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Addressing Conflicts of Interest
… As the academic year ended, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … of determining what kinds of potential conflicts may arise. Based on experiences at other schools, they said, 90 …
Issue: July-August 2012
“The Refusal of Time”
… The command “Leap Before You Look” flashes on the screen above William Kentridge’s head, in the middle of a lecture in which he has walked several laps backwards on the stage of Sanders Theatre, attempted to speak in reverse, acted a …
Neil Patrick Harris Is Man of the Year
… Whether portraying a lovable child doctor on Doogie Howser, … center-stage with brilliant song and dance as host of the Tony Awards, or getting laughs as the womanizing … Neil Patrick Harris—today named the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year—knows how to put on a show. “We are pleased to …
The Egalitarian
… At the moment , no book is more visible or abundant at the gift shop of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where more … that liberty and equality are on a seesaw, that one can rise only at the expense of the other. Instead, she …
Issue: May-June 2016
We Were Students Once...
… ...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), … purity—moving quietly about a square New England house that rises high among its elms above a wide, slow-flowing …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Admits Record-Low 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2020
… College announced today that 2,037 students have been offered admission to the class of 2020 ( including the 918 previously notified … week, when the College disclosed that the term bill will rise to $63,025 , up 3.9 percent—or $2,366—from $60,659 in …
Compensation Practices and Incentives: Mihir A. Desai
… An interview with Mihir A. Desai , Mizuho Financial Group professor of finance and professor of law, and HBS’s senior … associate dean for planning and university affairs. Read the complete article, “Can America Compete?” … of the capital market. These beliefs are manifest in the rise of equity-based compensation for managers but also in …
Issue: September-October 2012
Out of Little Acorns
… For most of this century, seniors have been bidding farewell to the College by putting cash gifts in its coffers. Alumni … fundraising as it is about lectures and labs, were surprised that class gift agents exploit friendships in the name …
What Roman Ruins Reveal
… Geophysical proofs are not the only kinds of evidence Mitrovica marshals to illuminate the history of sea-level rise. One of his favorite examples comes from a fellow …
Issue: September-October 2016
Exposed
… your knowledge, a high-resolution camera took a photograph of your hand, capturing your fingerprints. You might be upset. Or—if you were visiting Disneyland, where they already make an image of your fingerprint to save you … could collect; it didn’t apply to commercial enterprises like credit-card companies. No one imagined today’s …
Issue: September-October 2009
Building Boom
… The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus … and 1970s. Now, science facilities and housing are on the rise, fueled by federal biomedical research and the 1990s …
Issue: May-June 2005
From the Soil Up
… year marks one hundred years since Beatrix Farrand designed the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and … garden and landscape studies tucked in the northern corner of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The gardens boast exuberant … in 1940. The 16 acres and neo-Georgian home that now comprise the research institution were the more formal gardens …
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s New Dean Announced
… James E. Ryan , a scholar at the crossroads of education, law, and policy, will become … in meaningful educational opportunities that give rise to the achievement gap, and with recommending ways that …
The Living Harvard Force
… The first in what is now a 90-year series of alumni … of College alumni are 70 or over; the median age has risen to 49. For obvious reasons, most directories begin to …
Cambridge 02138
… highlighting “ Safe Streets ” (March-April, page 24) and the need to improve urban road design, and share Max … landscape worth exploring further: the rising popularity of electric bikes (e-bikes), and the hazards to both kids … about urban road safety. Fatal traffic crashes continue to rise in many American cities. In Washington, D.C., for …
Issue: May-June 2025