Tag: Christina Pazzanese

  • Science & Tech

    From decisive to dithering

    A new research paper co-authored by HBS Professor Michael I. Norton finds that calibrating the decision-making process helps drive our appeal and influence over others.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Gaining traction

    One year into his tenure, Dean James Ryan of the Harvard Graduate School of Education is setting a course for the future.

    17 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The fumbles in Ferguson

    Crisis management expert Herman “Dutch” Leonard talks about how the confrontation in Ferguson, Mo., was mishandled.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Running the show

    Newly elected the next commissioner of Major League Baseball, Harvard Law School grad Rob Manfred talks about the future of the game.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Targeting teacher tenure

    HGSE economist Tom Kane explains the issues behind the debate over tenure policies for public school teachers in New York and California.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Radio revolution

    In a new paper, Shorenstein Fellow Steve Oney details the radical vision of NPR????s earliest days.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seeing what leaders miss

    Max Bazerman, a leadership and applied behavioral psychology expert at HKS and HBS, writes that successful leaders must seek out what they don’t know to overcome the human tendency to turn a blind eye to unethical behavior.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making hay while sun shines

    Students at HGSE are hard at work building new companies they hope will someday transform learning and young lives.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Dining alfresco

    The 39th Annual Senior Picnic celebration welcomes Cambridge seniors to Harvard Yard.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Chinese economists zero in on crises

    Economist Lawrence Summers and foreign policy expert Graham Allison talk about lessons learned from a Chinese research team’s comparison of the conditions around the Great Depression and the recession of 2008.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Family strife

    Harvard Business School’s John A. Davis, who chairs the Families in Business program, talks about the struggles that companies like New England grocery chain Market Basket face when family members are at the helm.

    9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Good times, still on tap

    Harvard Square dive bar Charlie’s Kitchen has one waitress as legendary as itself.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Renewing urban renewal

    Edward Glaeser, an economics, government, and public policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School, and Jerold Kayden, an urban planning and design professor at the Graduate School of Design, discuss findings from a new Brookings Institution study on the rise of innovation districts across the nation.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Denial of coverage

    A question-and-answer session probes the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that for-profit companies can object to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate on religious grounds.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Disarray at the VA

    In a question-and-answer session, Linda Bilmes, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses how to fix serious shortcomings in the management of Veterans Affairs.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Meeting of the minds

    Harvard Business School’s disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen uses crowdsourcing to accelerate the evolution of his latest theory on corporate investment decisions.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women at war

    Three veteran war correspondents talk about the increasingly dangerous job of reporting from conflict zones.

    8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Snapshots of a sun-splashed day

    A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

    18 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    From Tonga to Tercentenary

    Moana ′Ulu′ave, a Tongan-American who is getting her master’s from the Graduate School of Education, is bringing her storytelling culture to a wider world.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Lean in, speak out

    At Class Day ceremonies, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg urged graduates to confront hard truths and address wrongs they find in the world.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Beyond the horizon

    Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Punitive damages

    Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a clinical law professor and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, talks about U.S. crime and incarceration policies that have led to an unprecedented rate of mass imprisonment. He also discusses the reforms that might reverse that upward trend.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The next Google

    Google chairman Eric Schmidt talks about innovation and leadership in the digital age at the Harvard Kennedy School.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The quantum of cruelty

    A former general counsel for the U.S. Navy, among the earliest Pentagon critics of detainee abuse, offers firsthand insights into the findings of the still-secret Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture.

    9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    By the people, for the people

    Annual dinner honors Harvard staff who became U.S. citizens with help from the Harvard Bridge Program and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Power suits

    Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Measuring the marathon

    A new report by Harvard crisis-management and criminal-justice experts, and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, considers the factors that led to the successes and failures of last year’s emergency response to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Paychecks for college athletes?

    Peter Carfagna, a sports law expert at Harvard Law School, talks about growing legal pressure on the NCAA to reconsider the way it treats student-athletes.

    11 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Science on a plate

    Two Harvard College students deliver pizza (with some STEM education baked in) to Cambridge middle school kids.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A fresh bite of the Apple

    A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.

    5 minutes