Word: mergers
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...Harvard moved to streamline its services for students seeking counseling and treatment. Before that, mental health professionals were scattered across Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel and University Health Services. Barreira, then a psychiatrist at Harvard’s McLean Hospital, was brought in to facilitate the merger. He was named director of University Counseling, Academic Support, and Mental Health Services. But administrative reorganization is only half the battle. Barreira also says that mental health professionals on campus have to combat “social norms” that hinder students from seeking treatment. One way to lift...
...ultimately failed, but only because of a technicality: the state’s Supreme Judicial Court refused to let MIT sell its Back Bay land to fund the merger...
...nearly five decades as a Harvard administrator, L. Fred Jewett ’57 oversaw the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices, expanded the scope of Harvard’s recruitment efforts beyond white male New Englanders, and later in his career—while serving as Dean of the College—made the decision to randomize the House lottery...
...startling interview with the Financial Times, John Negroponte, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, said Qaeda is on the move in North Africa, as well as in the Sahel region, in such countries as Chad, Mali and Niger. Negroponte also said we should brace ourselves for a merger between Qaeda and the Algerian fundamentalists. I heard the same thing from a Libyan official, who said that one day in the near future Qaeda-associated groups could pose a threat to Libya's stability. Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia left a vacuum Qaeda is quickly filling...
...result: consolidation amid plenty. In March the government approved a long-planned merger between state-owned carriers Air India and Indian Airlines. Meanwhile, Jet Airways, the country's largest full-service carrier, is buying rival Air Sahara for $340 million and, perhaps more important, more gates at congested airports. The mergers are "an attempt by players to basically get some kind of stability into the market," says Kapil Kaul, New Delhi--based CEO for India and the Middle East at CAPA. "What we're seeing now is sanity beginning to prevail...