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Look out, Bollywood. There’s a new player in the South Asian media market—the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The Harvard-owned management journal is launching its 11th international edition in Mumbai, home to the Hindi-language film industry. Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), the review’s not-for-profit parent company, announced last week that it would team with the India Today Group, a media conglomerate, on the South Asian venture. The South Asian monthly will contain close to the same content as the U.S. edition but will run regional advertising, according...
...this is the price one pays for holding popular elections. In the case of the UC, however, the whole situation is tragicomic, because the stakes are so low. The UC’s eloquent visionaries simply allocate money to student groups, provide shuttles to Yale and the airport, and launch a few badly planned social events. And since the creation of the Student Events Committee (SEC), the UC won’t even have responsibility for social events. Here, then, is an alternative “vision” for the Undergraduate Council: The UC should, by embracing politicization...
...formality and showed their collection of Ice Capades-inspired clothes against the backdrop of a full orchestra and Rufus Wainwright singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." A pair of ballroom dancers opened the show and four pairs of male-on-male ballroom dancers closed it. The purpose was to launch their new men's fragrance, Antidote, but this witty Amsterdam-based duo are not afraid to add a bit of social commentary to their work...
...when the bank pulled out in 1999. Tsering Dorje was detained, forced to sign a confession that he was working against his country and warned away from further activism. In the years that followed, he taught villagers how to raise seedlings and plant trees, and planned to launch an environment-themed Tibetan-language newspaper?only to have the authorities reject his approval requests. "If I didn't have support from the government, I knew I couldn't make a difference," he says. "So I had to leave." Tsering Dorje crossed Tibet's border with Nepal and eventually made...
Harvard is preparing to launch a spring-semester study-abroad program at the University of Havana, despite strict federal regulations on U.S. travel to communist Cuba and activists’ concerns about academic freedom in the island-nation. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Harvard College Office of International Programs (OIP) have obtained a federal license for a joint effort with Cuba’s preeminent educational institution. The U.S. government’s current embargo on trade with Cuba has stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs...