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Your Take: Work-Life Balance
… both work and family is always a challenge. But in surveys of graduates of Harvard and the University of Chicago, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz …
Issue: January-February 2010
African Bandwidth
… innovation works in developing economies, too—even where there is no established market leader to disrupt. Africa, … an unmanned aircraft, with a footprint about the size of a kitchen table, that has satellite access to the … I’m certain that the bandwidth and the reliability of access are not as good as what we enjoy here. But it’s …
Issue: July-August 2014
Random House Wins Standoff
… Random House Inc. and the Wylie literary agency have settled their dispute over … books that the Wylie Agency, whose eponymous founder was profiled in Harvard Magazine, had begun to publish in July … Wylie over e-book rights. … Random House wins literary standoff with Andrew Wylie's agency … 8467 … 8463 … 1505 … Random …
Share Your News
… Only Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences affiliates should use this form. Affiliates of other Harvard schools have other options—please see …
Vote Now
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed by … are announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day, May 24. All Harvard degree-holders …
Issue: March-April 2012
Retired Football Coach Dies
… Joe Restic, who guided the Crimson football program to a 117-97-6 record over 23 … seasons from 1971 to 1993, has died at age 85 after years of declining health. Restic's teams won five Ivy League … His signature innovation at Harvard was the "multiflex" offense, which deployed complex, shifting formations, …
Pay for Performance
… managers earned compensation totaling $41.1 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999--about 10 percent less, … weighted toward bonuses based on performance in excess of market benchmarks, declined for all of the recipients except Jeffrey Larson, a newcomer to the …
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Harvard Student Charged in Bomb Threat
… during final exams, report several news sources, including The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe . Charged with a single count of making a bomb hoax, Kim is facing up to five years in … to news reports, the threats were e-mailed to two Harvard officials, the campus police, and the student newspaper at …
Fall Sports in Brief
… Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-3, 2-0 Ivy) reeled off four wins to start their season, and beat Penn and Brown to kick off the Ivy campaign. Their three losses came against …
Dance Resources
… Among the organizations that lead and/or promote social dancing in … performances. (See dance lessons section for venues outside of Boston.) www.arnb.org/Northeast.php Cajun/Zydeco music … free-form dances. The website also has an extensive list of other kinds of dances to join. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Kick-off Event
… Friends of Harvard Magazine held its first event at the Harvard Faculty Club on March 9, 2003. The 115 guests … Helen Vendler, Harvard’s A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, about her new book, Coming of Age as a Poet. … …
John McPhee's Listener
… The Spring 2010 issue of the Paris Review , the literary … Gund ’61 who, like McPhee, lives in Princeton. ( Gund was profiled in 1997 in Harvard Magazine. ) An investor and former …
Restructuring Harvard Square
… Returning visitors may find themselves disoriented as familiar haunts undergo major … is being rebuilt as a high-end retail mall. The offices over Brattle (plywooded windows to the rear), also in new ownership, are being renovated. And Out of Town News has closed. … A familiar place’s new faces … …
Issue: January-February 2020
Job Notices
… internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning and working opportunities, contact the offices listed below. The Office of Career Services connects students with employers …
Issue: November-December 2007
Commencement 2005
… Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq" by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT and former director of the CIA June 8, 2005 Class Day Speech by Tim Russert, …