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...There are better ways for Harvard to work with industry. Yale made headlines in 2001 when it partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibb to jointly announce that they would permit the sale of low-priced generic drugs in South Africa, which led to a 96-percent reduction in the price of one first-line HIV treatment. More recently, the University of British Columbia has formalized a policy that will incorporate global access wherever possible into agreements with industry. These licensing policies for global access cost a negligible amount because markets in developing countries generate so little revenue. The benefits of these...
...chip firms are the ones that make headlines. New research suggests that in times of recession, large employers disproportionately lose workers, while small companies, as a group, fare better. "It's definitely the case that large firms are downsizing much faster in recessions," says Giuseppe Moscarini, an economist at Yale University who conducted the research with Fabien Postel-Vinay of the University of Bristol...
...experience, but I was always conscious that most students did not have that view.”Many of Kagan’s former classmates cite large class size as the driving factor behind the widespread grumbling among the student body. Compared to other top-tier schools such as Yale or Stanford—which have been characterized as having happier students—Harvard’s class size is roughly three times as large.“It was easy to think you were one of a million,” says William K. Kelley, a fellow student...
...composer, conductor, and classical music commentator, Rob Kapilow truly knows classical music—from its creation to its presentation to its reception by the general public. The National Public Radio veteran and former Yale music professor has dedicated his career to attuning the untrained ear to the pleasures of classical music. He recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to discuss his efforts to make classical music accessible to all. His upcoming performance of the Dr. Seuss adaptation “Green Eggs and Hamadeus,” a children’s musical, takes place February...
...wages, according to John F. Bowman ’11, one of the protest’s organizers. Bowman said that Harvard has at least $69.9 million invested in HEI, though the actual investment may be larger. The students launched the protest following a joint meeting with Yale and Brown two weeks before Valentine’s Day. Representatives from the three schools met in Providence and decided to organize the protest in order to show student solidarity for the movement against the company. HEI Hotels draws approximately 80 percent of its funding from university endowments. Students from Harvard agreed...