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Governance Reform and Shared Value
… How can business help mend the broken U.S. political system—and even step up to fulfill … needs government fails to meet? Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the best-known scholar of corporate strategy, turned his attention to these …
World Music 2.0
… Clayton ’97 (a.k.a. DJ /rupture) came upon live recordings of cumbia sonidera , a Mexican offshoot of a Colombian dance genre. The style is the mainspring for parties at Latin nightclubs …
Issue: November-December 2016
Language Wars
… Lest you take these English words for granted, consider this: when the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within its boundaries spoke English as … can feel essential to its very existence. It's no surprise that often the more vulnerable a group feels, the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Weighing In
… What lies ahead for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? What are the most … President Lawrence Summers has invited comment from members of the faculty, students, and staff. Suggestions may be …
Issue: May-June 2002
Landmark Newsstand May Close
… An iconic Harvard Square newsstand may close early in 2009, the Cambridge City Council learned yesterday. The Harvard … Crimson reports that Hudson News, which operates Out of Town News, has declined to renew its lease, which expires … to a temporary lease, at a discounted rate, through the end of January to give the city time to solicit bids from other …
Slavery’s Sway
… Dictators? Colonial rule? Nathan Nunn, an assistant professor of economics, believes he has found at least a partial answer. The slave trade, far from being a relic of the past, he …
Issue: November-December 2008
Movement Ecology
… The afternoon was cloudless, a brief window of calm in an … hectic spring semester. Alejo and I sat in the backyard of the Dudley Cooperative house, regarding the pots of …
Issue: September-October 2019
Bruce Western
… His interest in prisons began “almost by accident,” says the new director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Genomic Joint Venture
… Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on … philanthropists Eli Broad (pronounced brode ), chairman of AIG SunAmerica Inc., and his wife, Edythe Broad, the new … plan of research and no details about how the enterprise will "benefit the University as a whole." The new …
Issue: September-October 2003
Directions and Parking
… The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI) is located in the Science Center at One Oxford Street in Cambridge. The … For your convenience, we have reserved a limited number of parking spots at one of Harvard's parking garages at no …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs host gatherings all around the country. On January 21, for example, the Harvard Club of Cape Cod presents Menzel research professor of astrophysics David Layzer, speaking on "Freedom …
Issue: January-February 2005
Japan's No-Aerobics
… Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as the world's healthiest people. They have …
“If Your Dreams Do Not Scare You, They Are Not Big Enough”
… In offering advice to the 2011 graduates, principal Commencement speaker Ellen … experience—and that experience is notable: in four decades of involvement in Liberian politics, she has endured exile, imprisonment (twice), and the threat of execution. The simple fact that there had …
At Last, a Sweep
… , an unusual sight greeted fans at Lavietes Pavilion: the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball national championship trophy … the prize to one school in every conference in advance of March Madness. The notion of Harvard winning that tournament may be far-fetched, but …
Jazz and Boston: A True Combo
… It’s a Friday night at The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge’s Central Square and Yoko Miwa … everyone is completely tuned in. For some, music is part of the atmosphere, akin to the lipstick-red laminated seats; … Boston, there’s plenty of jazz to be heard. This might surprise those who think jazz hubs mean New Orleans and New York …
Issue: November-December 2019