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...entrenched solely in the corporate world.“I knew I didn’t want to work in an enormous institution,” he recalled in an interview with the HBS Bulletin in 1989.Baker was a general partner at the New York-based investment firm Baker Nye Greenblatt and a senior trustee for the George F. Baker Trust, a $15 million fund established through the will of his grandfather that gives charitable gifts to medical and educational organizations.In addition to making significant donations to Harvard, Baker also contributed to Columbia University, Dartmouth University, and Georgetown University.In...
...Bill Nye the Science Guy has inspired lots of middle schoolers to take apart their clock radios. It turns out the PBS host has also inspired a couple of TV executives to try an experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star...
...Clinton administration diplomat told students and faculty at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night. Richard N. Gardner ’48, who served as ambassador to Italy and Spain, discussed his political philosophy and related his experiences in a conversation with University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye of the Kennedy School of Government, Gardner made the case for a return to President Carter’s foreign policy approach, which focused on human rights and international cooperation. “I guess I am old-fashioned enough to believe that idealism can be realism, and that soft...
...honor and is given to acknowledge “outstanding community involvement, dedication to the cause of American-Israeli friendship, and devotion to peace and the security of human life.” Previous recipients of the award include former dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and former Massachusetts governor Michael S. Dukakis. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...pouring $20 million from national lottery receipts into its trial digital systems, which cost around $100,000 each, compared with $30,000 for a conventional system. "The ukfc broke the mold in terms of actually doing something, as opposed to just talking about it," says Richard Nye of Canada-based projector manufacturing firm Christie, which will provide almost 200 of Britain's new projectors. But paying for ongoing costs, such as transferring films from 35-mm to digital, encoding them and getting them to movie theaters, calls for more creative solutions. Avica, which makes servers, wants to digitize...