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Neuroeconomics
… Certain patterns of response to rewards seem to be biologically embedded in the human brain. A branch of behavioral economics called … is less straightforward than, say, playing slot machines and losing money. Yet it is one of the most …
Issue: March-April 2006
Inauguration of Drew Faust
… as well as in-depth coverage, slideshow, and audio from the event... Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and … in the November-December 2007 issue). Listen to audio of the inauguration celebrations below. Review of Events and …
Issue: November-December 2007
Focusing on the Face
… The photograph that opens the first chapter of Melissa … Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard is of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre himself, the unlikely …
The New Crew
… Barton ’24 and Isabella Cho ’24 to its editorial staff as the 2023-2024 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. … the November-December issue, they will alternate as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, contributing articles in … policy, and previously interned at the American Enterprise Institute’s poverty studies department and in the …
Issue: September-October 2023
Beyond the Bubble
… The torrent of venture-funded Internet start-ups and wildly successful initial public stock offerings by such companies from 1998 through early 2000 … and "business to consumer" electronic-commerce enterprises--transmogrified into students' new-old career …
The Shah of Iran Proposed a Universal Welfare Legion
… The shah of Iran addressed alumni and new graduates on … afternoon in 1968, proposing an “international counterpart of the Peace Corps” in the name of entering “a holy struggle …
Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar
… at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum through December 15, offers 26 large-scale works by the Nigerian-born, Kansas-based conceptual artist. Given her … desktop computer—displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire Working Woman montage. It’s as if the woman is …
Issue: November-December 2019
150 Years of Glee
… During its first international tour, in 1921, the Harvard Glee Club inspired French composers Francis … project. In 2000, Bernard E. Kreger ’59, secretary of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, donated $25,000 (which … was matched by the foundation) to commission a new piece of men’s choral music annually, culminating in a major work …
Issue: March-April 2008
William Rawn: Patterns of Place
… architect William Rawn (read “Architecture in Concert” from the September-October 2012 issue) describes “patterns of place” and discusses how they apply to his design for the … Library, an acclaimed building that opened in 2009. Video of the library building and its site illustrates the points …
Issue: September-October 2012
Stand Up: HBS Marks 50 Years of Women
… In 1963, eight women crossed the Charles River to crack a barrier that had stood for more than half a century at Harvard, becoming the first of their gender to enroll in the Business School’s two-year … far from reaching parity with their male peers: they comprise only 4 percent of Fortune 500 Company CEOs, run less …
The California Meltdown
… by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its … to the electricity market. Frustrated by the high costs of long-term contracts and investments in electric power, … to accommodate growing demand. Given the problems that had arisen in the "good old days" of regulation--such as …
Issue: September-October 2001
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Readers The “7 Ware Street” column does not appear in this issue, … decided it was important to make space available for more of your letters to the editor, of which there were … disease (COVID, anyone?), global warming, sea-level rise, species extinction, aggravated by Man’s unfortunate …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
… Surprise is Ferran Adrià’s stock in trade. He delights the diners at elBulli, his restaurant near Barcelona, with … served hot; a “bubble tea” drink in which the liquid tastes of prosciutto and the bubbles of melon; and jellybean-like …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
… College announced today that 2,056 students have been offered admission to the class of 2021 ( including the 938 accepted last December under the …
Yesterday's News
… 1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to provide cancer treatments. The machine … be run at half its full capacity. 1942 Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands, in exile during the Nazi occupation of …
Issue: July-August 2002