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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
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 …
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
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 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 …
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
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 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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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