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Less than a month since former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles handed over the keys to his University Hall office, the Harvard chemist is busy living up to his old title as Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry—in more ways than...
This week, Knowles was appointed to the board of directors of Corning Incorporated, a business run by the Houghton family, who endowed Knowles’ chair...
Corning—best known for the glass-making technology it uses to provide diverse products from dishware to television screens to fiber optic cables—has close ties to the University. The company was founded 151 years ago by the Houghton family, longtime benefactors of Harvard. The company’s current chief executive, James R. Houghton ’58, is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body...
...Viacom had already spent billions connecting content with distribution. To catch up, Messier became a serial acquirer, buying the Bronfmans' Seagram Co. and its Universal movie studio, theme parks and music group for $34 billion in stock. Last year, in the U.S. alone, he agreed to buy book publisher Houghton Mifflin, music website mp3.com a 10% stake in the EchoStar satellite service, and the entertainment assets of Barry Diller's USA Networks for a total of $14.4 billion...
...Snobbery (Houghton Mifflin; 274 pages), Epstein's subject is the modern American version of this age-old vice. It's counterintuitive, but snobbery is a weed that flourishes in the soil of democracy. In the Old World, where hierarchies were strict, there wasn't much point in looking down on people who accepted that they were below you. Democracy, H.L. Mencken wrote, "is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them...