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Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church, finds the low attendance particularly disappointing in light of the broad intellectual aspirations inherent in the stature of the Norton Lectures. "This was supposed to be the great flagship of the humanities," he says...
...publications based in Chile. Although less than 5 percent of the Indian population—which totals nearly 1.1 billion—speaks English fluently, HBS South Asia will be published in English, making it the first international edition in the same language as the review’s flagship. The launch of the new edition comes less than a year after Harvard Business School opened the India Research Center in Mumbai—joining centers in Buenos Aires, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, Calif. Harvard’s heightened focus on India comes as the world?...
...sold to the highest bidder next month—but students and professors don’t have to worry about finding a new place to study and research. The family’s 7.5-acre former mansion in Newport, R.I.—not Harvard’s flagship library—is being sold at auction by its current owner and is expected to fetch an eight-figure sum that may approach $25 million. Both the beach front villa and Widener Library were completed in 1915 and were designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The estate, dubbed Miramar?...
...TerraCycle is willing to take it, he might as well add. Negative costs drive the company's bottom line. Only the label on the bottle of TerraCycle's flagship product is new. The product is a ready-to-use organic plant-food spray, made from the excrement of worms fed on compost and packaged in repurposed soda bottles...
...little known outside China, Lenovo catapulted to No. 3 in the world PC market (after Dell and Hewlett-Packard) with its $1.75 billion IBM purchase. The acquisition, the most high-profile overseas grab by a Chinese firm, horrified many Americans, who saw a rising China set to gobble up flagship industries in the U.S. After all, IBM virtually invented the PC 25 years...