In her keynote speech, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS, explained the opportunities behind societal changes such as a decline in traditional families, and stressed the importance of understanding the reasons behind the changes.

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Davidson hooked up with two partners (veteran journalist Sauter, now executive VP for content, and fellow banker Matthew L. Cohen, now executive VP for administration and finance).

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Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, established a set of field studies in which female second-years researched the reasons behind differing academic performances between male and female students.

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"We want to make sure that individuals do not lose their group health coverage because they lack information about the steps to take to protect those rights, " said Ann L. Combs , assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, when the rules were released.

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The investigation would cover every branch of the Vatican administration, the AFP news agency cites Giovanni Maria Vian, director of L'Osservatore Romano, as saying.

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Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.

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