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...senior associate deputy minister of finance was named the next governor of the Bank of Canada last Thursday and will assume the seven-year position in February. Carney, who concentrated in economics and lived in Winthrop House, received his master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Oxford. “He was someone who the younger members of the team looked up to,” William C. Kennish ’89, a teammate of Carney on the junior varsity ice hockey team, said in a statement e-mailed from London...
Daniel J. Hemel ’07 is a Marshall scholar studying international relations at Oxford. He was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson...
...also possessed of a considerable intelligence, itself at odds with what is now called fashion intelligence, which means tracking trends, being In, going out. So what does Harlech do? She reads, she thinks, and ever since she joined England's Harpers & Queen as a junior fashion editor post-Oxford, she's had a marvelous way with old lace. That wouldn't lead to a position of influence for most people, but then, most people do not have Harlech's ability to weave romance through clothes. John Galliano was entranced for a dozen years and then Lagerfeld, who hired her away...
...their new book, Multi-nationals in their Communities, two British academics look at well-run CSR projects and how they help the communities where they operate. Ian W. Jones, a management lecturer at Oxford University, and Michael G. Pollitt, a reader in business economics at Cambridge University, co-direct the Ethics, Regulation and Globalisation project at Cambridge's Centre for Business Research. Time talked to them about the challenges and benefits of good corporate citizenship...
...Slattery and his family evacuated to Oxford, Miss. and watched the events unfold from the TV in their hotel. After a stop in Tennessee, the Slattery family took refuge in Houston, and Tommy and his father snuck back to New Orleans to salvage what they could from their home—one of the few that hadn’t been flooded. By this time, Slattery had waited too long to transfer to other schools, holding out hope that Tulane would reopen for the semester. The only schools that Slattery knew were still accepting students were Harvard and a Panhandle...