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...Boeing is one of the rare instances where the incompetence of its executives is not what is bringing the company to its knees. Good management is supposed to count for a great deal, but, under market conditions which are deteriorating quickly and over which a company has no control, a spider monkey can be at the helm...
...ninth undergraduate concentration in the life sciences and will be available beginning in the fall of 2009. The Classics department has also updated concentration requirements with its recently-adopted reforms that include eliminating general exams and having fewer language requirements. For department administrators, the key challenge may be to market these new options in a way that makes their fields both attractive and understandable for potential concentrators. HDRB representatives were present at the Advising Fortnight kickoff dinner in Annenberg Hall on April 6 to inform current freshmen about the new concentration. They will also participate in a Life Sciences Open...
...only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West—but in its recreation of a world where philosophers wandered regularly among market places and stone forums. Eight of today’s most prominent thinkers are set loose from their offices and classrooms by director Astra Taylor to roam the sites of daily life—airports, parks, Fifth Avenue. While the philosophers’ ruminations lose their grounding in academic method...
Class of '13, look no further: this is how you can fight the Freshman 15 next fall. Le Whiff, a mini inhaler that sprays the taste of chocolate without actually imparting anything caloric, is now on the market. Developed by Professor David Edwards and some of his students from Engineering Sciences 147, Le Whiff is one product of Harvard research that makes FlyBy think, "What? Cool! Why?" The answers, after the jump...
...robust 16% annual rate. The Purchasing Managers Index, an indicator of the health of the manufacturing sector, rebounded into positive territory in March after falling for months, indicating that industrial output may be expanding again. Home sales are also showing signs of recovery, as is lending. Even the stock market, which had plunged by some two-thirds from its peak in 2007, has clawed back 25% in the last few months. (See pictures of China's investment in Africa...