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Ragtime June 24-July 1, 2009: Crimson Bloodbath

01 Jul 2009 06:00:34 PDT

Written by Max Wasserman
Columbia: Lerner Hall will no longer be open 24/7 due to the economy, but you can still look inside anytime from anywhere Cornell: Former Cornell star goalie Dave McKee has been charged with rape in southern California, Kobe Bryant not returning his calls Dartmouth: The reign of Jim Yong...

Original story at IvyGate .

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Business Summit: Business and the Environment

26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT

Date of Event:October 13, 2008Moderator:Forest Reinhardt, HBS facultySpeakers:Jim Barry, Chief Executive, Ntr Plc David Blood, Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management James McCarthy, Harvard University faculty

Original story at HBS Working Knowledge .

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Bite Size News, June 23: Bad Weather = Bad Business Edition

23 Jun 2009 13:15:00 PDT

Written by MJG
If your business is struggling this month, just look out the window to get the reason for it. [Boston Globe] Speaking of the weather...Is June 2009 the worst June ever? [Boston Globe]Harvard University has plans to lay off approximately 275 employees in administrative, professional, cler...

Original story at Bostonist .

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Sack Lunch: Harvard Layoffs Start This Week

23 Jun 2009 07:13:17 PDT

Written by Rick Sawyer
Layoffs have been hanging over the heads of Harvard employees like the sword of Damocles since word of staff reductions started to circulate in February. Today, Harvard President Drew Faust let workers know that the string was about to snap, the sword was about to fall, and heads were abou...

Original story at Bostonist .

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Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism's Historic Opportunity

12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT

Date of Event:October 14, 2008Speaker:Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges fac...

Original story at HBS Working Knowledge .

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

11 Jun 2009 13:00:01 PDT

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).

Original story at Harvard University Gazette .

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Harvard University news and blogs - July 05, 2009

05 Jul 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Harvard University news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• First Look: June 30 -- from HBS Working Knowledge
• Boston Blotter: With a Friend Like This... -- by MJG from Bostonist
• AAAS 2010 -- by Sean from Cosmic Variance
• Friday Happenings -- by Rick Sawyer from Bostonist
• Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Urge New Hampshire Supreme Court to Defend First Amendment Rights of Mortgage Site -- by lkoss from Berkman Center Newsfeed
• While We Were Out, Part IV: Can’t the Kushners Just Pay Our Tuition? -- by Michael E van Landingham from IvyGate
• "Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms -- from HBS Working Knowledge
• Radically Different Approach To Treating Early Breast Cancer - Science Daily -- from press release
• Tongan Harvard graduate -- from Matangi Tonga
• Iranians find ways to bypass Net-censors -- from CNET News

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Committee on African Studies awards 51 summer travel grants

11 Jun 2009 13:00:01 PDT

African Studies 2009 undergraduate grant recipients Connie Chung, a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) doctoral student: “Gender in Place and Relationship: The Relational and Spatial World of Street Girls in Zambia and Tanzania.”

Original story at Harvard University Gazette .

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Meet the ‘chief watcher over Matthews’

04 Jun 2009 12:44:01 PDT

lt;p> <img src="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/06.04/photos/ehler.jpg" alt="Victor Ehler" /> </p> <p> Harvard is in my blood, though not in the traditional sense. I was born and brought up in Cambridge, Mass., as were my mother and her siblings. My gran...

Original story at Harvard University Gazette .

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Harvard Shooting Was Drug Related, Duh!

20 May 2009 20:16:58 PDT

Written by Adam Clark Estes
The recent shooting on Harvard’s campus stinks like a drug deal gone bad, and there are text messages to prove it. A recent article in the Crimson, who have actually been kind of awesome in covering the scoop, details how text messages recovered from victim Justin Cosby’s phone threw up som...

Original story at IvyGate .

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Opinion: The Elusive Quest For Global Governance Standards

23 Apr 2009 06:02:42 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at The Doc Searls Weblog .

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IvySports Roundup: February 27th - March 1st

03 Mar 2009 12:02:41 PST

Written by Max Wasserman
Sure, Yale’s men’s basketball team fell at Princeton this weekend, but they made great strides in a sport the Elis don’t care about. Yale’s men’s ice hockey team beat Cornell 4-2 on Friday to clinch the regular season conference title. The conference in question is the ECAC Hockey League, a...

Original story at IvyGate .

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Podcast: Radio Berkman: Can You Keep A Secret?

24 Feb 2009 09:08:30 PST

Written 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.

Original story at The Doc Searls Weblog .

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Podcast: Radio Berkman: Can You Keep A Secret?

24 Feb 2009 09:08:30 PST

Written 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.

Original story at MediaBerkman .

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How to find Electronic or Online Versions of Newspapers at Harvard University

23 Feb 2009 13:13:51 PST

Written 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.

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How To: Finding Newspapers in Hollis at Harvard University

23 Feb 2009 13:12:00 PST

Written 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...

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How To: Using Harvard University's LibX Tool to Access Documents Found on the Web

23 Feb 2009 13:06:47 PST

Written 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...

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How To: Making Requests from the Depository at Harvard University

23 Feb 2009 00:11:21 PST

Written 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.

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How To: Using Citation Linker at Harvard University

23 Feb 2009 00:07:32 PST

Written 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...

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

30 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST

Written 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.

Original story at Bostonist .

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Harvard-Yale Game, In Cocktail Form

21 Nov 2008 08:25:00 PST

Written by C. Fernsebner
Tonight is "The Game," which guarantees that the bars of Cambridge will be clogged with "Teh Douche." Bostonist is researching the thematically-correct home-drinking alternatives: Harvard Cocktail Yale Cocktail Harvard Cooler Yale Punch

Original story at Bostonist .

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Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

05 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT

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...

Original story at HBS Working Knowledge .

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Opinion: First Look: April 29, 2008

29 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PDT

Harvard Business School Case 708-482 Harvard Business School Case 608-121 Harvard Business School Case 308-051 Harvard Business School Case 108-006 Harvard Business School Case 508071 Harvard Business School Case 208-096 Harvard Business School Case 508-068

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

05 Nov 2007 08:25:15 PST

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.

Original story at IvyGate .

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

30 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at FIRE .

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

30 Nov 2006 21:00:00 PST

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...

Original story at Jon's Radio .

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