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Strategic Planning
… Bashkansky ’25 could spend hours at a chessboard pondering the perfect move. But as a child playing in competitive … time limits, such painstaking deliberation wasn’t possible—often to her frustration. During one match when she was 12, … position, agonizing over the potential consequences of her decision 15 or 20 moves down the line. “In this case, …
Issue: March-April 2024
Amid Tradition, a Symbol of Change
… The New York Times profiles Nicole M. Parent ’93, the first female president of the Harvard Club of New York City, which did not even …
The “Bilingual” G.M.
… It’s not quite 10,000 men of Harvard, but scanning the Cleveland Browns organizational chart at times must feel … of football operations with the Philadelphia Eagles. His rise has been meteoric. After graduation, the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Climate-Change Solutions
… Against the backdrop of student-led protests urging divestment from … scene: impacts in terms of droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, heavy flooding, and precipitation.” On the other hand, …
The Storyteller
… his nervous first meeting with his faculty adviser, professor of mathematical statistics Frederick Mosteller. At the end, … meeting, above, illustrates both. Readers may be surprised by some of Light's discoveries about diversity. …
The Tensions That Roiled Texas
… Loeb University Professor Annette Gordon-Reed is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning history, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family . Her … people—with abhorrence.… It should come as no surprise that my teachers were not inclined to deal with all of …
Issue: May-June 2021
In Praise of Giraffes
… ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, … Libyan revolution in 1969 and later to the northern border of what was then South Vietnam. Today Graham says of this … part of a person instead of just the head part.” No surprise, then, that Stick Your Neck Out, in addition to …
Issue: November-December 2005
Better-than-Balanced Books
… Faster revenue growth , plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal year ended June 30, up … as usual, in November), Berman pointed to several surprises. In a competitive environment, federally sponsored …
Issue: November-December 2005
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
… The College has admitted 1,950 of 43,330 applicants to the class of 2023 (935 of whom were admitted through early action in …
100 Years of HSPH
… Courtesy of the Harvard School of Public Health Julio Frenk The launch … physical and social environments; poverty and humanitarian crises; and failing health systems Across fields, HSPH is … the whole lifespan,” he says. And even as obesity is on the rise in developed nations, the developing world still …
Financial Aid: Bending the Curve
… The College today introduced changes in undergraduate … aid—effective next fall, for the entering class of 2016—that reduce support for higher-income families and … approximately $120 million; the term bill for that year had risen to $47,215). The new policy featured: An income-based …
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
… The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 …
Issue: July-August 2021
Imagining the Past
… she started writing a novel about France during and after the Second World War, Sara Houghteling ’99 felt as if she’d … art collection. Her narrator, Max Berenzon, is the son of a famous Jewish art dealer who, for reasons Max doesn’t … Rose works in a museum, surreptitiously making records of the Nazis’ looting. (Of the more than 100,000 pieces of …
Issue: January-February 2009
College Admits 7.9 Percent of Early Applicants
… The College has admitted 7.9 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2026, slightly up from the 7.4 percent admitted from that …
The Many Faces of Boston
… The ancestors of most Bostonians may have hailed from Ireland and Italy, but the current top two immigrant groups are from China and the Dominican Republic, according to City of Neighborhoods: The Changing Face of Boston, an exhibit at …
Issue: July-August 2014