Obversely, if you were a young professor at Harvard up for a tenure vote, how comfortable would you be with your colleagues' knowing you had contributed to a tea-party initiative?
Harvard loaded up on illiquid stakes in private equity partnerships, emerging-market stocks, timberland and other commodities.
The president of Harvard recently stirred up a storm of protest by speculating that differences in aptitude, rather than discrimination, may explain why fewer women achieve excellence in science.
Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.
Nova Southeastern may not match up with Harvard or Yale when it comes to history and prestige, but the law school is trying to make up for its lack of pedigree with a technology focus.
Take Jordan Jones and Daniel Andrew, who graduated from Harvard last year after setting up a successful student tour business that began as an unofficial walking tour around Harvard Square.
Take Jordan Jones and Daniel Andrew, who graduated from Harvard in 2007 after setting up a successful student tour business that began as an unofficial walking tour around Harvard Square.
In a recent study, two groups (made up of Harvard University staff) were asked to pick mutual funds.
The University of Texas (UT) System is joining the edX online platform project set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Coursera, set up by Stanford academics, and edX, set up by Harvard and MIT, have registered more than 3.5 million students within a year of launching.
Charles Lieber wasn't supposed to end up at Harvard University.
The Harvard team suggests speeding up a project launched in 1994 to purchase 500 tonnes of highly-enriched uranium released from Russian weapons and blend it down over 20 years for use in civilian reactors.
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Paul Ridker, the Harvard cardiologist who headed up the study, notes that all of these patients should still be taking cholesterol drugs, and that this gene alone probably won't be turned into a diagnostic test.
From the onset, the Personal Genome Project, set up by Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics George Church, has warned participants of the risk that someone someday could identify them, meaning anyone could look up the intimate medical histories that many have posted along with their genome data.
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My favorite illustration of this is a study written up by Harvard placebo researcher Ted Kaptchuk and colleagues in 2008 in the British Medical Journal. 262 patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome were randomly assigned to either be on a waiting list, to get fake acupuncture, or to get fake acupuncture accompanied by lots of warm talk.
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Marx, the son of a former Harvard statistics professor, grew up in Cambridge, Mass.
Charles Collier, a philanthropic adviser at Harvard, is setting one up for an alumnus right now.
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Zuckerberg was famously abusive of privacy when Facebook started at Harvard, and he stepped up to that.
Coontz quotes the president of Radcliffe suggesting that if a Radcliffe graduate was really lucky she might end up marrying a Harvard man.
In the film Legally Blonde, Elle (played by Reese Witherspoon), as an absolutely unexpected Harvard law scholar, comes up with some totally improbable lines.
"One of things they have said quite eloquently is that not even Harvard can afford to keep up with the rising price of information, " said Tom Leonard, chief librarian at the University of California Berkeley.
Webster, 47, learned about the risks of betting on overcomplex space technology more than a decade ago, when he and two Harvard Business School classmates dreamed up the idea of launching commercial satellites with a rocket carried in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.
The Corporation recognised that Harvard could keep its edge over up-and-comers like Stanford only by remaining nimble.
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Cannon, the cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who is heading up Prove-It, dismisses concerns that his study isn't powerful enough.
Niall Ferguson, the historian at Harvard, has managed to stir up something of a rumpus over the past couple of days.
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After shining at the Harvard Law School, he set up as a commercial lawyer and within a few years was financially secure for life.
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Winston wound up choosing Columbia over Harvard, feeling a kinship with the school's longtime head coach, Bid Goswami, as well as Goswami's assistant, former Lions star Howie Endelman.
Tony Schwartz writes extensively on this topic, and one of his early articles in Harvard Business Review sums it up aptly by describing executives as corporate athletes.
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As its director, Jodi Goldstein, explained to me in a July 30 interview, HIL brings together students from across Harvard to work on start-up projects rent-free while tapping a network of experts.
From 1954 he preferred to lecture on the sidelines, first at Columbia, then at Harvard, where he helped set up the Kennedy School of Government and was a founding director of its Institute of Politics.
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