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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
The Business of Design Thinking
… at Harvard Business School back in August 2011 with a lofty goal: merge two seemingly opposite fields—business and … Thinking [a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result], yet there were no classes or formal training as part of the HBS …
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 …
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
… When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among … equity to the forefront,” explains Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and a …
Issue: May-June 2022
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
… Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no …
AI as Cancer Oracle?
… Computational biologist Chris Sander and other scientists have developed a method for using artificial intelligence to identify people at high risk of pancreatic cancer, solely from national health records. … a risk factor appeared in a patient’s medical record of symptoms and diagnoses, but when it appeared in the …
Issue: May-June 2024
Clothes Overboard!
… The first hot-air balloon trip across the English Channel … had hoped to leave Jeffries behind, despite his funding of the expedition). But floating technology in 1785 wasn’t … toward a forest too extensive to traverse. Needing both to rise above thick tree trunks and halt momentum, it …
Issue: May-June 2021
Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises
… students, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … Exercises this spring. To accommodate the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that any interested … of the ceremony the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Education Business
… Ever since the later nineteenth century, American schools -- from … in the last 30 years. But recent results have caused a bit of backlash. How, exactly, have economic pressures shaped … influence of business-inspired approaches" (Cuban) has arisen in the last three decades. The force of money has …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
… As reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun … health and safety first; protecting the academic enterprise; leveraging our breadth and diversity; and preserving …
"Hot Time in the Old Town": New York City's Deadly Heat Wave of 1896
… Most of us enduring this summer's heat waves will feel lucky … after reading this book. Edward P. Kohn ’90's Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt is concerned …
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
… London cabbies are famous for knowing their way around their city’s maze of streets. To obtain a taxi license in London, drivers must … test requiring them to memorize the names and locations of 25,000 streets, as well as landmarks and businesses. …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard College Admits 4.6 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2022
… The College has admitted 1,962 of 42,749 applicants to the class of 2022 (nearly half of them—964—had already been admitted …
The Senior Celebrants
… Two 99-year-olds— Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, L ’33, of Kennebunk, Maine—the oldest graduates present on Commencement day, were …
Issue: July-August 2008
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner Named Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year
… In-person celebrations for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man and Woman of the Year Awards will resume this year as the Pudding Pot … Jason Bateman with the 55th annual Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award,” said Pudding President Nick Amador. …