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Passive Corporate Governance
… Index funds —the low-cost mainstay of retirement accounts and college … so popular that they now hold a surprisingly large share of U.S. corporations. These passive investment vehicles …
Issue: March-April 2020
“O” for Opportunity
… Imagine, against all the evidence, that the Supreme Court, which is hearing … (SFFA) has brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina , rules for the defendant institutions (as … 1978 Bakke decision and upheld ever since (holistic review of candidates, including permissible consideration of racial …
Issue: November-December 2022
Art and Nature in Andover
… Two exhibits at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, in … and television. “Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home” features modern and contemporary photographs, such …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Very Image
… The work almost always begins, says writer Cynthia Zarin ’81, with an image she can’t let go of: a pair of gold earrings, a decaying woodpile full of mice and …
Issue: May-June 2024
Feldstein Advocates Massive Mortgage Relief
… Writing in the New York Times , Baker professor of economics Martin S. Feldstein is urging a $350-billion …
Allston’s New Agenda
… Harvard is preparing to resume construction of its science project in Allston, where work ceased in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis . Five hundred stem-cell scientists, …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard Medalists
… THE HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during … by his parents—both ardent conservationists—which now comprises nearly 8,000 acres of land conserved in perpetuity. …
Learning About Teaching Now
… Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, the seventh annual iteration, held on September 21, … in improved teaching, and the continuing challenges of attaining those ambitions in the context of a broad … role is, and how successful and influential that enterprise has been. Kosslyn observed that given the ubiquity of …
Insurgent Election
… The most serene of American elections— the University’s annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association …
Harvesting History
… Ferry, West Virginia, William W. Sellers ’90 stops at the brick guard house where abolitionist John Brown was … for what’s good and right?” asks Sellers, president of a national heritage organization that includes Harpers … growth—continues, however, as the region’s population rises. Sellers speaks often on issues like proposed housing …
Issue: May-June 2018
Navigating Changing Careers
… To find an era of upheaval in the nature of work comparable to the scale and impact of that underway …
Memory and Celebration
… Listen to the live audio recording. … commencement ceremony is an event rooted in the exercise of memory: memory institutional, historical, and personal. Today we sit where hundreds of graduating classes have sat before us, hearing the same …
Yenching Plundered
… 2000, that books and scrolls with an estimated market value of $1 million were missing from a safe at the Harvard-Yenching Library at 2 Divinity Avenue in … are 33 books, a handwritten scroll, a painting in the form of a hanging scroll, and 10 individual volumes (comparable …
Past’s Presence
… The Radcliffe Institute’s annual barbecue felt a bit like a cafeteria on the first day of high school. Heavy rains the previous night forced the … place to sit. In the line for the buffet, a woman in front of me politely asked what I was studying. I told her, …
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
… As a young man, Sharif Tabebordbar remembers seeing his father struggling to play soccer, and then losing the ability … for his father’s illness. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Harvard students assembled by Tabebordbar and based in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute of Harvard and …