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Shore Appointed Vice President for Finance
Edward C. Forst, executive vice president, announced that Dan Shore, who has been acting vice president for finance since May...
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...
Three Stonecutters: On the Future of Business Education
As part of its centennial celebration, Harvard Business School (HBS) addressed the future training of business leaders during morning presentations...
Business Leadership and the Future of Markets: Helping “Capitalism Save Itself from Itself”
It seemed urgently timely, and strangely disorienting, for the Harvard Business School (HBS) Centennial Global Business Summit to engage the alumni who lead JP Morgan Chase and General Motors...
Tiktaalik Resurfaces
In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that...
Bill Gates on “Creative Capitalism”
Highlights from an armchair discussion between Bill Gates and Robinson professor of business administration emeritus James Cash
Financial Crisis: Confidence—and Some Cautions
This post summarizes the October 13 panel discussion on "Leadership for the Twenty-First Century," moderated by journalist and television host Charlie Rose and a pair of addresses on globalization...
FAS Dean Outlines Priorities
Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined his priorities for the academic year in his first forward-looking annual letter, published on October 9...
Martin Chalfie ’69, Ph.D. ’77, and Roger Y. Tsien ’72 Share Chemistry Nobel Prize
Fundamental work on the green fluorescent protein, isolated from jellyfish, is now a basic tool used to study biological processes...
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given the University $125 million—the largest donation in its history—to create a research institute for biologically inspired engineering...
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no small risk, trying to counter the enormous worldwide trade in illegal logging and timber smuggling...