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Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Invites is a podcast featuring inspirational conversations with exceptional entrepreneurs and innovators about the strategies they used, lessons they learned, and what makes them stand out.

Expand your understanding of the ways religion shapes the world with lectures, interviews, and reflections from Harvard Divinity School.

On the Harvard International Roundtable our hosts discuss, dissect, and deliberate some of the latest articles written for the Harvard International Review, a quarterly journal offering insight on international affairs from the perspectives of scholars, leaders, and policymakers, started by undergraduates at Harvard in 1979.

The podcast is about being Black in America for more than 80 years... as seen through the eyes of The Last Negroes at Harvard. There were 18 of us. We were in the Class of 1963. Before we leave the planet, we have a lot to say and people we want to talk to.

Brought to you by the award winning journal, Harvard Data Science Review, our podcast highlights news, policy, and business through the lens of data science. Each episode is a “case study” into how data is used to lead, mislead, manipulate, and inform the important decisions facing us today.

In the complex world of education, the Harvard EdCast keeps the focus simple: what makes a difference for learners, educators, parents, and our communities. The EdCast is a weekly podcast about the ideas that shape education, from early learning through college and career. We talk to teachers, researchers, policymakers, and leaders of schools and systems in the US and around the world — looking for positive approaches to the challenges and inequities in education. Through authentic conversat ...

Harvard Islamica, the podcast of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, explores topics related to the scholarly study of Islam and Muslim societies at Harvard and beyond.

Tomas Vargas Harvard is an investment management professional. He has managed multibillion-dollar equity and fixed income investment portfolios.

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A podcast presented by Harvard Magazine. Managing editor Jonathan Shaw sits down with some of the world’s most thoughtful scholars to discuss everything from academic ethics – to hip hop music and medical marijuana.

Podcast by Harvard Innovation Labs

Newstalk is The Harvard Crimson's flagship news podcast series. Join our reporters each week to hear the most important stories from the Harvard community and beyond. Streamed in all 50 states. Heard in 100+ countries. 2024 Associated Collegiate Press National Podcast of the Year.

Skydeck offers listeners an intimate look at the lives of Harvard Business School alumni—not just their achievements and innovations, but how they live their lives.

Presidents. Movie stars. Entrepreneurs. A unabomber. Many impressive (alongside a few downright crazy) people have been affiliated with Harvard over the years. Before they were famous on the world's stage, they were all anonymous teenagers, trying to plot their future. Each episode, we interview one of these people to learn about their Harvard experience and how it shaped who they are today.

HMS scientists tackle a variety of important questions, ranging from how your neurons work to which genes play a role in particular diseases. Our podcast gives you the scoop on some of this work, providing context and highlighting the latest trends in medical education and biomedical research.

Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. PHOTO: by Gustavo Quepón on Unsplash

Harvard prides itself on providing its students with a “transformative experience”. Join Samyra every other Thursday where she spills the tea on various aspects of this experience and what it’s really like to be a student at Harvard. Presented by The Harvard Crimson, published on alternating Thursdays. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Harvard University's SoundCloud channel shares audio content about life and learning that takes place here on campus and around the world. Harvard is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candid ...

On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we’re exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they’re really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered.

HARVARD ALUMNI FOR EDUCATION (HAEd) SIG aims to create a strong, connected, collaborative community of Harvard University alumni who are practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the field of education.

Harvard is an award-winning communications agency for tech brands big and small. We make technology personal. Following research we published last year, we’ll be using this podcast series to dig into the role tech brands play in people’s lives today - and what that means for the communications industry. We’ll be talking to tech CEOs, CMOs and other comms people to learn how the sector can keep thriving despite increasingly tough media coverage and changing customer demands. Find out more her ...

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University (The Mittal Institute) engages in interdisciplinary research to advance and deepen the understanding of critical issues of South Asia and its relationship to the world.

The Fairbank Center is a world-leading center on China at Harvard University. Listen to interviews on our "Harvard on China" podcast, recordings from our public events, and audio from our archives.

Les études de cas de Harvard Business Review, même si elles sont romancées, s'inspirent de problèmes réels et concrets, vécus au quotidien aussi bien par les dirigeants que par les salariés. Une question est posée et, pour y répondre, HBR fait, à chaque fois, appel à deux experts, qui n'ont pas le même avis. Ce qui permet d'être éclairé sans être influencé. Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d’informations.

