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...English literature. But during her junior summer, she interned at the Yale Investment Office—an experience that she credits with piquing her interest in finance. Ralph Earle III ’79, Mendillo’s husband whom she met in graduate school, says at one point she weighed the possibility of working toward a Ph.D. in English literature. But after being lured into the world of finance, Mendillo chose to pursue an MBA at the Yale School of Management and worked as a summer equities analyst on Wall Street, where she says she loved...
...While department heads scrambled to draft proposals for 15 percent cuts in their budgets in accordance with a December directive from Smith, the former cryptographic researcher emerged from the frenzy of the financial uncertainty as the “point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...
...just less than a year, Forst, who formerly served as Goldman Sachs’ chief administrative officer, had refinanced Harvard’s capital structure to reduce the University’s risk in its investment strategies. From his vantage point in Mass. Hall, Forst—described as “data-driven” by Christine M. Heenan, the University’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs—was able to identify inefficiencies in the University’s administrative system and consolidate University-wide procurement of resources, Shore says. Perhaps his years...
...easily digestible. “In this way,” he said, “cooking food increases the number of calories we get from it.” This extra energy, Wrangham argues, allows humans to maintain their large brains. “Once you appreciate that point, you can understand that there has been an evolutionary adaptation taking advantage of cooked food.” At the same time, easily digestible food frees the body from the task of chewing. Chimpanzees spend half their day chewing their food, energy not spent in more constructive activities, said Daniel...
...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...