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Rate Four Entrepreneurial Alumni to Work with Harvard Business School Students as Part of Residency Program

Original at Clear Admit external link    Fri, Nov 6

By Clear Admit As part of its Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) program, Harvard Business School (HBS) invites accomplished entrepreneurs among the HBS alumni to spend a semester or full academic year on campus as counselors to current MBA students who hope to pursue careers in the entrepreneurial...

Rate Friday Happenings

Original at Bostonist external link    Fri, Nov 6

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By Rick Sawyer The Office heartthrob and Newton native John Krasinski will introduce his new film adaption of David Foster Wallace's short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, his debut as a director. Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Singing

Rate Harvard Takes First In International Ranking

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Nov 5

Harvard took the top ranking in the seventh annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was published this week by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, offering a comparison of over 1000 schools worldwide.

Rate Harvard Takes First In International Ranking

Original at The Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Nov 5

Harvard took the top ranking in the seventh annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was published this week by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, offering a comparison of over 1000 schools worldwide.

This Week

 

Rate SEPTEMBER 30, 1976: Harvard Study, UHS Disagree On Swine Flu

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Nov 5

Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Harvard Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults.

Rate Ho Leaves Harvard Legacy After Career-Ending Injury

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Nov 5

Cheng Ho deserves better than this. After coming to the United States not knowing English, let alone football, he helped Harvard to back-to-back Ivy League titles in 2007 and 2008. With all the odds he’s already overcome, the senior running back deserves better than to watch his career end...

Rate SPORTS: Field hockey defeats Harvard 5-3, Hood ’12 breaks record

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Tue, Nov 3

field hockey team extended its winning streak to three with a 5-3 win over Harvard (5-10, 2-4 Ivy) Saturday, a game that saw Kelly Hood ’12 break the College record for most points in a season.

Rate Bite Size News, November 3: People Choose Edition

Original at Bostonist external link    Tue, Nov 3

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By MJG Image by fr3sh_fruitt from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr The early voter turnout in Boston was heavy in places as the choice between Menino and Flaherty was finally made. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]Peter Anderson, a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, claims he was fired from Taunt...

Rate Harvard Law Grad Sets the 9/11 Chapel Ablaze

Original at IvyGate external link    Tue, Nov 3

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By Brice Reynolds Bingo. Why would you do that? Seriously, dude, burning down a cemetery/memorial is not a funny prank. This is a somewhat funny, Ivy League prank. But let’s go on the record and just say stop trying, Ivy League-rs. Or you will lose your job and your six-figure salary. Like Brian did.

Rate SPORTS WEEKLY: Men’s soccer’s Ivy hopes endangered after loss to Harvard

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Sun, Nov 1

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The No. 21 Dartmouth men’s soccer team dropped to second place in the Ivy League standings after a 2-1 loss to No. 16 Harvard here on Saturday. It was the Big Green’s third consecutive loss.

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate “THE CREATION AND DESTRUCTION OF VALUE”: HAROLD JAMES GLOBALIZATION BOOK

Original at Cambridge Forecast Group Blog » Globalization external link    Thu, Oct 29

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By cambridgeforecast –Niall Ferguson, Harvard University, author of The Ascent of Money A masterly account. James commands his subject like no other. The lessons of 1931 for today’s world are compelling. Like Humpty Dumpty, globalization is broken, and it will take time to put it together again.

Rate HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Wed, Oct 28

Fortunately here at Harvard, we have faculty and students at the Law School, the Business School, the Economics Department, and the Kennedy School who share this point of view. We've been trying to put our efforts together wherever we can to push this area forward. It's very exciting!

Rate The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Mon, Oct 26

In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal transactions such as buying a home or car. The f...

Past Month

 

Rate John Meyer

Original at Environmental and Urban Economics external link    Wed, Oct 21

By Matthew E. Kahn(noreply@blogger.com) Harvard's John Meyer died yesterday. He was a great urban economist. His combined contributions to urban economics, transport economics and economic history merited a share of a nobel prize. He also served as a decade as the President of NBER before it moved to Cambridge.

