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Peabody Museum Removes Native American Funerary Objects
… The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has begun … week from the museum said that its staff was in the process of removing “all funerary belongings and likely funerary … for “collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency.” And in a …
Battle-Scarred
… Americans can’t seem to get their Civil War out of their heads. It was bloodshed on home … it was hugely bloody, with 620,000 killed in action or dead of wounds or disease. Last December, the Center for the …
Issue: September-October 2013
American Solidarity
… Robert W. McElroy ’76 has been focused on politics and the state of the country. “We can idealize, as if times in the past … tremendous solidarity,” he says. “But I think we are in a profound moment of crisis on that question in our society. …
Issue: May-June 2024
Fed Chair Janet Yellen to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… FEDERAL RESERVE chair Janet Yellen will receive the Radcliffe Medal and speak to guests at the Radcliffe Day … to economics, followed by a discussion with Beren professor of economics N. Gregory Mankiw. The day will open with a …
Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good?
… Wouldn’t everyone want a hometown that’s a “smart city”? The answer seems obvious: who, after all, wants to live in a … by his experience designing technology for the cities of New Haven, Memphis, and Boston, Green—now a doctoral … candidate in applied math at Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an affiliate of the …
Issue: May-June 2019
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, …
Faculty Diversity: some additional statistics
… Supplemental statistics to " Forum: Faculty Diversity ," in the March-April, 2002 edition of Harvard Magazine. Despite 30 years of affirmative action, and contrary to public perceptions, …
Issue: March-April 2002
Teach a Man to Fish
… Having spent the last days of the groundfishing season on the open ocean east of Cape Cod, Russell Sherman ’71 chugged into Gloucester …
Issue: July-August 2016
Saving Stephen Hawking
… degrees at Commencement. It’s also a tradition to honor the reunion-class marshals after the morning exercises by … the honorands during a reception, a lunch, and a tour of the campus, and finally to the Commencement day afternoon exercises. As First Marshal of the College class of 1965 for a quarter-century, I was …
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
News in Brief
… Headliners The guest speaker during Harvard’s May 23 Commencement … Nobel Peace Prize for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines. During the authoritarian administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, she became a fierce critic of …
Issue: May-June 2024
Unveiled
… indulged his passion hugely. Yet, from what one may know of him, he seems in certain aspects of his life a pathetic figure. When Winthrop died in 1943, he left his art …
Issue: March-April 2003
Making Organizations Moral
… In the early 2000s, a riptide of business scandals toppled … Andersen, and WorldCom. In the aftermath, says Straus professor of business administration Max Bazerman , “society …
Issue: November-December 2014
Axim Online Education Venture Debuts
… months after co-founders Harvard and MIT agreed to sell their edX online-learning venture to 2U , a for-profit course manager, the successor nonprofit organization … a venture philanthropy firm that funds startup social enterprises (including those listed on whose boards she served). …