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...glory came on Dec. 28, when Harvard (8-5, 1-0 Ivy) met Pac-10 entry California in the opening round of the Golden Bear Classic. Barring a surprise postseason appearance by the Crimson in March, California—with its top-30 RPI ranking—is the premier opponent Harvard will face all year. The Bears hardly looked like it during last Friday’s game, but even with Cal’s 17 turnovers and 36 percent shooting, Harvard was still overmatched, falling 69-54. The Crimson had to settle for a consolation win the next...
Most of today's B2B survivors have learned key lessons from the flameouts of firms like Ventro of Mountain View, Calif. Born in 1997, the dotcom promised to become the premier marketplace for laboratory tools and chemicals and attracted bushels of investor capital. That inspired it to build other exchanges for medical supplies, packaged foods and everything in between. Its stock soared to $244 a share in February 2000. But it ran up enormous costs trying to create online catalogs that could interface with the wide variety of purchasing programs already used by its clients. And those costs would have...
...playing in front of throngs, but Prasse-Freeman has emerging as one of the premier playmakers in the Ivy League. Having originally prided himself on his passing skills alone, Prasse-Freeman has developed into a legit scoring threat, especially from the outside. Last year he finished the season averaging just shy of 10 points per game...
With a professional career spent nearly entirely at small liberal arts colleges, undergraduates and teaching were among Pusey’s prime concerns. But according to former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, the greatest progress came in assuring Harvard’s place as one of the premier research universities. “Harvard moved forward more as a research university under Pusey than under any other president,” Rosovsky says...
Schmidt's creation, GuideStar.org has grown into the nation's premier nonprofit database, offering financial information on more than 850,000 organizations. With GuideStar feeding the search engines of such major giving sites as JustGive.org and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, it's small wonder grant seekers are trying to shape up their balance sheets. Schmidt has already noticed fewer math errors. And many groups have transformed their self-descriptions on the heavily scrutinized tax forms from terse one-liners to polished donation pitches...