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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 …
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. …
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
New Masters of Pforzheimer House
… College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today that professor of the history of science Anne Harrington ’82 and her …
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
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
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 …
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,” …
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
Who Built the Pyramids?
… The pyramids and the Great Sphinx rise inexplicably from the desert at Giza, relics of a vanished culture. They dwarf the approaching sprawl of …
Issue: July-August 2003
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
… This is the ninth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home … medicine, and more, here . On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Harvard Magazine has pulled from its archives … day, as this article explains , maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that people living in places where fine-particle …
Stand-Up to Simmer Down
… where student organizations vie for superlatives—from the nation’s “oldest continuously published student … campus as OTI— during her undergraduate years. She was one of many students drawn over the years to Harvard’s constellation of improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy groups. These clubs …
Issue: July-August 2025
A Revival of Yiddish?
… Ruth Wisse at McGill, would seem at first glance living proof that Yiddish is indeed being revived. Lansky, who set off … Yiddish books in danger of being lost, is now director of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, … theater, and vintage films, in addition to his own enterprise. However, the Yiddish language, he says, is af tsoris …
New Museum on Fast Track
… in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s incipient Allston campus. Some facility is needed urgently in which to put a quarter of a million art objects, and the staff who look after them, …
Issue: March-April 2007