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Investigative journalism, alive and well
Investigative reporting is an increasingly rare luxury for many news organizations. A Shorenstein Center roundtable featuring the finalists for the Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism proved that with resources, hard work, and collaboration, the craft can thrive.
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If he builds it, the artists come
Ed Lloyd inherited a famous gallery designed by the architect Le Corbusier. As the Carpenter Center’s exhibitions manager, he regularly transforms that space to bring current works of art to life.
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Academia, meet the press
With its increasingly popular website called Journalist’s Resource, the Shorenstein Center is putting academia’s insights at reporters’ fingertips, and making a broader case for knowledge-based reporting.
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Palin’s game-changing legacy
Political journalists Mark Halperin ’87 and John Heilemann, M.P.A. ’90, returned to Harvard Thursday night to screen and discuss the new HBO Films adaptation of their best-seller “Game Change,” showing that the drama of Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential nomination can still draw an enthusiastic crowd.
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The business of changing the world
What will the next generation of social entrepreneurs need to succeed? Analysts debated the future of the budding field — and Harvard students demonstrated it — at Harvard Kennedy School on Feb. 24.
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Right choice, but not the intuitive one
When faced with a tough choice, we already have the cognitive tools we need to make the right decision, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, told a Harvard Law School audience on Feb. 16. The hard part is overcoming the tricks our minds play on us that render rational decision-making nearly impossible.
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Immersed in the body politic
Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.
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Remembering the co-ed experiment
A search sheds light on the controversial turning point 40 years ago when men and women first shared housing in Pforzheimer and Winthrop.
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Less bluster, more action
America’s tenuous relationship with Pakistan has faced one test after another in the past year. To rebuild trust and form a true partnership, both sides have to accept blame, said Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, at Harvard Kennedy School on Feb. 13.
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The melding of American music
Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.
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Neighbors for the 21st century
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.
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Helping scholars find library nooks
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.
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Not your average road trip
Harvard Business School just sent all 900 first-year M.B.A. students into the field to solve real-world problems in emerging markets from Buenos Aires to Mumbai, in the most ambitious element of an experimental new course. HBS, pioneer of the celebrated case-study method, is working to craft a business education model for the 21st century.
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The right way to report wrongdoing
The University’s comprehensive new policy on whistleblowing aims to make reporting legal or ethical breaches both safe and easy for all members of the Harvard community.
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Women as peacemakers
Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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The Civil War’s allures, and horrors
People are “powerfully attracted to war,” Harvard President Drew Faust told a crowd at the Cambridge Public Library on Jan. 10, and no conflict draws as much continuing interest and controversy in America as its own Civil War. The historian’s job is to balance that allure with a search for the truth, Faust said.
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Rethinking work, beyond the paycheck
Eighty years ago, the idea that workers were purely rational beings motivated solely by money dominated American business. But a famous study known as the Hawthorne Experiments, led by two men at Harvard Business School, helped to found the human relations movement.
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Helping women help themselves
Victoria Budson always wanted to aid the cause of gender equality. As executive director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, she helps to develop leaders, too.
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A quarter-century, and still going strong
Annual ceremony honors 142 longtime employees, the keepers of Harvard’s institutional identity. But they’re more than just the guardians of a legacy — sometimes they’re guardian angels, too.
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Thinking green, and thinking big
At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.
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Building the Harvard Library
The Harvard University Library’s senior leadership team is now in place, an important step in the transition process that will set the course for the library’s future.
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Jobs wanted
Parts of the U.S. economy have been recovering for more than a year, but American jobs haven’t yet returned along with renewed profits. Harvard experts offer insights into what large-scale unemployment means for the nation, and what policymakers and others can do to fix a balky system.
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Introducing the i-lab
The Harvard Innovation Lab officially opened to the public Nov. 18. The ribbon cutters included President Drew Faust and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
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Taking the pulse of Harvard
Harvard is launching a University-wide staff survey for the first time since 2008. The brief questionnaire will gauge employees’ opinions on Harvard as a workplace.
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Lights, cameras, reaction
Harvard Kennedy School students train to be leaders in the public sector — with the emphasis on public. A popular program makes the spotlight, whether in front of a camera, an audience, or a keyboard, less intimidating.
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Feeding a bigger family
Growing up in a home of 14, David Davidson was used to big Thanksgiving dinners. As the new managing director of Harvard’s Dining Services, he’s now preparing to feed hundreds.
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Harvard’s startup upstart
Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.
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All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.
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Students vs. computer
Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan students put IBM’s groundbreaking, “Jeopardy!”-winning computer to the test in a live match-up on Oct. 31. But outsmarting Watson, it turns out, is a not-so-elementary task.
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Settling scores
The famously detailed scores of conductor Sir Georg Solti will now live at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library — and soon on the Web. A reception celebrated a new exhibit of his work, as well as the visit of Solti’s widow and the collection’s donor, Lady Solti.
