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The New Little Magazines
… were surrounded by taxidermied peacocks and monkeys in the lounge of New York’s Jane Hotel. That evening this spring, they … it; and streaming platforms are responsible for the rise of the bland maximalism of today’s most influential pop …
Issue: September-October 2023
The World According to Slater
… Philip Slater’s book The Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture … newer pattern: integrative culture. “Incivility and chaos arise when an old system is breaking down and a new one …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Science of Scarcity
… Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University … available for everything else. Such problems simply don’t arise for the rich. To rule out other factors, the …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Business of Turning 375
… celebrate Harvard’s 375 th birthday on October 14. Members of the HBS community gathered to decorate themselves with … flair. In 2008, there was a neoclassical replica cake of the iconic Baker Library; this year, when HBS affiliates …
“Bodies of Knowledge”
… The title page of Andreas Vesalius’s monumental 1543 anatomy textbook, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Fabric of the Human Body ), depicts a public dissection. In an …
Off the Shelf
… canvas), by G. Dell Bridgeman Images Summer brings thoughts of seasides and sailing. For landlubbers, some beach reading. Barons of the Sea, by Steven Ujifusa ’01 (Simon & Schuster, $29.99), … age of technological innovation, sharp competition, and the rise of new fortunes: the nineteenth-century scrum to build …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Language Out of Nothing
… For the first time in more than two decades, Harvard began … to NSL’s emergence might be pidgins and creoles. Pidgins arise in situations of cross-cultural contact, like trade or …
Issue: May-June 2017
The New Gender Gaps
… going to college, but his grades weren’t good enough for the schools he was interested in, he says. The summer before his senior year of high school, he interned at a water purification company … most men’s real wages have fallen, while most women’s have risen , and an increasing share of “prime-age men”—those …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Diverse “Symphony of Harvard”
… President Drew Faust compared the Harvard community to a symphony orchestra—beautiful in … an annual presidential tradition that marks the first day of classes. She began by cataloging the diversity of the … the choir’s singing of the day’s anthem (“Awake My Heart; Arise My Tongue”). The hymn, which the congregation sang …
“A Moment of Absolute Moral Clarity”
… About perhaps no other public issue does President Drew Faust feel more … personally—than America’s history and continuing legacy of racial division. In the spring of 2003, when she was dean … once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. “History says, Don’t …
Reports from the “New America”
… The pioneering media site LatinoRebels.com, founded in 2011 … to drunkenness; the ads were pulled. It published video of Puerto Rican independence supporters burning an American … campaign that helped push the doll off the air. Then comprised of Varela and 20 bloggers (mostly his friends), the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Risk without Reward
… 14, 1997, Robert C. Merton (now McArthur University Professor at the Business School) and Myron Scholes were awarded the … and GM will converge. You really don't care if the market rises or falls--or whether Ford stands still and GM drops, …
A Cathedral of Sweat
… Moments after Harvard lost to Yale 97-85 in the Ivy League tournament championship, Stemberg coach Tommy … pawmarks were everywhere: the walls adorned with portraits of famous alumni (including baseball player George H.W. … rivalry. There was even Yale-branded bottled water in front of the coach and point guard Bryce Aiken ’20, who looked …
Issue: May-June 2019
Seeking Climate Solutions
… The University has entered a new phase of engagement with … in greenhouse gas emissions, and policies to help enterprises and affected communities transition to new forms of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Amy Poehler Honored as Woman of the Year
… As a former long-time member and co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe, comedic actress … gave as good as she got at the annual Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year roast. “You know—amazing,” Poehler said, after …