Tag: faculty speaker series

  • Nation & World

    A better way of living

    Aaron Bernstein, associate director for Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, studies how changes in transportation, diet, and energy can immediately benefit health.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How the mom-and-pop can compete in a changed marketplace

    HBS teachers draw on 30 years of industry data at a Harvard Ed portal talk aimed at helping small business owners develop strategies to compete in a changed marketplace.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Want to do well? Then do good

    Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.

    6 minutes
    “Entrepreneurship is a tool for providing something beneficial to society," Steven Rogers, M.B.A. '85, told his Ed Portal audience.
  • Nation & World

    The mystery of the brain examined

    “Toward an Artificial Brain” brought the results of a Harvard-led effort to Allston with an Ed Portal discussion.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The tools of art

    Inspired by creative solutions that evolved in Colombia and Argentina, Harvard Professor Doris Sommer showed her Ed Portal audience how the arts could transform the ways in which a developing society perceived itself and the values inherent in its culture and community.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A.R.T. sets the scene in Allston

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal is offering a new playwriting program, which links youngsters and professionals from the American Repertory Theater.

    5 minutes