We Are Harvard

Composer: French Carol, arr. Mack Wilberg
Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director


Ding Dong! Merrily On High

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, November 21, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — Living Thankfully in the Reign of Christ | Memorial Church

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, September 5, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — First Things First | Memorial Church

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, August 29, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — Now That We Are Here | Memorial Church

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, April 4, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — The Courage of Easter Christians | Memorial Church

The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.

“Making Room” Claudia Rankine

“American Arithmetic” Natalie Diaz

1976 Modern Language Convention: Special Session on Elizabeth Bishop (December 28, 1976)

"In the Waiting Room" Elizabeth Bishop

“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka

As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.

Harvard Vocarium Recording (1951)

"Gerontion" T. S. Eliot

"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot

"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot

"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot

"Journey of the Magi" T. S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot

On the 100th Anniversary of explorer Ernest Shakleton’s colossal failure to traverse Antarctica, professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how Shackleton’s extraordinary crisis leadership ensured the survival of his crew. Listen for story of the Endurance expedition and lessons from the HBS case study. 

Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival | Harvard Business School

Composer: Franz Biebl — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Ave Maria

In episode nineteen we chat with Hugo Larochelle, Ryan introduces us to autoencoders, plus we tackle the question of what is standing in the way of strong AI.

Strong AI and Autoencoders

Radcliffe Fellow and poet Ross Gay reads his poem “Feet.”

Feet

Composer: Edward Elwyn Jones — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Suo Gân

John F. Kennedy recording for public speaking class at Harvard, 1937. Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives.
 
John F. Kennedy’s short speech was recorded on an aluminum phonograph disc during the 1937-38 fall term session of English F, a course on public speaking taught by Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr. Kennedy, then a sophomore at Harvard College, briefly discusses the appointment to the Supreme Court of Hugo Black and the subsequent scandal after it was revealed that Black had been—and possibly still was—a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives (HUM 258, Box 1).

Audio recording of John F. Kennedy student speech in Harvard College English F, 1937,  'Hugo Black.'

John F. Kennedy recording for public speaking class at Harvard, 1937

Seventy years ago, on June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Harvard’s Memorial Church and delivered a short, unadorned Commencement speech that seemed unremarkable to most listeners at the time. Yet it changed the world.

The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of one of the largest international economic aid programs in history. Over the next four years, the United States delivered nearly $13 billion (in today’s dollars, $121 billion) in assistance to participating European nations under the European Recovery Program, soon known as the Marshall Plan.

1947 June 5 - Commencement Day

At 1947 Harvard Commencement, George Marshall announces Marshall Plan

Cell phones assist in the fight against malaria. In the next podcast, hear Caroline Buckee, D.Phil, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explain how her team is using cell phone data to make predictions about how malaria is transmitted through different areas of a country.

Studying Abroad: Researching the Spread of Disease

Composer: attributed to John Francis Wade; descant by David Willcocks; organ interludes by John Ferris — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director. 107th Annual Christmas Carol Service, December 2016.

Adeste Fideles

Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company, was one of Europe’s largest coal users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy services. How did it engineer that monumental change? Mark Kramer discusses how CEO Francesco Starace’s vision of sustainability drove innovation and fostered a completely new enterprise around developing and promoting renewable energy.

How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader

Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced The Marshall Plan on Commencement Day 1947 in Harvard Yard.

George C. Marshall, 1947 - Harvard Voices

Denise Murrell traded finance for fine arts—and cast a critical new eye on iconic paintings

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7047

Reframing Modern Art - Denise Murrell

How Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince built a tech giant

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7060

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster - Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince

Patrick McGinnis, who coined the term “fear of missing out,” on how it increasingly drives our personal and professional lives—and how we can manage it

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7072

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens - Patrick McGinnis

How Seni Sulyman and Andela plan to turn the continent into a computing hub

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7115

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector - Seni Sulyman

Space entrepreneur and investor Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux on how to search the skies for profits

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7144

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

How the CEO of a Chicago charter school network picked up the pieces after a leadership crisis

Transcript: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7154

After the Storm - Constance Jones

CEO Kim Lopdrup on what it takes to turn around an iconic brand—and why sustainability is mission critical for the seafood giant.  Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7167

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh - Kim Lodrup

Monica Dodi on diversity as a competitive advantage for VCs.  Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7201

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these days. Increasingly, her clients tell her, they are facing a serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, are leaving these executives feeling like they are getting in their own way.

This chorus of executive worries led Su to write her new book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self. Those principles are what she calls her five Ps: Purpose, process, people, presence and peace. And in this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Su about how she developed those principles—and why real improvement requires a holistic approach, not just a lifestyle hack.
Transcript available at: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=7241

Your Whole Self – Amy Jen Su

Oprah Winfrey addresses the Harvard Alumni Association in Tercentenary Theater during the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University's 362nd Commencement.

Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard Commencement 2013

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