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Propelling Public Health
… The University was excited on the morning of September 8 … an HSPH alumnus and a leader of the family business enterprises, locally and in Hong Kong. “On behalf of my mother and …
Issue: November-December 2014
Ballots, Please
… This spring, alumni vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and for elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should …
Issue: March-April 2006
George Ticknor
… By today's standards, Harvard College before the Civil War was a provincial academy, competent (judged … beginning to shape the modern world. Yet one early member of its teaching faculty stands as a signal exception. George Ticknor—invited in 1816 to become Smith professor of the French and Spanish languages and …
Issue: January-February 2005
How Globalization Begets Inequality
… In 1980, according to World Bank estimates, average income there was less than $200, measured in current U.S. dollars. … who really benefited from development during this period of increasing globalization. In fact, this economic … by growing income inequality. China’s Gini index (a measure of income distribution where 0 is perfect equality and 1 is …
Issue: March-April 2015
Happy New (Academic) Year
… The drought that fastened its grip on eastern Massachusetts … the calendar moves inevitably forward—toward the resumption of academic activity in a new school year. Members of the … opening exercises, many of those issues are likely to arise anew, informally and perhaps even formally. (A dozen …
FAS Dean Outlines Priorities
… Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined his priorities for the academic year in his first forward-looking annual letter …
Football: Harvard 42, San Diego 20
… Until this week, no Harvard football team had ventured to the West Coast since September 24, 1949, when Stanford … in these western precincts evaporated in the blast furnace of the Stanford performance,” reported The Boston Globe . … 38,000 on hand.” “We played football like we had been chloroformed,” one Harvard player told the Globe . With 4,256 on …
Teaching Values
… Should discussions of moral principles form part of the curriculum in public schools? Katherine Simon '85 has …
Issue: January-February 2002
Caviar and Heather
… The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of … (Counterpoint, $26) is a captivatingly written chronicle of a fast disappearing fish with a mysterious history and an …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Details Climate-Change Actions
… Last October, in the wake of strong student support for divesting University … in companies engaged in producing fossil fuels (part of a campaign to promote this idea nationwide ), President …
Loss
… One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel awkward during the first week (and for me, long after); it is absolutely …
Issue: September-October 2001
Tata Hall Dedicated at HBS
… at Harvard Business School (HBS) each year, and many of them will be living and learning in Tata Hall, dedicated in … many years. “Those 13 weeks were the most important time of my life in the way they transformed me and increased my …
Susanne Ebbinghaus
… The recently appointed Hanfmann curator of ancient art at … empire and their reception in the West. This was the topic of the thesis that earned her a doctorate from Oxford in …
Issue: November-December 2006
Making America Competitive Again
… and a failing public education system are just a few of the many serious problems the United States government can’t … economic growth. Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School Michael Porter calls this …
Issue: July-August 2021
Commencement Confetti
… Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were … said Class Day guest speaker Conan O'Brien '85, the host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. "The last time I was … at www.harvard-magazine.com. Andrew S. Grove, the chairman of Intel, was Class Day speaker at the Business School and …