Boston: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from...
10:09 AM, May 03, 2012
Boston: International leaders from government, business, non-profit, media and entertainment sectors are meeting in Boston over the weekend to discuss where India stands currently and where it is headed over the next decade. The discussions are part of the 9th Harvard India Conference with the theme of India: The Next Frontier, co-hosted by Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government from March 24-25 at Cambridge, Massachussetts and Boston....
12:12 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Washington: A complaint from an Indian-American student who was near the top of his high school class but was rejected by both Harvard and Princeton universities has triggered an investigation by the US Education Department. The unnamed Indian-American student in California complained that the two universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, according to a media Bloomberg report. According to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights the complaint was...
03:40 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New York: Indian academician Krishna Palepu has been appointed as senior adviser to President of Harvard University to help guide the prestigious institution's international strategy. Harvard President Drew Faust announced that Palepu, who has taught at the Harvard Business School (HBS) for almost three decades, will assume his new position of senior adviser for global strategy immediately. Professor of business administration and senior associate dean for international development at HBS,...
10:01 AM, Jan 12, 2012
New York: A day after Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy said Harvard University should have approached him first before deciding on removing his courses, the American institution said it was a norm for the faculty to annually "amend" and vote upon the course list for its summer school sessions. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had voted earlier this week to remove two economics courses that Swamy taught at the...
12:56 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New York: The Harvard University has removed economics courses taught by Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy. The decision was taken following a heated debate after two Indian students on campus submitted a petition with 450 signatures against him. The uproar is over an op-ed article Swamy wrote in the DNA newspaper in July calling for the disfranchisement of non-Hindus who do not acknowledge Hindu ancestry and a ban on conversion...
09:14 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New York: 'First world' health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they are mostly afflicting the rich and middle class while poor people remain undernourished and underweight, a study said. Researchers who looked at more than 500,000 women from 37 mid- and low-income nations in Asia, Africa and South America found that there was a clear divide between the better-off and...
11:02 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Kolkata: Months after forming the West Bengal government by defeating the communists, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation from Harvard University to give a lecture on the politics and culture of the state, officials said. Sources close to Banerjee said the formal invitation from the hallowed institution was received at the chief minister's secretariat on Saturday. Banerjee has been requested to speak on either the 'Culture and Politics...
06:13 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Los Angeles: Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about US universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Harvard conquered stiff competition from runners-up Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley based on the number of mentions it receives on the Web, according to the Global Language Monitor, which tracks...
12:19 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. In a recent article in DNA Subramanian Swamy has said that Indian Muslims must either proudly accept and acknowledge their Hindu ancestors and legacy or be disenfranchised. To many that feels like hateful, communal prejudice. But how does Doctor Swamy defend himself. That is the key issue I should put today to Subramanian Swamy himself. Doctor Swamy you are a Harvard professor,...
08:34 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Washington: Upset over his recent article on Islamic terrorism in an Indian newspaper, a group of Harvard students are urging the varsity authorities to sever ties with the Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, who teaches economics at this prestigious University every summer. "We demand that the Harvard administration repudiate Swamy's remarks and terminate his association with the University," says a petition campaign launched by students of the Harvard University. The...
08:35 AM, Jul 28, 2011
New York: Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss seeking to boost their $ 65 million settlement with the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. US District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Boston dismissed litigation over the accord, three months after a federal appeals court in San Francisco turned aside a related lawsuit. The 2008 settlement was intended to resolve...
01:03 PM, Jul 23, 2011
New York: Little is known of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, a member of the Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard believed to be the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665. Only a letter, written in Latin to a benefactor, remains. From this thread of history, Geraldine Brooks has woven "Caleb's Crossing." Narrated by the fictional Bethia Mayfield, a minister's daughter who secretly befriends Caleb, the novel traces their friendship from...
01:49 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Boston: The heroic response by employees of Mumbai's landmark Taj Hotel during the 26/11 terror attacks is now a case study at Harvard Business School that focusses on the staff's selfless service for its customers and how they went beyond their call of duty to save lives. The multimedia case study 'Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership' by HBS professor Rohit Deshpande documents "the bravery and resourcefulness shown by...
12:11 PM, Jan 27, 2011
London: The English language is enjoying unprecedented growth and has nearly doubled in size over the last century. Researchers at Harvard University and Google found that the language was expanding by 8,500 words a year in the new millennium and now stands at 1,022,000 words. The rate of increase over the years is shown by the fact that the language has grown by more than 70 per cent since 1950,...
07:07 PM, Dec 17, 2010
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