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Student spaces and course satisfaction were the topics of discussion when Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds hosted an afternoon tea for undergraduates Friday, her first since taking office this June. A group of about 25 students, which was disproportionately freshmen, joined the Dean in the Faculty Room in University Hall for tea and cookies to discuss their thoughts on the College experience. “I thought it was very enlightening,” Hammonds said following the tea. “I like to get a sense of the diversity of student opinion...
...convention will meet in Poland next week, on the 14th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, to discuss ways to address climate change after the landmark treaty expires...
...speaking in the grand, ornate temple overlooking his exile government's headquarters in Dharamsala, India, at the close of a weeklong summit of Tibetan exiles to discuss the future of their movement. He made a point of reaching out, as he often does, to the Chinese people and explicitly compared himself to the student protesters of Tiananmen Square: "We are all equal in working for democracy." He was plain about his disappointment with their leaders: "My trust in the Chinese officials is becoming thinner and thinner." (See pictures of the Dalai Lama at home in Dharamsala...
...financial behemoth could go the way of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Shares of the company, which was once the world's largest bank, closed at $3.77 on Friday. The company's board members reportedly met on Friday and will continue to talk over the weekend to discuss the firm's options. There are a number of possible outcomes, not all of which conclude with the end of Citi. "Somehow they need to get the price of their stock up," says James Ellman, a hedge fund manager at Seacliff Capital. "If they don't they...
Corporations that want to support sustainability should encourage their employees to make changes on a personal level, environmentalist and consultant Adam Werbach said in a discussion at Harvard Business School yesterday. In his lecture to a few dozen students, Werbach said he came to this revelation after Wal-Mart contacted him to discuss its environmental impact. “When I first heard [from them] I literally thought it was a prank call,” he said. But at a meeting, a Wal-Mart representative said the company was committed to eliminating waste in its operations. For several years...