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Company Size Matters
… before moving to Harvard in 2009, she spent many years as the Eastman Kodak professor of management at MIT’s Sloan School. It was, after … smart business practice—it involves employees in the enterprise of innovation. “Firms that have goals that are …
Issue: January-February 2015
At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
“Find Your Way to Heal This World”
… on campus instructed to “watch in your room/suite but…not gather in groups to watch”—dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana urged students to “commit … yourself, your families, your friends, and the well-being of thousands of people here at Harvard and in our …
How They Built Houses in Japan
… In 1979, to commemorate 20 years of partnership between the sister cities of Boston and Kyoto, 43 enormous crates arrived at the …
Issue: September-October 2008
Yesterday's News
… 1924 The Bulletin's editors report themselves glad "to record … his statue from the Delta next to Memorial Hall (a post "of doubtful prominence"), to the west side of University Hall. 1929 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Issue: May-June 2004
Absurdist Anticlimaxes
… The more rain-soaked and mud-splattered, less charitable, part of me wants to get the anticlimax over with. Tonight was … with the other House contingents on a narrow path in front of Wigglesworth for about an hour. I was also supposed to …
Critical Mass, and World-Class
… Cherry A. Murray , the physicist who became its dean on July 1, already knows her aspirations for Harvard’s young School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS): to reach … it is now engaged (see graphic) “an excellent, coherent set of synergistic disciplines.” Now the new dean—currently …
Issue: November-December 2009
“Water Polo Is Home”
… Later today , the Harvard men’s water polo team will square off in the NCAA final four against top-seeded University of Southern California. Competing in Berkeley, after winning …
Notice to Readers
… Due to a printer error , some copies of the May-June issue were mailed without the annual … area readers will receive a corrected, complete copy of the magazine in the mail soon. Download the missing …
Unsound Sleep
… The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 survey found that 75 percent of American adults experience symptoms of a sleep problem at … Sleep clinics like Sleep Health Centers, a for-profit enterprise whose medical director, David P. White, supervises six …
Issue: July-August 2005
Finishing Kick
… Crimson reporter while splashing along Memorial Drive on the wet Marathon Monday before he took office as Harvard’s leader in 2018. He no longer tests his … With permitting in place for the first phase of the enterprise research campus —a nearly million-square-foot …
Words to Live By
… a typical year, College seniors would have walked back to their Houses to receive their diplomas following Thursday … degree-holders would have returned to the graduate and professional school campuses to receive theirs. But this … The culture and tenure of people in those buildings surprised me. The way they talked about Sam Walton surprised me. …
Alternatives to Policing
… Amid the protests last summer that followed George Floyd’s … calls away from the Boston Police Department. Those calls—often involving mental-health emergencies, homelessness, … Center, whose clinicians assist officers in responding to crises; clinicians themselves respond to mental-health …
Spaces for Art, People, and Light
… This winter, the entire Gund Hall lobby of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) was given over to various depictions, …
Issue: May-June 2012
“A Passion and a Voice”
… Toward the end of his afternoon address, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu enlisted help from the new graduates—as intellectual leaders, scientists and …
Issue: July-August 2009