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Melting ice caps didn't figure into the fight Sunita Narain and Bhure Lal led to build the world's cleanest public-transport network. They had more pressing concerns. "New Delhi was choking to death," says Narain, 43, director of India's Center for Science and Environment. "Air pollution was taking one life per hour." Adds Lal, 63, then a senior government administrator: "The capital was one of the most polluted on earth. At the end of the day, your collar was black, and you had soot all over your face. Millions had bronchitis and asthma...
...would be naive to think that India has shed its Hindu chauvinism overnight. After the latest attack, former BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani announced he would he embarking on a "yatra," a cross between a march and a pilgrimage, to protest the pandering to "minorities" - meaning Muslims - that he said had led to the bombings. Moreover, as relations with Pakistan warm, India's nationalist hawks are all too eager to find another "anti-India" bogeyman in the rising Islamic fundamentalist movement in India's its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Nor is the absence of a riot much to celebrate...
...with HBS professors and put together an alumni advisory board.“Larry has put in a lot of the work, and to undertake a similar search a year from now would be a significant amount of effort,” said Roth Professor of Retailing Rajiv Lal. “It’s the president’s prerogative to appoint the dean. I don’t see how one can question that prerogative,” Lal added.Without a new dean, HBS will not be able to reevaluate the school’s focus...
...that good, students need to have a voice.” Harvard wouldn’t be the first school to establish a University senate—many institutions, including Stanford and Columbia, already have such bodies.A former member of Stanford’s business faculty, Rajiv Lal, who is now the Roth professor of retailing at Harvard Business School, said that “when FAS had a meeting and a vote of no confidence, there was no process by which the rest of the University could express itself. And I think that’s the thing...
...don’t fully understand what precipitated” Summers’ resignation, Lal said...