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Circus Art
… Circus: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs illustrates the charms and thrills of this traveling entertainment during its heyday in Europe … in 1768; another would debut in Newport, Rhode Island. Each offered equestrian feats. As the phenomenon grew, especially …
Issue: January-February 2015
Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days
… T he 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched the dreams and journeys of thousands of people who migrated … and laborers, early mining technology, and the rapid rise of cities, like San Francisco, and smaller “wild West” …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Strategic Context: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
… An interview with Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University Professor, and Jan W. Rivkin, Rauner professor of business … administration and head of HBS’s strategy unit. Read the complete article, Can America Compete? … GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company …
Issue: September-October 2012
“You Need to Move”
… Robert Verchick, J.D. ’89, professes environmental law at Loyola University and is a … in New Orleans, providing an up-close-and-personal view of the threats from climate change: rising seas, more powerful … locals call them, have been increasing because of sea level rise. Today the region experiences 10 tidal floods per year. …
Issue: July-August 2023
At Home with Harvard: Traveling for the Story
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … in 2004 , I entered the overnight lives of astronomers, who rise for breakfast at 6 p.m., observe all night, return to …
Planting Seeds of Culture
… set out on an ambitious journey to photograph members of every Native American tribe in the United States, with the hope of shedding light on the lives and experiences of Native …
The Challenges of Greener Cities
… The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CBGC) … and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design, ranging from why holistic … as well as their carbon footprint,” he said. “To my surprise, that’s only about a third of what we are responsible …
The Buddies in the Boat
… Olmsted’s recurring dream: “I’m back at Harvard,” said the former Crimson lightweight oarsman, “and I go down to … row anymore—you’re 70 years old! You’ve got to get out of the boathouse!’” But this past weekend, the 70-year-old … Olmsted was once again stroking for Harvard. Rowing out of Newell Boathouse in a borrowed Harvard shell with crimson …
Fifteen Percent of Immortality
… Andrew Wylie ’70 was trying to get a job as a book editor. “They would ask what I was reading,” Wylie says, “and I would … to sit around reading the bestseller list--the bound form of daytime television.” Wylie’s publishing credentials were … in French literature but for his brash political blunder of trashing one of his thesis advisers in the thesis itself. …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Club of Boston Sued by Waitstaff
… The Harvard Club of Boston is being sued by its waitstaff for alleged violations of the Massachusetts tips law. At the request of three … there is no paid sick leave in the first year; it rises to five days after one year of service and 10 days …
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
Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
… Harvard’s course offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and … when certain kinds of transformations happen, fields that rise, fields that fall,” Schnapp continues. “So, in a sense, …
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
President Faust on the Corporation: Stirrings of Change?
… During the regularly scheduled Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … the University and FAS in particular, discussion has arisen about how budgets were made and spending priorities …
William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine
… and oral regenerative medicine, will succeed Bruce Donoff as the dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), Harvard …