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Annual gifts to HBS are down 10 percent since September, according to Chief Financial Officer Donella M. Rapier. The drop is not huge, but nevertheless it is reason for concern, Rapier says...
Already, HBS has cancelled one six-week course in Tokyo and several three-day executive programs due to lack of enrollment, according to Rapier...
...Jenn gets animated. Her hands start waving, her voice raises an octave and expands in volume. Her opera singer attitude comes out as her chest starts to heave and she argues people into the ground with a rapier wit and undying rationality. Her work at 48 Hours and Salomon Smith Barney only hints at Jenn’s capacity for power. Once she puts on her Armani pants suit, Jenn is ready to hit the City and take over the town. Besides an obvious marriage to a rich and successful man, a big house in Greenwich and a bevy...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Chief Financial Officer Donella M. Rapier said that while many of its peer schools have already taken across-the-board cost cutting measures, HBS hopes to avoid wide-ranging cuts. “We’re looking very closely at any discretionary spending and limiting that,” she said...
...Allen Roses, a rapier-tongued contrarian then at Duke University, challenged the beta-amyloid orthodoxy. He announced that he and his colleagues had found a major Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene that affected the late-onset forms of the disease. It was the gene for APOE4, a common variant of the APOE lipoprotein, which is one of the many workhorses of the body's cholesterol-transport system. What, everyone wondered, could this lipoprotein, a known risk factor for heart disease, possibly have to do with Alzheimer's? Very quickly, many concluded that Roses could not be right...