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Endowment Overhaul
… Beginning his eighth week as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.V. Narvekar on January 25 announced sweeping changes in how the University’s $35.7-billion endowment will be invested. … fund-like investments managed internally at HMC now comprise a very small percentage of the overall endowment. We …
Issue: March-April 2017
Harvard Portrait: Vijay Iyer
… is Harvard’s first jazz artist-in-residence and tenured professor, a complex dual role: “What does it mean to be connected to a vernacular music that’s part of grassroots histories and movements, and then walk into the academy with tenure?” His own musical …
Issue: March-April 2015
AI in the Academy
… computer code, generate audio, and create images, within the past year has become capable of producing work indistinguishable from that of humans. Generative AI, given the right prompts, can …
Issue: November-December 2023
Up and Down with Harvard Skiing
… upheaval was tearing apart Chile, Peter Carter, coach of the Harvard Ski Team, found himself with an automatic pistol … that skiing for Harvard in those days could have surprises. In post-dinner remarks, Carter, a retired Vermont …
John Chervinsky
… scientific bric-a-brac (a magnet, a tuning fork) alongside other objects (a candle, a lily), aiming to ask a question or illustrate a problem. “The creative side of good science comes from the same place in the mind as the creative side of making art,” he says, “yet scientists and artists don’t …
Issue: May-June 2008
Can America Compete?
… Does the United States face insoluble economic challenges? In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, … strategy (identifying the elements that can make an enterprise distinctive and successful, sorting out the defining …
Issue: September-October 2012
Liquid Computing
… Imagine a computer, suspended in a flask of liquid, which assembles itself when the liquid is poured onto a desktop. Sound like science fiction? Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber is making it happen in …
Issue: November-December 2001
Reforming Misdemeanors
… American prosecutors file criminal misdemeanor charges. These crimes are often described as “minor,” ranging from “victimless crimes” … though many cases are dismissed before trial. Kreindler professor of law Alexandra Natapoff argues that by …
Issue: January-February 2025
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Holy Cross 28
… Football consists of three components: offense, defense, and special teams. On Saturday at Polar … in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard excelled in all three. The upshot was a major upset, with the Crimson taking down …
Overseers Dis Gov
… It is the disquieting habit of the compilers of the twenty-fifth-anniversary reports of …
Larry 29
… The sun shone brightly on Harvard and Lawrence S. Bacow on … in my lifetime, people are actually questioning the value of sending a child to college. For the first time in my … “both reassuring truths and unsettling truths,” which arise from those “who challenge our thinking.” Harvard must …
Issue: November-December 2018
Harvard at the Olympics
… As most students wrap up summer internships, 26 of their fellow Harvardians are spending two weeks in Paris … losing by a single point. “The Gentlemen of Harvard,” comprised of Eli Dershwitz ’18, Colin Heathcock ’28, Mitchell …
Nonstop
… wake up each morning with a fever; you feel like a shadow of yourself. But no time for sickness today—the Adams House intramural crew has one of its thrice-weekly … 6 A.M., and you…will…row. Some mornings, you watch the sunrise from Lamont Library after hitting your study groove …
Issue: March-April 2010
Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?
… treatment for mood disorders? Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, discusses the potential of using …
Is There Better Than Better?
… Professor of psychology Ellen Langer once received an invitation to … religious,” she agreed to offer a reflection at the service, choosing a topic at the intersection of religion and psychology: forgiveness. As …
Issue: May-June 2021