Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering that the houses have been integrated for 28 years, but nonetheless an opportunity for President Neil L. Rudenstine to pose for the cameras with proud, prominent Harvard women. Thrown in for good measure, all year long there's been a speaker series featuring women leaders in industry and academia. And lest we forget, Harvard's new president of the Board of Overseers and graduation speaker are both women, as are Lowell House's incoming masters...
...bank just got gobbled up or why your mutual-fund company has begun offering a hundred new ways for you to invest your money. He popularized the notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance. His legacy has touched every American with a home loan, a credit card or a checkbook. And it has not only...
Harvard left the ivory tower of academia for the street fighting world of Wall Street takeovers and won. Two weeks ago, Harvard finally outbid its competitor for White River Corporation in what is believed to be the largest acquisition ever by a nonprofit institution...
This year, candidates come from careers ranging from the financial world to academia. One is a New York Times arts editor, another is a former Time Magazine Man of the Year...
...equal on the streets at night, in our classrooms and in our professional endeavors. Women still face severe discrimination in hiring and pay in the workplace. The TBTN programming which addresses these concerns includes discussions of struggles of women in the church, at the Western Wall, in scientific academia and as artists and as prostitutes; a self-defense workshop; and a river run to take back the river path where numerous women have been attacked and raped...