Rate Alumni Call for Lower HMC Pay

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Tue, Oct 20

A small group of alumni from the Harvard Class of 1969 renewed its criticism of compensation paid to University endowment managers in a letter sent to President Drew G. Faust yesterday, citing the nearly 30 percent investment loss sustained this past year.

Rate Harvard Whallops New York Ivies in Road Matches

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Mon, Oct 12

Cruising home from Harlem on Saturday, the Harvard women’s volleyball team must have had Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” playing over the team bus’ speakers. The Crimson (6-9, 2-2 Ivy) played to a tune of a 3-0 shutout of Columbia on Saturday after outperforming Cornell 3-1 during th...

Rate With Poor Play, No. 8 Harvard Settles For Draw

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Mon, Oct 12

A tie, in sports, can spark nearly every reaction. There are victorious ties, heartbreaking ties, and I-can’t-believe-we-played-this-entire-game-just-to-tie ties. When the No. 8 Harvard men’s soccer team tied 1-1 with Cornell this past Saturday, the reaction was mostly one of relie...

September of 2009

 

Rate Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Wed, Sep 30

President Faust reflected on Harvard Business School's past 100 years and shared a visionary perspective for the types of leaders that the School should aspire to produce, while Dean Light discussed the School's history and highlighted key focus areas for the future. Throughout the pa...

Rate Harvard Near National Average, Above Mass. Average for Flu-Like Illness Between Sept. 12 and 18

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Mon, Sep 28

Harvard University Health Services reported about 50 new cases of students with influenza-like illnesses during the period of September 12-18, placing Harvard at the national average for new flu infections on college campuses.

Rate Harvard Girls Think College Chicks Still Read Seventeen

Original at IvyGate external link    Thu, Sep 17

By Qichen Zhang The girls who brought us the Harvard douchebag contest have extended their reach beyond Cambridge. Yesterday, Windsor Hanger ‘10, Stephanie Kaplan ‘10, and Annie Wang ‘11 of Harvard’s Freeze College Magazine launched their new “collegiette’s guide” called Her Campus, setting a new p...

Rate Famous Frosh: Khadijah Williams, another Homeless to HarvardVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at IvyGate external link    Wed, Sep 9

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By Molly Fitzpatrick Stay tuned for the next installment——matching a sorely disadvantaged African-American with unwelcoming WASPs is one historically demonstrated to cause hilarious tension. We wish Khadijah the best at Harvard, at least until the Cambridge Police arrest her for trying to get into her o...

Year 2009

 

Rate A Pretentious Education, or A Harvard Grad Writes A Book About Harvard, Bitter Interviewers Too Obsessed With The Kid To Bother Properly Reviewing The Book

Original at IvyGate external link    Fri, Aug 21

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By Robyn Schneider And, in essence, the plot itself is flip-cup played on mahogany—McDonell writes of a silly game made dangerous by money, power and connections. He writes of Harvard in a way that only a recent graduate can, and he writes well.  If you’re looking for a fast, engaging read for the train or plane...

Rate Putting Emma Watson To Bed (The Brown Story, We Mean)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at IvyGate external link    Tue, Jul 7

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By Max Wasserman Whether Emma Watson is truly “incredibly academic” or just really devoted to method acting in playing Hermione Granger, she aced her A-levels. That plus $4.5 billion worldwide gross is more than enough for her to get in at Cambridge, so it’s unlikely that Harvard and Yale would have reject...

Rate Opinion: Frans Spaepen named interim director of Center for Nanoscale Systems

Original at Harvard University Gazette external link    Thu, Jun 11

Frans Spaepen, director of the Rowland Institute, will serve as interim director of Harvard University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) starting July 1, upon completion of his term as interim dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Rate Opinion: Michele Lamont Reveals How Professors Think—and Why?

