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...These seminars allow faculty members and students to explore subjects that are not gone over in a class. They also provide an opportunity for faculty members to experiment with ideas for full-fledged courses,” said HBS Professor Arthur I. Segel, who led the “Success Through Failure” seminar. “It was a very useful experience for me and my students...
Nowhere was that more true than in the ill-conceived investment to turn the twinned 11,000-unit middle-class housing complex known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built originally to accommodate World War II veterans, into luxury housing, for which limits on yearly rent increases are chucked in favor or whatever the market will bear. The prospectus offered by the lead investors, Tishman Speyer and Larry Fink's asset-management fund BlackRock, imagined evicting 50% of rent-regulated tenants in just a few years. But tenants fought back and won in a court decision that also undercut...
Usnavi, who owns a corner store that sells lottery tickets, hands out his own form of hope to the inhabitants of the Heights every day. Beltran himself is tall and skinny, and can contort his dancer’s body into a perfect gangly imitation of a typical class clown. When he dances, his lanky frame whips gracefully through the throngs of dancers with intense energy and verve...
Upon graduating as the class of 1958’s Latin salutatorian and class poet, Segal remained at Harvard to earn both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He later taught classics at several other Ivy League institutions, and, after teaching classics at Yale from the 1960s through the 1980s, became an honorary fellow at Oxford University’s Wolfson College...
Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...