Experience

Robert Putnam’s ‘Bowling Alone’ sounded an alarm we still haven’t answered

George Whitesides became a giant of chemistry by keeping it simple

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin recounts pioneering career spent tracing major part of U.S. workforce, economy hidden in plain sight

Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.

Head football coach Tim Murphy has led the Crimson to nine Ivy League championships, three unbeaten seasons, and a 186-83 record.

Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.

Jane Mansbridge, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory talks about her “jagged trajectory” toward success.

As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.

Pioneering AIDS researcher Myron “Max” Essex was one of the first to propose that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s dean of 28 years, Bruce Donoff, steps down in January. He discusses his years in leadership and life lessons learned along the way.

In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.

The first woman to earn tenure at the GSD and the first to chair the department of architecture has made a career of making statements.

The professor who put forward the idea of multiple intelligences talks about his adventures in learning for the Experience series.

Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape the higher ed leader, but it was illness that urged her forward.

Interview with Professor Pamela Silver as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Joseph Nye as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Nobel Prize winner Martin Karplus as part of the Experience series.

Interview with women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith as part of the Experience series.

Interview with geneticist George Church as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Helen Vendler as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Stephen Greenblatt as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Melissa Franklin as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Walter Willett as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Steven Pinker as part of the Experience series.

Interview with Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as part of the Experience series.