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President Bacow on Harvard in the Months Ahead
… have been expected to take a year-end victory lap on behalf of Harvard—students had a successful semester of in-person learning, faculty members conducted their research—President Lawrence S. Bacow found himself … the American Repertory Theater and the commercial enterprise research campus (including a University-funded, …
The Pioneering Crimson Women at the New York Times
… With the appointment of Jill Abramson '76 as executive editor of the New York Times —the first time a woman has held that …
The Future of Tuberculosis
… Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one …
The Lucky Effect
… in a white coat tells you about Jane, who found $5 on the sidewalk; Johnny, who was splashed by a passing car; … don’t like ) or a large smiling face ( really like ) or one of four in-between faces. Which face would you pick? If … in a recent study of bias in children, you’ll surprise everyone with how much more you prefer the lucky to the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Allston: The Killer App
… In the quarter-century since Harvard first perceived that its … management time—together totaling at least hundreds of millions of dollars; academic planning spanning parts of … could be privately financed; so could a proposed "enterprise research campus"—a commercial business park—at the …
Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
… President Drew Faust has appointed Smith professor of law Martha Minow dean of Harvard Law School, effective … July 1; she succeeds Elena Kagan, now solicitor general of the United States. Minow, a member of the faculty since …
Off the Shelf
… Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the … Press , $25.95). Here’s a tightly written narrative history of what happened when the late CIA analyst Samuel A. Adams …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Fiscal Crunch
… With no relief since the University’s early-December announcement that the … reported in much greater detail at the website): • Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators assume its … years; the share funded by endowment distributions has risen from 35 percent a decade ago to 56 percent now. And …
Issue: March-April 2009
Yesterday's News
… 1923 The committee examining Harvard’s admissions process … and a corresponding decrease in unsatisfactory marks as proof that upperclassmen have the “capacity and interest to … The University announces that tuition for the College will rise to $525 in the fall, the first increase in 20 years, …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Financial Fallout
… In the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard … in Washington (and around the world) may offset the crises more swiftly and effectively than can be forecast. … impaired, students’ needs for support may be expected to rise, for the duration of any recession. Within the College, …
A Quartet of Crises
… In retrospect, Harvard’s crisis during and after the Great Recession of 2008-2010 was a piece of cake. Yes, the University lost … . • These challenges arise against the backdrop of an adversarial political …
Issue: November-December 2020
Casing the Future
… For years, the "technology" of cases remained static. They were written documents consisting of text, tables, and illustrations. Today, however, …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Seven Liberal Arts
… These photographs show Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven … to Susan Dackerman’s catalog for Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe , even though the …
Of Software and Apples
… Sure, he's got the traits. He's young (34), bright, ambitious, intense, … peers ends there. For starters, his company, Eze Castle Software Incorporated, has thrived, growing steadily even … McLaughlin and his wife, Laura (Denessen), are the parents of six young children. As the eldest of 10 siblings himself, …
Issue: March-April 2004
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