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...seminar expect that the collaboration will prove to be beneficial not only to Indian executives but to Business School students and faculty as well. Khurana said the seminar will be an “opportunity to research and develop teaching materials we can bring back to the classroom.” He added that the seminar is “also consistent with the need to understand globalization and how it is affecting business and society.” The South Asia Real Estate seminar is the latest of the Business School’s many programs in India. HBS?...
Hannah Poling is now a third grader in public school, working one-on-one with teachers in a special-ed classroom. She continues to struggle with the effects of autism and also has seizures. Her parents are hoping her case will spur additional research into the causes of autism, including the roles of vaccines and mitochondrial disorders...
University President Drew G. Faust returned to the classroom Friday morning, but to lecture parents rather than students.Faust addressed an over-capacity crowd of more than 150 junior parents on issues ranging from the College’s new financial aid initiative to academic advising.Though most of the questions centered on the core initiatives of Faust’s nascent presidency, one query channeled frustration expressed by many undergraduates of late.“I have heard from my son and his friends that the food quality is going down,” one parent asked to laughter and scattered...
...eyes" on the road to Damascus, and he became a Christian himself. Jonathan Merritt, a seminary student with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is familiar with that paradigm. "I was an enemy of the environment," he says. "I approached it with disdain. And then I was sitting in a classroom and I felt like God spoke to me and put this idea in my heart." The idea - encapsulated in the "Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" - is a strikingly potent challenge to his denomination's official stance on global warming and to his own previous scorn...
Merritt's conversion may not change the world quite as much as Paul's, but he has transformed his classroom epiphany into Topic A within his own Convention, the biggest Protestant body in the U.S. with 16 million members - and probably one of the least involved of the American religious bodies in the battle against global warming. Merritt's declaration states, among other things, "We believe our current denominational engagement with these issues has often been too timid, failing to produce a unified moral voice. Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen...