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...second lesson: Embrace risk??it is inescapable. You worry, I know, about the burden of Harvard, about “the pressure to be extraordinary” within a narrow definition of success, as one of you told me. “What will I say at my fifth reunion?” you wonder. What is “extraordinary enough”? It is, quite simply, having the courage to write your own script. You can be a risk taker. In fact, as we have learned, you will be a risk taker whatever you choose because...

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Some of the results were shocking, mostly that the women are really attacked everywhere and that everyone is at risk?? said Susan A. Bartels, a researcher at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, emergency room physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and primary author of the report. “I was shocked by the number of women who were attacked in their own home, specifically at night when they were sleeping with their families...

Author: By Stephanie E. Herwatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sexual Violence on the Rise in Congo | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...that it has been these teaching experiences that have led her to appreciate the effect that firsthand interactions have on people. The purpose of this event will be to build on the activities of the class and showcase the visiting writers here under the “Scholars at Risk?? program—an insufficiently funded project in which persecuted or at-risk writers are given an opportunity to pursue their work at Harvard...

Author: By Francis E. Cambronero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writers Series Event Breathes Life into Censored Authors’ Works | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...said that job applicants with HIV tests on their medical record are often considered “at risk?? by potential employers and face higher insurance premiums, and international students who test positive for HIV can be deported...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Mark AIDS Day | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...case that the wealthier institutions among us should be taking less risk??not more risk??because they’re less able to manage the volatility in their investment returns given their dependence upon those returns in their operating budgets,” said Bacow, a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School, in the interview...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tufts President Calls For Less Risky Investments | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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