear of an otherwise empty bus, and when Hinton’s grandfather …
Issue: March-April 2017
A Dispatch from Chengdu
… Lee , M.T.S. ’02, forwarded this personal account of survivors coping with the aftermath of the traumatic earthquake in China, and … new mothers here want to call their babies 'earthquake surprise.' I might as well do the same," she adds. The Chinese …
Harvard Endowment Increases 5.7 Percent to $39.2 Billion
… Highlights for fiscal 2018: •The endowment’s value was $39.2 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2018—an … schools to plan for per-unit endowment distributions to rise between 2.5 percent and 4.5 percent annually, starting …