Tag: Labor

  • Nation & World

    Reform, vigilance needed to boost women in science

    The pipeline isn’t the problem. That was the message of speakers addressing the topic of low numbers of women in top academic positions in science and engineering Wednesday (Oct. 10).

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  • Nation & World

    University employees honored for 25 years of service

    More than 140 Harvard employees will be honored Oct. 18 for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 53rd annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony — a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University — will be held at the Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall,…

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  • Nation & World

    Treating workers like people: A history

    “The Human Relations Movement: The Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924-1933),” the first in a series of exhibits to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Harvard Business School (HBS), is on view through Jan. 17 at the School’s Baker Library.

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  • Nation & World

    Labor and management, together at last

    Harvard University hosted “The Future of Labor Forum” last week (Oct. 2), a first-ever conference that brought together prominent voices from the sometimes adversarial worlds of management, unions, government, and the academy.

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  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    It was announced Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the prestigious 2007 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Harvard’s Richard B. Freeman. He was praised by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany for “fundamental contributions that have monumentally shaped modern labor economics.”

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  • Nation & World

    Four decades later, scholars re-examine ‘Moynihan Report’

    Before he was a United States senator from New York, before he was ambassador to India, before he taught government at Harvard, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) served as assistant secretary of labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and it was in that capacity that he issued a report in March 1965 titled “The Negro Family:…

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  • Nation & World

    Women in science: Good news, bad news

    It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. At Harvard’s fourth National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science, it was clear why female scientists need to keep meeting like this.

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  • Nation & World

    Cross-cultural study of entrepreneurs has surprising findings

    Bat Batjargal, an Oxford-trained political scientist and lecturer in social sciences at Harvard, talks a mile a minute – and can do so in five languages. He sprinkles every conversation about his work (on social network theory) with a constant phrase: “Fascinating stuff.” In two talks last week – on the social networks of entrepreneurs…

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  • Nation & World

    Interns continue to work overly long shifts, study finds

    That intern working on you at the hospital may be so sleep-deprived his or her performance is no better than that of a drunk. That’s one conclusion of a national study by investigators at the Harvard Medical School.

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  • Nation & World

    Women far behind in patent awards

    Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.

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