Tag: cooperative

  • Nation & World

    Rapid acts of kindness

    In a series of experiments, Harvard researchers found that people who make quick decisions act less selfishly than those who deliberate.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fifty years of free-spirited living

    In September 1958, Harvard College senior Alfred Hurd moved to 3 Sacramento St., an old Victorian mansion the University had bought less than a year before. The rambling three-story house — with its interior of arched doorways, stained-glass windows, and tiled fireplaces — was the locus of an experiment: Harvard’s first cooperative housing dormitory.

    6 minutes