Original at Bostonist external link    Tue, May 5

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By Kerry Skemp “When faculty members decide on graduate students, they will have to teach the students,” Lamont points out. “There’s a balance between power and influence” when deciding what students to take. The “ongoing relationship from year to year” between faculty members requires them to “keep...

Rate Opinion: The Elusive Quest For Global Governance Standards

Original at The Doc Searls Weblog external link    Thu, Apr 23

By Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance recently issued The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards, a discussion paper I co-authored with Professor Assaf Hamdani. The paper is scheduled for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Our slides fr...

Rate Podcast: Radio Berkman: Can You Keep A Secret?

Original at The Doc Searls Weblog external link    Tue, Feb 24

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By djones Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.

Rate Podcast: Radio Berkman: Can You Keep A Secret?

Original at MediaBerkman external link    Tue, Feb 24

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By crhinesmith@cyber.law.harvard.edu (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School) Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.

Rate How to find Electronic or Online Versions of Newspapers at Harvard UniversityVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23

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By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to determine if newspapers are available in electronic or online format at Harvard University.

Rate How To: Finding Newspapers in Hollis at Harvard UniversityVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23

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By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to determine if Harvard University has a newspaper in microfiche, microfilm, or print. It's advised to watch the video on Finding Newspapers in Electron...

Rate How To: Using Harvard University's LibX Tool to Access Documents Found on the WebVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23

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By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This video tutorial will show you how to determine whether a document you've found on the web is something that is accessible to members of the Harvard University community via a...

Rate How To: Making Requests from the Depository at Harvard UniversityVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23

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By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to make requests for items that are held at the Harvard Depository, which is off-site from the Law Library, and all of the other Harvard Libraries.

Rate How To: Using Citation Linker at Harvard UniversityVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23

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By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to use Citation Linker at Harvard University. This tool should be used if you already have a complete citation to document that appears in a journal or news...

Rate Beaker Hill: We Put New Stories in Our "Year in Review"

Original at Bostonist external link    Tue, Dec 30

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By Matt Feltz From geeks looking for love in Cambridge to the essence of our vast expanding universe, and everything in between, 2008 proved to be an eventful year for science in Boston. No doubt there will be more of the same next year, and we'll be there to keep you informed...and hopefully entertained.

Rate Opinion: Duke’s endowment, budget reporting trails Harvard’s & Yale’s

Original at John In Carolina external link    Wed, Dec 17

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) On Dec. 2 Harvard President Drew G. Galpin released a Financial Update, one of a number of recent letters she's released and interviews she's granted in which she's sought to keep the Harvard community informed as to the current value of Harvard's endowment and specific budgeting plans fo...

Rate Opinion: FIRE Co-founder Announces Candidacy for Harvard Board of Overseers

Original at FIRE external link    Thu, Dec 11

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) Federal "harassment" regulations have thus become a convenient tool - actually, a cover - for the university to censor student speech in ways that would be unconstitutional were Harvard a public university to which the First Amendment applies. Remarkably, even student-authored paro...

Rate Opinion: 'Legally Blonde: The Musical' coming to Proctors

Original at Albany Times Union external link    Thu, Nov 20

Legally Blonde' leaps from Hollywood to Broadway and now Schenectady Bonds says that the leads for "Legally Blonde," which closed its official Broadway run at the Palace Theatre on Oct. 19, all have contracts with dates lasting well into next fall. Legally Blonde: The Musical"

Rate Opinion: Call it dumb, then forget it

Original at Albany Times Union external link    Sat, Nov 15

Summers was driven out of Harvard following his remarks. In September 2007, he was dropped as the keynote speaker at a University of California Board of Regents meeting when a female professor circulated a petition to have his invitation withdrawn. And give Summers a break.

