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Nation & World
CPL honors anti-hunger leader with Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award
The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced that the 2008 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award will go to Billy Shore, co-founder of Share Our Strength. The award and the $100,000 prize that accompanies it will be presented to Shore on Nov. 19 at a reception in Cambridge, Mass.
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Lewis Ranieri to deliver Dunlop Lecture on Oct. 1
Lewis Ranieri of Hyperion Private Equity Funds will deliver the ninth annual John T. Dunlop Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (HGSD) on Oct. 1. The title of Ranieri’s lecture is “Revolution in Mortgage Finance.”
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Faculty experts to explore financial crisis in Webcast panel
Harvard President Drew Faust invites students, faculty, and staff to a special panel discussion Thursday, Sept. 25, on the current turmoil in the financial markets. “Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts” will begin at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
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Scholars, officials welcomed as Mossavar-Rahmani Center fellows
A director of international banking for one of the top banks in Vietnam, a seasoned government relations executive, and the former deputy general counsel for National Grid are among the incoming fellows being welcomed this fall at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
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Sweet named administration, finance dean for FAS
Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith has announced the appointment of Brett C. Sweet as FAS dean for administration and finance, effective Sept. 2. Sweet will assume the redefined executive dean’s position that has been held on an interim basis by Robert Scalise. Scalise will return to his position…
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Richard Musgrave
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 8, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Abel Musgrave, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Musgrave was the leading public finance economist of his generation.
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Mora to step down as vice president for finance
Elizabeth Mora, a senior member of the University’s financial administration since 1997, today (April 15) announced her intention to step down as vice president for finance and chief financial officer.
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Zoellick wants to ‘retool’ the World Bank
World Bank President Robert Zoellick reiterated his call to retool the organization to better meet the new set of development challenges across the globe during a discussion Thursday night (April 3) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Harvard announces 3.5 percent tuition increase for 2008-09, 21.4 percent rise in need-based scholarship aid
For the upcoming year, the estimated average total aid package of close to $40,000 will reduce the average cost (including nonbilled personal expenses of approximately $3,000) to an estimated $10,500 for those families receiving financial aid. Need-based scholarship aid for undergraduates at Harvard has increased by 143 percent over the past decade, while the total…
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Can corporations police themselves effectively?
On the surface, one might argue, it looks like the business world is headed in a decidedly socially conscious direction. Coffee giant Starbucks supports fair prices for its coffee growers. Wal-Mart, the department store dynasty, has instituted a number of measures to lighten its environmental footprint. Companies everywhere tout their eco-friendly products and packaging, and…
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Newsmakers
Three faculty elected to NAE, Linnean Society of London honors Wilson, Arthur Kleinman serves as Cleveringa Professor, Faculty earn Smith Breeden Prize, Pair wins prestigious NSF award, ‘Father of World Wide Web’ to receive Pathfinder Award
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HMC Board names Kaplan interim CEO
The Harvard Management Company (HMC) Board announced on Nov. 9 that Robert Kaplan, professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School (HBS) and former vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, has been appointed the interim CEO of the Harvard Management Company and will serve in that capacity until the new president and CEO…
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Donors support teaching and research with gifts totaling $614 million
Harvard University announced today (Sept. 27) that its gift receipts totaled $614 million in fiscal year 2007 — a $19 million increase over fiscal year 2006.
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Harvard College Fund’s ‘Peabo’ Gardner dies
On Sept. 5, Harvard and the Harvard College Fund lost one of its best-known loyalists. George Peabody Gardner III, known to colleagues and friends everywhere as “Peabo,” succumbed to cancer…
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IFC, U.N. to cooperate on study of investment contracts and human rights
The International Finance Corp. (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group, and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Professor John Ruggie, who is the United Nations secretary-general’s special representative on business and human rights, recently launched a joint study on foreign direct investments and human rights.
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HBS sponsors program for NFL pros
Is there life after pro football? The Harvard Business School (HBS) thinks so. For the third year, it’s sponsoring an executive education program for young athletes from the National Football League. In separate three-day modules, one in February and another in April, experts help the players conserve and invest the dollars they earn on the…
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Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96
Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogotá to Tokyo, died Monday (Jan. 15) in Santa Cruz, Calif.