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As all of you know, this past year has created a set of extraordinary financial challenges for our university as it has for others. I am grateful for the continuing efforts made by people across Harvard to confront these new realities with thoughtfulness and care, and with an emphasis on...
Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington Warren was an unlikely choice to head the oversight panel, not least because of her lack of familiarity with Washington parlor games. Her academic specialty is bankruptcy law, especially as it pertains to the American middle class. She emerged on the public stage in 2003...
Shiller and Summers in particular came to revel in tweaking the rational-market establishment. Shiller declared in 1984 that the logical leap from observing that markets were unpredictable to concluding that prices were right was "one of the most remarkable errors in the history of economic thought." Summers described how...
In 1989, Peter L. Bernstein was 70 and had led a full life. An intelligence officer during World War II, he later taught economics, ran an investment firm and edited the wonky but influential Journal of Portfolio Management as a flood of new academic research transformed investing in the 1970s...
"They understand IT is critical for their development," says Frederick Carriere, executive director of the New York-based Korea Society, who plays a pivotal role in bilateral programs with both halves of the Korean peninsula. This includes helping to broker a seven-year-long academic exchange between Syracuse University and...