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The Student Commencement Speakers
… The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will … taught science and math. From his aptly-named hometown of Athens, Georgia, Meadows improved his Latin, winning … exactly how they function: “I think they’re really nifty machines that can do amazing chemistry." When Chou applied …
Keeping the Vibes
… How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation Services (APS) unit in the Loeb Music … spending this money to preserve?’ ” That question doesn’t arise with regard to the rare, obscure, and often …
Issue: May-June 2007
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
… Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose … brewing, and roasting. “Starbucks uses super-automatic machines; they just press a button and out it comes. They …
Issue: March-April 2018
Harvard in China: A Blog by Editor John Rosenberg
… from China, covering President Drew Faust's trip and other University projects in that country. See " Connecting … that frame the endless expanse and remarkable busy-ness of this city; a golden moonset this morning was a bonus. On … sell roasted yams (also available in malls in vending machines, rotisserie-style), fresh swirl-cut pineapple on a …
Your Friend, Fidel
… Sam From: Fidel Castro 26 July 2000 As I prepare to outwit the tenth U.S. President who might attempt to overthrow my … in years to come, today, on the forty-seventh anniversary of my successful revolutionary movement, I owe you thanks. … Square protests were nurtured internationally through fax machines. But you forbid the export of fax machines to Cuba. …
Why We Eat What We Do
… In the spring of 1910, the freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913 sat down at New American House … were invisible,” Chaplin explains. “They were just like machines that brought you what you wanted.” If a student …
Victorian Sound, Victorian Silence
… factories, roaring steam engines, and great, groaning machines, the Industrial Revolution made quite a racket. Surrounded by … Dickens and George Eliot to consider the possibilities of sound and silence as powerful literary symbols for …
Issue: November-December 2003
AI and Adversarial Attacks
… The privacy and security issues surrounding big data, the lifeblood of artificial intelligence, are well known: large streams … change decisions. A credit score, for example, might rise significantly if one of the data points used to …
Issue: January-February 2019
Business for the Other Billions
… State—a two-hour drive, when roads are passable, northeast of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous … “It’s crazy.” But despite its ambitions, their modest enterprise, Tomato Jos ( www.tomatojos.net ), is not crazy. Nor …
Issue: September-October 2015
Reimagining Cabot Library and the Science Center Common Spaces
… Prior to its redesign , the Cabot Science Library had opaque windows, uninviting first and second floors, and a lack of room for students needing to spend any meaningful amount of time there. Last month, the library re-opened with an …
Kitchen Arts
… and some wine,” says chef Jason Martin, as he strides into the kitchen at Dave’s Fresh Pasta , a gourmet deli and wine … not bashful,” says one woman. She pours the first glass of a crisp Austrian Grüner Veltliner and soon all 12 of the … with bowls, measuring cups, and a few Imperia Pasta Machines. Into a well of flour he pours a few beaten eggs, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Why the Internet of Things Is Big Business
… For those outside Silicon Valley , the “Internet of Things” is a buzzword often associated with … Review (HBR) last fall. Sensors in gadgets, appliances, and machines generate an unprecedented and growing volume of …
Issue: July-August 2015
Bill Gates at Harvard
… Editor’s note: Walter Isaacson ’74 , a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Steve Jobs and others, is …
Issue: November-December 2013
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
The Strategic Context: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
… An interview with Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University Professor, and Jan W. Rivkin, Rauner professor of business … administration and head of HBS’s strategy unit. Read the complete article, Can America Compete? … GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company …
Issue: September-October 2012