Harvard University

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.

By noreply@blogger.com (Matthew E. Kahn) Harvard Crimson Opinion Going Green with Harvard's Green Published On 12/10/2008 11:51:13 PM By ALEXANDER R. KONRAD This piece ran as part of our focus on Harvard's endowment. Alexander R. Konrad ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Quincy House.

By noreply@blogger.com (Matthew E. Kahn) Faust Warns Faculty On Finance University President Drew G. Faust began yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a 10-minute address on the effects that the recent downturn in the financial markets might have on Harvard.

By noreply@blogger.com (Matthew E. Kahn) The University-wide reduction targets come a year and a half after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced plans to reduce its emissions 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The newest announcement won praise from Commonwealth officials who had worked with Harvard on the Allston dea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Matthew E. Kahn) The Harvard offer to her, and a Kennedy School offer to her husband, a prominent macroeconomist, had been widely reported in the profession and, at Berkeley, greatly feared. The pair had been instrumental in putting the graduate program there back on its feet, after their arrival from Pr...

By Matthew E. Kahn Behind these sentiments lurks the endemic self-loathing that subtly defines many Harvard students’ view of their own success in the college admissions cockfight. We are selfish when it comes to rooming and selfless on the subject of transfer admissions because we’re embarrassed to be...

By Matthew E. Kahn If you want more details on this good clean fun go here --- Excitement in Westwood, Los Angeles As exciting as Harvard Square was, I don't remember such thrills in Cambridge, MA.

By Matthew E. Kahn KSG Dean Unveils New Name, Slogan “One of our key findings was that we were not leveraging our affiliation with Harvard as effectively as we could be,” she said, adding that the school shares the Kennedy name with more than 900,000 other institutions around the world.

By Matthew E. Kahn In other news, did you see Ray Fisman's quote in Maureen Dowd's column today about Hilary Clinton and men's ambivalence about successful women? As a dude who is married to a very successful woman, I would like to know how many male academics under the age of 45 have "stay at home" wives versu...