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According to Robert K. Crone, who led HMI from 1995 until last year, the subsidiary was explicitly charged by the University with “sharing medical and technological know-how” and advising on “administrative and management functions.” (The Corporation did make clear, however, that it did not want HMI “to become directly responsible for the management of health care facilities...
...Under President Summers,” Crone writes, “central administration positions were removed from HMI’s Board...
According to a recent study, women spend 90 more minutes each week than men doing things they do not enjoy. I spent those minutes at the installation ceremony for University President Drew Gilpin Faust. I was wedged between an old crone who kicked things off by substituting “sisterhood” for “brotherhood” in “America the Beautiful” and a small dog who looked even less happy to be there than I was. Eventually his owners took him away, clearly realizing that it would be considered cruelty to animals...
...Construction began Monday on a state-of-the-art, 350,000-square-foot medical complex that will be the center of a collaboration between the Dubai government and Harvard Medical International (HMI), a Harvard Medical School (HMS) program which provides countries with advice on developing healthcare. Dr. Robert K. Crone, HMI’s president and CEO, said yesterday that Monday’s ceremonial ground-breaking represented a “milestone in tangible progress in the region.” The Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC), expected to be completed in mid-2007, will house post-doctoral...
...news article “Harvard Plans Its Dubai Debut” (June 27) is thought-provoking. Harvard Medical International’s (HMI) CEO Dr. Robert K. Crone is quoted as stating that Dubai is “an open society with regards to accepting individuals of all race, color and creed.” But on-campus activities, including faculty office hours, are held separately for men and women in United Arab Emirates universities. including Dubai. Is HMI going to follow a “When in Dubai, do as Arabs do” policy or a kosher...