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...appeal, of course, can be intense. Blue-chip private equity firm the Blackstone Group, which sold 12% of itself to the public on June 22, has returned an annualized 30% over the past 20 years to the pension funds, endowments and high net-worth individuals invested in its flagship private equity portfolio. On the first day of trading, Blackstone's public shares surged...
When I enrolled at Harvard and subsequently began covering the Faculty for The Crimson, it was a time of great expectations for Harvard’s flagship faculty. It had, for the first time in nearly three decades, launched a comprehensive effort to completely revamp undergraduate education at Harvard. Meanwhile FAS, and in particular the sciences, promised to be at the center of the University’s multi-billion dollar campus expansion across the Charles River into Allston, for which plans—and donors—were being lined...
...Faust has identified restructuring FAS administration as a priority. Earlier this week, she named Michael D. Smith, a 45-year-old computer scientist and a relative newcomer to Harvard administration, to lead the University’s flagship school...
...It’s not that we’re walking away from books,” says Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline, who oversees the Harvard College library system, including the University’s flagship library, Widener...
...Smith, a 45-year-old computer scientist who has been at Harvard since 1992, will take over as dean of the Faculty, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced yesterday.Smith, currently the associate dean for computer science and engineering, will assume the leadership of the University’s flagship school in just six weeks. He has served as associate dean since 2005, and he has held a position as a tenured professor in the Faculty for only seven years. He is currently the McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.Though the chairman of a private software company and former...