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Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?
… Writing in today's New York Times , Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's … value and hold them until the crisis passes and their value rises again? Will it overpay for these assets to subsidize …
Sustaining a “Delicate Experiment”
… Chapman professor of business administration Nitin Nohria was … his speeches and writings appear below: In his speech on the occasion of his appointment, Nohria spoke about the kind … both academics and enlightened business leaders, saw the rise of the large corporation as a profound challenge to the …
Issue: July-August 2010
“Party Animals”
… Animals are ever-present in the human imagination; their images have inspired … Painted terracotta drinking mugs shaped like the heads of eagles, pigs, braying donkeys, and other animals animated … transform into a donkey,” says Susanne Ebbinghaus, head of Asian and Mediterranean art at the Harvard Art Museums. …
Issue: November-December 2018
Storytelling Spaces
… Set designers like Derek McLane ’80 are responsible for one of the chief joys of theatergoing: the inevitable surprise we feel when the curtain rises and we are thrust into a …
Issue: March-April 2008
Stanford Posts Very Strong Investment Returns
… According to accounts by Bloomberg and the Stanford Daily (and confirmed by an official news statement ), Stanford Management Company has … investments for the fiscal year ended last June 30. Net of distributions to support Stanford's operations, but …
Mass Audubon Ushers in the Spring
… The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge stretches along the coast of Plum Island, near Newburyport. In addition to prime beach … who also directs the Burlington Science Center, part of that town’s public-school system. She starts the day with …
Issue: March-April 2019
Electing Overseers
… An apparent confluence of events—continuing study about how better to engage alumni, the challenge posed by a petition slate of candidates for election to the Board of Overseers last …
Issue: November-December 2016
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer many social and intellectual events. Among early spring offerings: McKay professor of computer science Harry Lewis discusses “Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion” with the Harvard Club of Cincinnati …
Issue: March-April 2011
A Dispatch from Chengdu
… Lee , M.T.S. ’02, forwarded this personal account of survivors coping with the aftermath of the traumatic earthquake in China, and … new mothers here want to call their babies 'earthquake surprise.' I might as well do the same," she adds. The Chinese …
Accelerating Innovation
… Douglas Melton was studying frog developmental biology in the 1990s. Then his young son developed type 1 diabetes, and … worldwide. He refocused his lab on the emerging science of embryonic stem cells, which can divide and differentiate … reported annually to his office by Harvard researchers have risen 60 percent, and licensing revenue has more than …
Issue: March-April 2019
Aftershocks
… In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in … governance and other matters of substance continued to arise, suggesting that University affairs remain in an … the issue on May 3, suggesting that the apprehensions had arisen as a result of a consultant’s survey he had …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Scientist in Full
… On January 15, 1873, Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recounted in his diary a “long … he’d had that morning with Louis Agassiz, founding director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The MCZ had been …
Issue: May-June 2013
Cycling Sightseers
… The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston is an online collection of tours through 26 neighborhoods, including South Boston, Jamaica Plain, and a few in Cambridge, many off the tourist track. The point is to give Boston’s 12 …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Business School’s Bold Agenda
… Srikant M. Datar became eleventh dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) on January 1, 2021 , under … First, he assumed his new responsibilities in the middle of the academic year, rather than at its outset, … so is fully aligned with the economic role of private enterprise. Equally important, he continued, “We need to develop …
Picturing America
… Given the current national crises, The Americans, the 1958 book by … a culture in transition: activists and opponents squaring off within a changing racial landscape, people more openly …
Issue: January-February 2021