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The Rhodes Roster
… in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit? Check. Map? Check. Camera? Frantically, one of the conspirators searches his seemingly countless … South of L ___ house. 2:26 a.m. The section of tunnel that rises over the Charles, through ___ Bridge, eventually …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard Business School Class of...
… School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business administration Richard S. Tedlow and Nancy F. … School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business... … 2541 … Harvard Business School …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Originals
… C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was then a far-out notion: use a computer to arrange compatible … dropout who went on to become a Harvard Law School professor and nominee for the Supreme Court), they drafted … attracts—we knew that then," says Crump, today a law professor at the University of Houston. "But attraction is a …
Issue: March-April 2003
Freezing Out the Forwards
… The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice … minutes." Spending time in the penalty box is not the kind of achievement that usually makes a coach smile. But for a …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Childcare Crisis
… Siegel Muncey, Ed.M. ’05, met through a mutual friend when they were both pregnant. “Our babies were born within just a couple days of each other,” Kennedy says, “and like so many working … their day jobs to establish Neighborhood Villages , a nonprofit organization that advocates for solutions to the …
Dinner Without the Din
… After spending the evening at an unnamed establishment, hollering at fellow … Association, seeking guidance and maybe the names of a few of its 1,800 members who had successfully assuaged …
Issue: November-December 2015
Predicting Viral Variants and Vaccine Cures
… In medicine, “There’s a quiet revolution happening at the moment,” says professor of systems biology Debora Marks. Most people have … are around now—but also work against things that might arise in the future.” Generative AI has also enabled …
Issue: November-December 2024
Innovation at the Intersection
… success as inventors; few actually do. Lee Fleming, Weatherhead professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is …
Issue: May-June 2010
A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art
… both a time and a place,” said curator Rachel Saunders, at the start of a preview tour of “Painting Edo,” which opens today as the largest special …
The Crimson Party
… Remember the giant sucking sound as the Harvard professoriate drained … folk that the University was said to be "the fourth branch of government." The New Yorker ran a cartoon showing two old …
Anatomy as Entertainment
… Charles G. Gross ’57, professor of psychology at Princeton, studies visual … popularly. In a second collection of essays, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience (MIT, … no royal patronage of the arts. Furthermore, due to the rise of Calvinism, the Church no longer supported the arts. …
Issue: January-February 2010
Diagnosing the “Skills Gap”
… The problem : There’s a “skills gap” in the American … can’t find them—even as candidates applying to hundreds of jobs can’t get hired. The diagnosis: an underperforming … Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work (MFW), a disconnect between educators and employers …
How Does Hate Spread?
… In the months following Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and … response in Gaza, American Jews and Muslims have endured a rise in hatred. In the two months after October 7, the … not new phenomena. On May 1, Harvard convened four scholars of antisemitism and Islamophobia whose research began long …
A Life of Adventure and Delight
… “‘Anita sometimes reads the newspapers,’ Ma said, and then became quiet at the absurdity of her words,” writes author Akhil Sharma, J.D. ’98, in “If … woman,” Sharma writes in “Surrounded by Sleep.” “It surprised him that you couldn’t tell, looking at her, that she …
The Bird Man
… “They’re very special birds, but they could go extinct in the flash of an eye,” says Gus Bodner ’89 of the native Hawaiian birds he studies. The Ph.D. candidate …
Issue: September-October 2007