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EVP Forst to Leave Harvard
… last fall from Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw management of hundreds of billions of dollars of investment assets (and previously … served as chief administrative officer), is leaving the University as of August 1. The announcement comes after …
Overseer and Director Elected Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: March-April 2023
Hot Canvases
… Museum, Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, sees an empty frame on the wall. It used to hold Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert —one of 13 paintings stolen from the Gardner in the early-morning hours of March 18, 1990, when thieves posing as police officers …
Issue: March-April 2012
Don’t Edit My Broken-ness
… The newspaper I internshiped , the Riviera Times in Nice, … experience and top-notch work ethic from those in front of me. Speaking on the phone was the most horrible. I would … pronounce squirrel. Sometimes a beautiful confusion would arise over whether we should be speaking French, German, …
Zen, and Other Journeys
… putting books onto a new bookshelf when a red one fell to the floor. “What is this ?” she asked, in a slightly offended voice. “That’s mine,” I said, taking it from her. Though Lady of the Lotus Born isn’t exactly X-rated, it does contain a …
Issue: July-August 2006
When Everything Goes Right Until...
… On paper , as students encounter the Harvard Business School (HBS) case about Día Día … goods, rendered in a Spanish neologism), it is the model of a successful business at the base of the pyramid. The … America’s most inhospitable environments for private enterprise. (For example, DD had to secure permission for every …
Issue: September-October 2015
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
… Urban historian Lizabeth Cohen—the Jones professor of American studies and past dean of the Radcliffe Institute …
Aloian Scholars
… Navin Kumar ’06, of Kirkland House, and Joshua Reyes ’05, of Leverett House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial … a former HAA executive director and master of Quincy House, the scholarships are awarded to two seniors who have made …
Issue: September-October 2005
Commencement Confetti
… NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old … golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out Memorial Hall just before the … (scallop-and-shrimp salad, then horseradish-encrusted filet of beef with a mushroom port sauce, accompanied by a Bach …
Issue: July-August 2005
Dropping Out: In Their Own Words
… Harvard Magazine recently caught up with three members of the class of 1969 who never graduated. Joanne Ricca, Bernard Levine, …
Issue: July-August 2010
Freedom from Food
… Weight-conscious adults ordered salads with dressings on the side, requested coffee without milk or sugar, and ate unflavored rice cakes. Her high-school friends followed along. “None of us were overweight,” she says. “But everybody always …
Issue: September-October 2022
Hemp on His Agenda
… Long a favorite of hippies and hikers, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap, first sold in 1948 by the original “Dr. Bronner,” is an all-natural, all-purpose … idiosyncratic soapmaker from Germany, used the labels of his products to spread a gospel of spiritual oneness …
Ruth Simmons to Join Harvard as Senior Adviser
… announced that Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on … year by a Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. Among other actions, the committee called on … with HBCUs”—and suggested doing so through “the expansion of existing collaborations” with “research-focused HBCUs” …
Unpack!
… class chose George Plimpton ’48 as its Class Day speaker, they knew what they were getting into—or so they thought. Plimpton, the longtime editor of the Paris Review and a Harvard Lampoon stalwart as an … other media, including several books, for his puckish sense of humor, and for his niche as a "professional amateur"—a …
A Look at Institutional Ethics
… An executive from General Electric once told Barbara Toffler, a partner in Arthur Andersen & Company who has … led to a huge gap between companies' mission statements and their day-to-day practices. "I haven't yet seen a company … teach a philosopher? Given the ethical dilemmas that can arise in the workplace and in society, professionals need the …