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The Face in the Glass
… It is the disquieting habit of the compilers of the twenty-fifth-anniversary reports of …
Rethinking the Walls
… In the second-floor lobby of Hawes Hall: a large portrait of … that he missed art on campus in his M.B.A. days and was surprised at how many students and business colleagues did not …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Physics of Jackson Pollock’s Art
… skill gives us modern art.” But recent work by Valpine professor of mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan suggests that at least …
News from the HAA
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by … All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and governance, are entitled to vote … and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Societies: The Rise of Anti-Western Movements in the Islamic World.” The …
Issue: March-April 2007
After the Boom
… After a decade of explosive expansion for Harvard's two fastest-growing … schools, one faces a deficit and is cutting costs, while the other has hired a consulting firm to analyze its … soon drop dramatically. University-wide, the payout has risen as much as 28 percent in a recent year, but for the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Dorm of Bread and Honey
… Several years ago, the Jordan residential cooperatives, adjacent to Radcliffe Quad at the intersection of Shepard and Walker Streets, became dorms; they are now … Below, Robert Saarnio '74 ('92) recalls the flavor of Jordan cooperative living in its glory days. After …
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 …
The Plant Prospectors
… mornings , before classes, Michael Donoghue would roll out of bed in the “rickety old house” he shared with several other … more than 2,000 new plants to the West, including Acer griseum, the paperbark maple, known for its beautiful …
Issue: July-August 2016
How to Protest Effectively
… Gloria Browne-Marshall during a Tuesday evening event at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), “somebody had to protest … She gestured toward the multi-racial crowd sitting in front of her. “For us to be in this room, with this very diverse … A constitutional law scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, Browne-Marshall is the …
New Masters of Pforzheimer House
… College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today that professor of the history of science Anne Harrington ’82 and her …
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 …
Ripening Nicely
… Soon Harvard’s sidewalk superintendents will turn their attention to Allston because that’s where the hardhats … will oversee workers as they erect 10 million square feet of buildings there and increase the University’s physical … Drive housing project includes a building with a low-rise section, shown here in the background, and a high-rise …
Issue: May-June 2007
Mary Ingraham Bunting
… When a group of Radcliffe students in the early 1960s complained to Mary Ingraham Bunting about … standard tools of domesticity—vacuum cleaners and sewing machines—as well as apartments for junior-faculty families …
Issue: March-April 2006
Your Friend, Fidel
… Sam From: Fidel Castro 26 July 2000 As I prepare to outwit the tenth U.S. President who might attempt to overthrow my … in years to come, today, on the forty-seventh anniversary of my successful revolutionary movement, I owe you thanks. … Square protests were nurtured internationally through fax machines. But you forbid the export of fax machines to Cuba. …
The Innovation Engine
… When Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow stressed the vital role of immigrants in both higher education and the economy … U.S. entrepreneurs were born overseas, this number having risen steadily since at least 1995. Such patterns are more …
Issue: January-February 2019