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… first executive vice president, effective September 1. As the “principal ranking operating officer” at the University, he will oversee financial, … Sachs partner since 1998, was most recently global head of investment management (and now becomes a board member at …
Issue: September-October 2008
Brian K. Lee Appointed Vice President for Development
… Rogers (who is stepping down at year-end after leading the recently concluded, $9.62-billion Harvard Campaign ). … is staffing his senior leadership team; the appointment of Claudine Gay as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was announced shortly …
Thrills, Baseball & Other
… With this talk of thrills we are not of course referring to the 2015 Red Sox. We are harking back …
Issue: September-October 2015
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new elected directors … Angeles. Bedrosian chair in governance and the public enterprise; director, Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School …
Harvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist
… All justices on the current Supreme Court have attended law school at either … alumni, one a Law School alumnus as well, are among a list of 25 individuals President Donald Trump has said he will … J.D. ’61, who announced his retirement last week, as of July 31, after 30 years of service. They are: Robert P. …
College to Impose Sanctions on Final Club Members
… Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative … announced in an e-mail today that Harvard will ban members of historically male final clubs and other unrecognized, single-gender social groups from holding …
Faculty Faith
… In their early years, many American universities had openly … to the Churches.” But in the centuries that followed, professors began to see their mandate as seeking secular … a quarter are either atheist or agnostic. The numbers surprised them, “particularly given that religion is not …
Issue: July-August 2007
South by North Harvard
… Might the University's center of gravity move one day from Harvard Yard south to the Charles River? Perhaps, if some of Harvard's options for academic growth over the next …
Stone Hall Dedicated
… On a “momentous and historic day…for all of the Harvard Houses,” Quincy House master Lee Gehrke on … top administrators, and donors to the formal dedication of Stone Hall: “Old Quincy” renovated, renamed—for the late …
Mesoamerican Notes
… Next to it stand what looks like a falcon, and a pair of monkeys with O-shaped mouths. Inches away, an alligator, … A smiling, seated man wears a hat and a heavy necklace. There are shells and fish and lizards and a squat … stranger figurines too: a dog riding on the back of a cow, and a creature that looks half-anteater, half-pig. …
Issue: March-April 2016
Alumnus Robert B. Wilson and Paul Milgrom Share 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
… Stanford doctoral student Paul R. Milgrom have been awarded the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” Wilson is Adams Distinguished …
Skidding
… At first , the message seemed strange. After a 74-63 victory over … out that the Crimson had played competitively with one of the best teams in the country and that they should … in practice, injuries, and matchups—“I wouldn’t be surprised if things were to change again.” Shooting Woes Another …
Harvardians Short-listed for National Book Awards
… Book Award categories today. In nonfiction, Kemper professor of American history Jill Lepore was nominated for Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. A Bancroft Prize …
Business School Dean Transition Extended during Coronavirus Crisis
… S. Bacow announced this afternoon that Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), who had announced his retirement effective at the end of this academic year , in June, will now remain the … Company , the University unit planning the commercial Enterprise Research Campus, also on Western Avenue, development of …
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
… This year, instead of drawing 30,000 people for a wild weekend of in-person literary immersion, the annual Boston Book Festival will spread mostly online …
Issue: September-October 2020