Rate Harvard Guy Gives Orgasmic Review to Other Harvard Guy [Reviews You Can't Use]

Original at Gawker external link    Sat, Oct 25

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By Alex Carnevale Richard Yates. Leonard Michaels. Robert Coover. Thomas Pynchon. Evan S. Connell. Richard Ford. Hell, even Tom Wolfe. Then again, what is a Harvard guy going to say about another Harvard guy? Seriously: Sam Tanenhaus and John Updike Do 69 [NYTBR]

Rate Opinion: 9 Volunteers in Harvard Study Agree to Post Their Personal Genomes Online

Original at Chronicle of Higher Education external link    Mon, Oct 20

By David DeBolt Nine of the first 10 participants in a genetic study at Harvard Medical School, who include some well-known researchers, have agreed to post newly decoded segments of their DNA sequences and other medical information on a publicly accessible Web site, the group announced at a news conf...

Rate How To: Thomson Reuters Forecasts Nobel Winners

Original at Physics and Physicists external link    Wed, Oct 1

By ZapperZ Chemistry - Charles Lieber of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who figured out how to build and use tiny, molecular-scale nanowires. - Krzysztof Matyjaszewski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who used electric ...

Rate Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Fri, Sep 5

The case method has become synonymous with education for management. In fact, it was derived in the early 20th Century from training for the law at Harvard by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty. And in other forms, it serves the medical and other professions as well. A kin...

Rate Opinion: did Harvard Law kill parody, satire & humor?

Original at The Doc Searls Weblog external link    Wed, Aug 27

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By David Giacalone ” . . . Interestingly, it was Harvard Law School, regarded by many as the apex of legal education (and located in the heart of liberal Cambridge) that early grappled with the appropriateness of punishing students for engaging in satire and parody. With the eyes of the higher-education elite w...

Rate Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings

Original at IvyGate external link    Fri, Aug 15

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By James Yu Ouch. Maybe Forbes has a point about the attention liberal arts colleges can provide their students, and about certain schools floating comfortably on their reputations, but saying Dartmouth students “are not particularly happy with the quality of their instruction” smells a bit fis...

Rate Rich people and the money they give to rich universities | The Harvard Voice

Original at theharvardvoice.com external link    Tue, May 20

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By Adam Goldenberg Rich people and the money they give to rich universities Like it or not, we are the beneficiaries of our benefactors’ beneficience. BY Adam Goldenberg PUBLISHED: May 1 2008 - 1:14am TAGS: LOCAL alumni donations Earlier this week, David Rockefeller ’36 gave $100 million to Harvard. That’s...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opinion: Harvard Political Blogs: Crazy Informative, With a Touch of Anti-Semitism

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Nov 5

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Bikini Politics, which boasts "the body-politic will never be the same," is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It's not so much a women's issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women's issues. We all know what that means.

Rate Opinion: The End of Military History?

Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB external link    Wed, May 9

By James Joyner David Bell wonders, “Why don’t we study military history?” At Harvard this spring, for instance, only two of 85 history courses focus mainly on war. This is not surprising, because Harvard does not have a single specialist in military history among the 58 members of its history departmen...

Rate Opinion: Mark Moyar, historian of Vietnam, finds academe hostile to a hawk

Original at FIRE external link    Mon, Apr 30

By fire@thefire.org (Gary Shapiro) Mark Moyar doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of a disappointed job seeker. He is an Eagle Scout who earned a summa cum laude degree from Harvard, graduating first in the history department before earning a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in England. Before he had even begun gradu...

Year 2006

 

Rate Podcast: A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project

Original at Jon's Radio external link    Thu, Nov 30

My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google. It's been two years since Google began partnering with the University of Michigan...

Year 2005

 

Rate Blue Devils Cool Harvard’s Streak

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Sun, Dec 4

It took a near-perfect performance to finally end the Harvard men’s basketball team’s perfect start. Behind guard Justin Chirea’s 7-for-10 shooting from behind the arc, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) stormed past the Crimson (5-1) for an 87-79 victory on Saturday afternoon at Lavi...

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