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According to James Aisner, associate director of communications at HBS, the Gleneagles Hotel sent a letter to HBS Dean Kim B. Clark '74 proposing the idea of an advanced management program to be based at the hotel's 850-acre estate last March. Clark replied with a letter declining the offer, saying that HBS preferred to keep its operations based in Cambridge...
Lederer said he envisions an advanced management program where business leaders can attend two-to-three day seminars or a longer, five-week advanced management program. Gleneagles has also contacted the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Stanford Business School and the University of Michigan Business School...
Fineberg's task force, chaired by Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson, also included former HIID director Dwight H. Perkins, Whitehead Center for International Affairs director Jorge I. Dominguez, and Program on Technology and Economic Policy director Dale W. Jorgenson...
HIID grew out of the work of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (1962-1974), and earlier projects involving Harvard advisors in international development. The institute itself was created in 1974 to coordinate Harvard's program for assistance, training, and research in the developing world. The institute had 20 overseas offices and 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million--more than some of Harvard's graduate schools. Unwieldy and hard to manage, HIID had been tarnished in recent years by allegations of scandal and corruption in Russia...
...fragment is then fed into a high-speed decoding robot. The next step, for Venter, is the most difficult. His robots e-mail their results to Celera's giant central database (said to represent more concentrated computing power than anywhere outside the Pentagon). These computers are using a sophisticated program to reassemble the genome fragments into the familiar 23 human chromosomes. The whole process can be compared to making confetti out of a stack of encyclopedias and then painstakingly reconstructing each page...