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...arrived at Harvard in January 2001 as the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and has been working to form the Institute in its new post-merger mission...
Council member Zachary L. Bercu ’04, one of the two who opposed the measure, said he wanted to keep the name as a reminder of the University’s history. Until Radcliffe’s merger with Harvard on Oct. 1, 1999, all female undergraduate were officially students of Radcliffe College...
Until the early 1970s, the University operated two data centers—one for the central administration and academics and one for research data. Ciannavei was the UIS manager who oversaw the merger of those two systems into one center...
...markets and liquidity rise, while demergers often occur after things go bust. "Clearly there is quite a cyclical and fashionable element involved," says HSBC's Russell. That's partly explained by the investment banks' need to make money regardless of market performance. "If you can't do the merger, do the spin-off. In bad times, the spin-off is the easier sell," Minichiello says. Management comes under pressure from investors to "do something," and the investment banks are there with the answer - get rid of an unloved unit. And if markets regain their stratospheric heights, it's a safe...
Unlike their predecessors, who negotiated the Harvard-Radcliffe merger in top secret board rooms, Faust and Knowles drafted this just-released letter through a series of e-mail exchanges over winter vacation...