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Business Leadership and the Future of Markets: Helping “Capitalism Save Itself from Itself”
… It seemed urgently timely, and strangely disorienting, for the Harvard Business School (HBS) Centennial Global Business … plans to inject $250 billion into United States banks—some of them unwilling recipients—and as presidential candidates … given the inevitable challenges and problems that arise in any organization. He cited the management wisdom of …
Off the Shelf
… Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies , by Sara Lewis ’75, RI ’90 … to quietly devastating (“Cities are destroyed by fire / And rise again; / Conquering armies melt away, / Hemorrhaging …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Indispensable Power
… has never been so important as now, when we are confronting the most serious crises since the Second World War: the global pandemic and economic collapse. When we emerge finally from the grip of the coronavirus, Americans will need to account for a …
Issue: July-August 2020
Brew’s Clues
… Nearly eight years ago, Theresa McCulla ’04, Ph.D. ’17, crouched in the middle of Mass. Ave., collecting the set of chef’s knives that had … or bulletins circulated among homebrew clubs before the rise of the Internet, are “really a kind of goldmine for a …
Issue: March-April 2018
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 …
Challenges on the Field and Off
… Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing … why Harvards Division 1-AA football program would never rise to Division 1-A, as a mean-spirited attack on the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Behind the Healthcare Debate
… The healthcare reform proposals under consideration in … this year “are not pretty,” Yale political-science professor Jacob S. Hacker ’94 told an audience at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on September 25. “They are meant to …
Jane Rosenzweig
… In 2022, Jane Rosenzweig published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, “What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing”—the first of several she’s produced about artificial intelligence …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Omicron Semester
… As the Omicron variant spread at year-end, Harvard announced a rapid-fire set of measures to control community transmission. Highlights … that in light of the surge—weekly average cases had risen from 52 during the fall, when the campus was fully …
Issue: March-April 2022
After the Pandemic’s Peak
… The good news is that the bad news isn’t so bad. That’s a quick interpretation of dean Claudine Gay’s annual report on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the accompanying financial …
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
… For decades , Laurie Anderson dreamed of having a late-night radio show. She wanted to reach people during that period of time when “most of the listeners are half-asleep or trying to get back to …
The Provost Meets the Press...
… M.D. '71, M.P.P. '72, Ph.D. '80, who had served as dean of the School of Public Health since 1984, was appointed … of the University who is trying to look out over the enterprise as a whole. To make a corporate analogy, I'd say that …
The Journalist as Citizen
… On Tuesday night , in the first of three talks she’ll give at Harvard this week, … no one told her not to go. Only afterward did the idea arise that it was a mistake. “It seemed impossible,” …
Colin Powell Discussed the Role of the Military
… afternoon in 1993, he was finishing his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton. His prospective …
Centuries of Flowers
… The disruptions resulting from World War II and its … extended to European gardens, including “a large majority of the great historical examples of garden design,” as John S. Thatcher, a former director of …
Issue: November-December 2013