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Anna Jacobson Schwartz
… Anna Jacobson Schwartz had been a full-time economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for more than a decade when she … made it possible to “get downtown to use the [calculating] machines.” Unlike most NBER economists, Schwartz was part of …
Issue: November-December 2023
War of Words
… president was bound to establish new priorities, altering the expectations built up during the prior decade and … new millennium afforded opportunities to take stock of what use was being made of the wealth that had been accumulated in the prior decade. …
Issue: March-April 2002
Faculty Member Remarks at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Meeting, March 15, 2005
… William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences I'd like to say a few words … all know that in leading such a talented and complex enterprise as this faculty of arts and sciences there is no …
Off the Shelf
… A bombardier beetle, in a photograph by Eisner from the book For Love of Insects, by Thomas Eisner '51, Ph.D. '56 (Harvard … with, a bombardier beetle discharges a visible cloud of stinging juice from the rear with an audible "pop." One …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Legal Olympian
… Cass Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, has been regarded as one of the country’s most influential and adventurous legal … economic growth, and preserve the system of free enterprise, but also to create “a floor below which human lives …
Issue: January-February 2015
Open Book: Rough Road for Capitalism
… The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession surprised … economists and policymakers, writes David M. Kotz ’65, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Releases Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
… and anti-Muslim bias on April 29, along with an apology for the tense campus environment of the past two years. “The 2023-24 academic year was … their initial findings in June 2024, but publication of the final reports was continually delayed. The U.S. …
Issue: July-August 2025
Pandemic in the Workplace
… tentative steps toward reopening, a pertinent study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that workplace transmission of the coronavirus accounted for 48 percent of the initial …
Off the Shelf
… The Future of Faith , by Harvey Cox, Hollis professor of divinity (HarperOne, $25.99). The retiring … on the decline of dogma and formal Christianity, and the rise of a new “Age of the Spirit.” “To Everything There …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Allure of Japanese Prints
… Drawing from the Harvard Art Museums’ extensive collection of Japanese … modern portraits. The innovative artist Suzuki Harunobu, of the Edo era, was especially known for his renderings of …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Faculty Faces Its Future
… 18 new faculty searches this academic year—bringing the total to an eye-popping 66—it was a tangible sign that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has weathered the coronavirus … bills. Building and occupancy, dining, and other costs will rise accordingly. Financial-aid spending, reduced by $36 …
Issue: January-February 2022
The President's Perspective
… Lawrence H. Summers met with Harvard Magazine in his office at Massachusetts Hall to discuss the status of the priorities he outlined in his installation … of any year in the last 15. On managing the enterprise. The second continuing priority is with respect to the …
Issue: January-February 2004
Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has named actors Bryce … Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia its 2019 Woman and Man of the Year, the awards presented annually “to performers … have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.” Howard is best known for her role as …
The 2014 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Reforming Social Security
… The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social … that we will want to devote to healthcare will likely rise substantially and, because much of healthcare in the … reach retirement with sufficient savings. As wage levels rise over time, Social Security benefits therefore need to …
Issue: March-April 2005