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Societal Doctor
… Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing with the environment? Eric Chivian '64, M.D. '68, hopes so. A …
Issue: March-April 2003
A Bold Business Agenda
… disadvantages upon assuming his responsibilities as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)on January 1, 2021: taking office in the middle of an academic year, and amid the pandemic. He … and so is fully aligned with the role of private enterprise. Equally important, he continued, “We need to develop …
Issue: March-April 2022
Kara Walker “Sweet Talks” Harvard
… In 1994— the year she graduated from the Rhode Island School of … the Drawing Center in Soho. Three years later, at the age of 27, she became one of the youngest recipients of a …
Commencement Confetti
… Self-deprecation was much in style this year. Dampening the spirits of already drenched seniors on Class Day, Ben S. Bernanke … satire as a rule, so I am going to have to strive for ‘kind of interesting.’” Honorand J.K. Rowling told the afternoon …
Issue: July-August 2008
Lost Art
… The Harvard Dictionary of Music defined "improvisation" in 1969 as "[t]he art of performing music spontaneously, without the aid of manuscript, sketches, or memory...a phenomenon so …
Sisters in Thin Air
… The tallest group of women ever to play basketball for Harvard is now on the court. They're not just high, but mighty: "This is … Kathy Delaney-Smith, now in her eighteenth year at the helm of women's hoop. On this altitudinal squad, the highest of …
Matt Damon: From Harvard to Hollywood, and Back Home
… he left Harvard with something perhaps more valuable: the first act of the movie that skyrocketed him to fame, Good Will Hunting … “I left with this document under my arm—this first 40 pages of a screenplay,” said Damon, who received the 2013 Arts …
Sarah Ganz Blythe New Art Museums Director
… Sarah Ganz Blythe , deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), has been appointed Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums effective August 12, interim …
Harvard Management Company Undertakes Sweeping Change
… The new president of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.P. … operations, including: outsourcing the management of several classes of assets—in effect, shifting away from … fund-like investments managed internally at HMC now comprise a very small percentage of the overall endowment. We …
Hail Fellows!
… E. J. Cadenhead and Swathi Kella to its editorial staff as the 2021-2022 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next issue, … about student activities and concerns and other aspects of Harvard life. Cadenhead, of Dobbs Ferry, New York, and …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Endowment Decreases by $1.9 Billion on Negative Investment Returns
… Performance highlights for fiscal 2016: •The endowment’s value stood at $35.7 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, a decrease of $1.9 … grants do not cover the full cost of the research enterprise. Increasingly, endowments play a significant role in …
Public Health Horizons
… When Barry Bloom looks around at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), he sees an … researchers than when he arrived 10 years ago. Each of these has been a priority for Bloom during his tenure as …
Issue: July-August 2008
"I Do Not Abide"
… I studied for my first set of college finals in Harvard Law School’s student center. … that unfamiliar place, because I wanted to feel invisible. The architecture of Wasserstein and the adjoining Caspersen Student Center …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard Medalists
… Avarita L. Hanson ’75 in 1975 founded what’s now known as the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and has served as treasurer of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975, president of the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Morehouse Man, Redux
… To start the new academic year off right, Morehouse College … recruiter, and is contacting American Latinos, who comprise less than 10 percent of the student body but have shown …
Issue: November-December 2013