Features

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

Participants recall the Harvard bust and strike, and its aftermath

Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances

The Examined Life

Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly? 

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s Womanless History

Completing the University’s self-portrait 

Confronting pitfalls of machine learning, artificial intelligence

Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines

by Jonathan Shaw

Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies

Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Profile of Daniela Lamas, a critical-care physician

Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ulysses S. Grant profile by Elizabeth D. Samet

Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Harvard Business School's New Take on Teaching Management

The Business School’s new take on teaching management

by John S. Rosenberg

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen

Karen King, historian of the early Christian church

Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.

by Lydialyle Gibson