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Harvard Commencement 2025

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

Andrew Wylie

Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie

Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.

by Craig Lambert

Nicholas Christakis

Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak

Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Jay Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana offer a new paradigm for executive compensation

Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation

by Jay Lorsch , Rakesh Khurana

A wedding photograph of Masauko and Catherine (Ajizinga) Chipembere. Years later, Catherine Chipembere served as deputy minister of health and population in the Malawian government.

Brief life of Malawian nationalist Masauko Chipembere

Brief life of a pioneering African nationalist: 1930-1975

Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?

Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.

by Jonathan Shaw

Professor Dyann Wirth leads the Harvard Malaria Initiative.

Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics

Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.

by Courtney Humphries

Late at night, Harvard Crimson staffers put to bed the last issue before winter break.

Super-active students are over-scheduled

College students today lead hyper-active, highly scheduled lives.

by Craig Lambert

Johnny Green, with his trademark white carnation and some of his musical works

American composer Johnny Green

Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989

by Sol Hurwitz

Old Beijing and new: traditional homes and encroaching high-rises

Changing, Challenging China

A Harvard Magazine roundtable

Nanoscience in photographs

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.