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Brevia
… Service Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross , Leverett professor of mathematics, left his decanal post on August 31. He was … in June, it proscribed direct investment in a third enterprise, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which is under the …
Issue: September-October 2007
Spirited Celebrations
… Temperatures are dipping, snow is (almost) falling, and the holiday season is just around the corner. There are so … Cheers! Longing to get outside, despite the chill? Trustees of Reservations estates throughout the region come alive … firepits, and catered delicacies. Photograph courtesy of Nashoba Valley Or warm up with a twirl around Kendall …
Issue: November-December 2022
Yale Estimates 25 Percent Endowment Decline, Phases Budget Cuts
… Yale President Richard C. Levin on December 16 wrote to the Eli community , outlining a negative 13.4 percent … from July 1 through October 31, and providing estimates of the value of illiquid investments (private equities, real estate, and …
Harvard Calendar
… MUSIC. The Harvard Club of Boston hosts the annual "battle of the bands" on February 22 at 7 p.m. The event pits …
Issue: January-February 2002
Advice for an Imperfect World
… in Cambridge to begin his first year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 years ago this fall. Now, as president of Harvard, he began his speech at this year’s Convocation …
Cambridge 02138
… Base of the Pyramid Thank you for the important article about impact … a profit and solving a pervasive problem. Other enterprises provide low-cost solar-powered light and power … about to brand a patient with a dollar sign, sure surprised this alum who regularly wears a straw hat in the sunny …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow to Step Down
… Martha Minow, who became dean of Harvard Law School in 2009 , announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. Her message to the community emphasizd …
Capital-Campaign Compendium
… The schools of business, dental medicine, divinity, and … this spring. With their targets included, some $4.6 billion of the $6.5-billion Harvard Campaign’s aggregate goal has … and summer and postgraduate fellowships for social enterprise, entrepreneurship, and other pursuits; $150 million); …
Issue: July-August 2014
Trump Administration Expands Harvard Student Visa Vetting
… The U.S. State Department has ordered its consulates and … according to a cable sent late Thursday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The cable—obtained and reported by … process aims to identify applicants “with histories of anti-Semitic harassment and violence,” though it offers …
Faculty Filmmakers
… “The people I work with here are the filmmakers I respect … a tremendous asset as a filmmaker,” says Ross McElwee, professor of the practice of filmmaking, whose acclaimed work is …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Academic Agenda
… The panel discussions accompanying Harvard’s presidential installations provide a good outline of each new administration’s chief academic interests, and … so it was on Friday morning, September 29. Four and a half of the six sessions align directly with subjects Claudine …
Issue: November-December 2023
Brevia
… Courtesy of Harvard Business School Ratan Tata B-School Building Boomlet Although other University construction in Allston has been suspended, … weakness,” and making a business of credit was “an enterprise suited only to the greedy and predatory.” Among the …
Issue: January-February 2011
Problems and Promise
… in America is imposing both in its comprehensiveness and in the balance and depth of its arguments. Rather than offering a taxonomic catalog … Bok has serious concerns about many aspects of the enterprise of contemporary higher education, he does not believe …
Issue: November-December 2013
Yesterday’s News
… 1922 Professional waiters will be employed this year in the dining-room of the Harvard Union. For the past three years that work has …
Issue: September-October 2012
Divisions, and Dylan
… for a seminar. As former Harvard Magazine editor John Bethell recounts in Harvard Observed , the visit coincided … “Discovering that he was being shown out the back way, some of the demonstrators lay down in front of a waiting police car. Others started to rock it. By then …
Issue: November-December 2016