Introduction to principles of software engineering for mobile devices and best practices, including code reviews, source control, and unit tests. Topics include Ajax, encapsulation, event handling, HTTP, memory management, MVC, object-oriented design, and user experience. Languages include HTML5, JavaScript, Objective-C, and PHP. Projects include mobile web apps and native iOS apps. This is OpenCourseWare, licensed by David J. Malan of Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution- ...

Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundan ...

The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University seeks to foster comprehensive understanding and multidisciplinary study of Russia and the countries of Eurasia. Founded in 1948 as the Russian Research Center, the Davis Center sponsors a master's program, seminars and conferences, targeted research, fellowships, undergraduate and graduate student support, and an outreach program. The center's more than 300 affiliates come from Harvard Univer ...

Although we may believe we possess unlimited freedom to decide our lives, infact our scope is restricted, and we have much less space to choose than wethink. This makes it all the more vital that we sharpen and focus ourdecision-making skills so as to make maximum use of every available choiceopportunity in our business and personal lives. We also need insight into the decision-making styles of ourselves and others, so that we can shape our performance and adjust our thinking to suit changin ...

Incredible progress has been made throughout the world in recent years. However, globalization has failed to deliver on its promises. As problems like unequal access to education and healthcare, environmental degradation, and stretched finances persist, we must continue building on decades of transformative development work. The Center for International Development (CID) is a university-wide center based at the Harvard Kennedy School that seeks to solve these pressing development problems—an ...

This is The Dive. We bring you experts from Harvard, Stanford and beyond for conversations on the most pressing issues. From the coronavirus pandemic to the US election cycle and the climate crisis, this is an original news podcast for curious and inquiring thinkers.

Today's applications are increasingly mobile. Computers are no longer confined to desks and laps but instead live in our pockets and hands. This course teaches students how to build mobile apps for Android and iOS, two of today's most popular platforms, and how to deploy them in Android Market and the App Store. Students learn how to write native apps for Android using Eclipse and the Android SDK, how to write native apps for iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads using Xcode and the iOS SDK, and ...

Today's websites are increasingly dynamic. Pages are no longer static HTML files but instead generated by scripts and database calls. User interfaces are more seamless, with technologies like Ajax replacing traditional page reloads. This course teaches students how to build dynamic websites with Ajax and with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), one of today's most popular frameworks. Students learn how to set up domain names with DNS, how to structure pages with XHTML and CSS, how to progr ...

Twenty-five years after graduating from Harvard College, members of the Class of 1997 come together in this series of conversations to reconnect, share stories, and reflect on lessons learned outside of the classroom. Hear from this cohort of diverse classmates about how their lives have unfolded and where they find themselves now. What was it like arriving at Harvard all those years ago? How does the privilege of a Harvard education and degree impact opportunities and decisions after gradua ...

This course introduces XML as a key enabling technology in Java-based applications. Students learn the fundamentals of XML and its derivatives, including DTD, SVG, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSL-FO, and XSLT. Students also gain experience with programmatic interfaces to XML like SAX and DOM, standard APIs like JAXP and TrAX, and industry-standard software like Ant, Tomcat, Xerces, and Xalan. The course acquaints students with J2EE, including JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet, and also ...

Mark Penn and Bob Cusack discuss findings of the latest Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll - https://harvardharrispoll.com - released monthly by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and Harris Insights and Analytics.Penn is a former presidential pollster, Chairman of The Harris Poll and Chairman and CEO of Stagwell Global. Bob Cusack is Editor in Chief of The Hill.Conducted online within the United States, every survey captures the responses of over 2,000 registered voters. The results re ...

This course is all about understanding: understanding what's going on inside your computer when you flip on the switch, why tech support has you constantly rebooting your computer, how everything you do on the Internet can be watched by others, and how your computer can become infected with a worm just by being turned on. Designed for students who use computers and the Internet every day but don't fully understand how it all works, this course fills in the gaps. Through lectures on hardware, ...

Voir Dire is an interview-based podcast about criminal justice reform. Sometimes, we share the conversations taking place on Harvard’s campus; other times, we start conversations outside of those small classrooms. Working or living in the criminal legal system can habituate you to the cruelty and wastefulness of the whole thing. In this podcast, we try to contextualize these systems, pick the brains of the most thoughtful people in criminal justice reform, and think big about how to ameliora ...