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A New Dean at HBS
… Business School Jay O. Light, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. professor of business administration, became acting dean of Harvard Business School on August 1. A member of the faculty since 1970 and most recently senior associate … and on entrepreneurial management of technology enterprises. Likely as he is to maintain the school’s priorities …
Issue: September-October 2005
Battling Eating Disorders
… awareness club as a freshman majoring in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, she did it to support a friend. “My friend had lived experience [of an eating disorder] and was really passionate about …
Issue: January-February 2024
Home Builder
… Upon graduating , Nick Volk ’53 began traveling the world, going from Cambodia to Thailand to Bangladesh … Corporation for 23 years. Though he was president of the Harvard Club of Toronto and the Harvard Alumni Association’s regional …
Issue: July-August 2012
Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment
… Following the January news that Winthrop House faculty dean Ronald S. … movie producer Harvey Weinstein against multiple charges of sexual assault, student residents, and other … because the University’s data show a significant number of internal cases of sexual harassment or assault, many …
Issue: May-June 2019
What Is Critical Race Theory?
… Racial-justice activists at Harvard Law School (HLS) won one of the largest public battles over the school’s legacy this … existing HLS shield. The shield was modeled after the crest of the slaveholding Royall family, whose fortune endowed …
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
… Young teens in poor countries often buy cigarettes one at a time because they can’t afford a whole package. But that’s still enough … Dlamini-Zuma, a guest speaker at this week’s “Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century” conference, sponsored by …
Sarah Jessica Parker Speaks at Harvard Law School Class Day 2016
… Parker told imminent Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates and their families on Class Day. The earnest speech was delivered before an international crowd of hundreds at Holmes Field. Listening, Parker said, “can be … of operation and pride for me. In ‘wanting’ is energy, surprise, youth, and motion. In ‘not wanting’ is inertia.” Best …
Music and Lyrics
… (Read more in " Storytelling with Sondheim ," from the January-February 2011 issue.) For the occasion of Lincoln Center's twenty-fifth anniversary, the venue … interviews with creators who'd done a significant amount of work there over the years. In one clip, Weidman discusses …
Issue: January-February 2011
Combating Bias
… In early May, when the cochairs of the University’s task forces on combating … briefly on what they had heard from the community, they offered similar impressions. Ali S. Asani, Albertson …
Issue: September-October 2024
Jeremy Lin to Speak at Harvard College Class Day
… Linsanity? It’s returning to campus: Jeremy Lin ’10 , the Harvard basketball stalwart (he was captain his senior … June 4 and beyond. Lin was the first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA; he was … in response to former President Donald Trump’s labeling of the coronavirus as a Chinese invention—the selection of …
Samuel Gershman
… “In some deep sense, memory is at the core of life,” says neuroscientist and professor of psychology Samuel Gershman, midway through a …
Issue: September-October 2025
Claudine Gay in First Post-Presidency Appearance
… morning, former Harvard president Claudine Gay addressed the Harvard community publicly for the first time since her resignation. Gay spoke in Appleton Chapel as part of the daily Morning Prayers service. She recounted a story … (helping her enroll in English classes and in hopes of becoming a nurse), she slipped away and began her life …
Marijuana
… By the time he turned 18, Irvin Rosenfeld had long suffered … the only thing I've done differently.'" Rosenfeld is one of a growing number of patients inhaling and hailing the … to calm his stomach, but she went ahead anyway. "My surprise gave way to relief when I saw how relaxed Danny was," …
They Said
… President Lawrence S. Bacow: “I began to let that idea of myself go” In his baccalaureate address , President … an anxiety many students probably felt: “After years of amassing options, you are now faced with the prospect of having to exercise them—the act of walking …
Issue: July-August 2019
Defeat by Truth Is Victory
… address on August 31, following a tradition in which the Harvard president speaks in Memorial Church at the beginning of the fall term. He began by thanking those in attendance … At Harvard, a return to normalcy means the restoration of a community that considers issues with high stakes (Bacow …