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Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
… The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managers—the subject of criticism and debate in recent years—took on a … HMC’s performance-based pay system yielded annual payments of as much as $18 million, $25 million, and $35 million for …
Issue: March-April 2007
Overseas Insourcing
… Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists, and chemists. … is shrinking, according to a recent report by Ascherman professor of economics Richard B. Freeman, director of the …
Issue: November-December 2005
Climate-Change Advocacy Intensifies
… At its first meeting of 2020, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded an … Company (HMC) to shed certain investments, if any, in enterprises involved in fossil-fuel production. Last weekend, …
Alumni News
… Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize …
Issue: November-December 2002
Public Health As Aspiration
… Opening the Commencement ceremony at the Harvard Chan School of … refugees, earthquake victims, and others in desperate need of care,” she said. “Ordinarily, Dr. Al Safadi would be …
Crimson Women Head for Sochi Ice
… New Year’s Day, USA Hockey announced its women’s roster for the winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, beginning … February 23. Four current or former Harvard players made the team: Julie Chu ’06, Michelle Picard ’15, Josephine … team coach is Harvard head coach Katey Stone, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine. … Four Harvard players have made …
Snug in Seal
… The inhabitants of Japan's northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that … Ainu woman who possessed this sealskin coat could scoff at wretched weather and draw admiring glances …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard at Home
… The on-line venture Harvard at Home gives alumni glimpses of … happenings throughout the University. Among the newest offerings is "Perspectives on China: Reform and …
Issue: May-June 2002
Joculor, Ergo Sum
… From their freshman year in college they were inseparable pals, once called “the Mutt and Jeff of post-Kantian idealism.” That epithet somehow failed to … Philosophy and humor “do spring from a common enterprise: taking a common wisdom and flipping it on its head,” …
Issue: May-June 2007
Corporation Member James F. Rothenberg Dies
… Bloomberg reported on July 21 that James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70—a member of the Harvard Corporation and past University treasurer , … role to which Rothenberg seemed at least in part to have risen.) From the dark financial days that cast an …
Harvard Medical School
… The Class Day ceremony (held jointly with the Harvard School … with speaker Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Check back for …
Controversial Visitor
… Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy. Khatami heads the … learned that Khatami would speak at Harvard's Institute of Politics on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 …
Issue: November-December 2006
“Drip, Drip, Drip”
… Erwin Cai ’20 knew he should make a defensive move. The problem was execution. A sabre fencer since age eight, … “When you show up as a freshman and you see the level of motivation that all the upperclassmen have toward winning … he attacked at the same time as his opponent, per the rules of sabre fencing, no one would earn a point. The safer, …
Issue: May-June 2020
A New Prescription for Drug Development
… Almost all the drugs that physicians prescribe to cure diseases or … But that outmoded discovery process and the lack of understanding must change, say scientists in academia and … diminishing returns); and an increase in the diagnosis of drug-resistant diseases—has the potential to imperil a …
Harvard Forward Unveils Second Overseer Slate
… ended than a new one begins. No, not Trump vs. Biden. Rather, Harvard Forward has unveiled its second slate of candidates who will petition for nomination to be elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers during next spring’s balloting. In the wake of …