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For a woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor...
When former University President Lawrence H. Summers formally announced his resignation in 2006, several of his most loyal alumni supporters voiced their displeasure at his ouster with the largely symbolic threat of withholding all future donations.James B. Davis ’75 called it a “disgrace.?...
The first-years—members of the American Medical Students Association, a national group that has made waves by rating medical school conflict of interest policies—alleged that a board position held by Professor Paul G. G. Richardson raised concerns because a drug marketed by that company...
Ernest R. May, a genial professor who led Harvard College with collectedness and a sense of diplomacy and stood at the forefront of the study of U.S. foreign relations over his 55 years at Harvard, died Monday from complications following surgery. He was 80.May left his mark on the University...
This finding has many potential psychological explanations. For example, it could be that individuals are mainly concerned with their relative wealth in comparison to others. If incomes grow consistently across the socioeconomic distribution, then we would not expect to see happiness grow much at all, save for those in the...