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Robert N. Anthony, the Walker professor of management controls emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died last week in Hanover, N.H. at the age of 90. He was best known for “Essentials of Accounting,” a ground-breaking self-paced primer that was first published in 1964 and is still widely used today...
...France came under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses of the Battle of Britain, sentiment was no longer divided, according to Morton and Phyllis Keller’s book “Making Harvard Modern.” Learned Hand Professor of Law Emeritus Oliver Oldman ’42 remembers that, by his senior year, campus sentiment was unified. “By and large, the isolationist view made no sense,” he said.The debate was rendered moot after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor Saturday...
...It’s really hard to make these, but they’re so cool.” In addition to food and crafts, the event featured a wide range of musical performances, including Nipmuc flute playing, traditional Lakota singing, and Senegalese drumming. David H. Maybury-Lewis, emeritus Henderson research professor of anthropology, founded Cultural Survival in 1972 after he conducted research on the indigenous people of Brazil with his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis...
Looking for an accurate depiction of Beethoven’s life—without having to read a book? If you’ve considered the newly released film “Copying Beethoven,” Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus Lewis H. Lockwood would probably advise you to spend your hard-earned money elsewhere. “Historically, it’s dreadful,” Lockwood says of the film, which depicts a fabricated relationship between an irascible Beethoven—played by Ed Harris—and a fictional female copyist. Yet Lockwood doesn?...
...there's one thing we know about our risky world, it's that seat belts save lives, right? And they do, of course. But reality, as usual, is messier and more complicated than that. John Adams, risk expert and emeritus professor of geography at University College London, was an early skeptic of the seat belt safety mantra. Adams first began to look at the numbers more than 25 years ago. What he found was that contrary to conventional wisdom, mandating the use of seat belts in 18 countries resulted in either no change or actually a net increase in road...