Washingotn: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to Harvard University students in her first public appearance since the company's disappointing initial public offering, but refrained from addressing the controversy around its messy, glitch-plagued debut. Instead, Sandberg urged students graduating this week from Harvard's business school to work for fast-growing companies, communicate honestly and address inequality in the workplace. "We need to acknowledge openly that gender remains at issue at...
11:54 AM, May 26, 2012
Howard Gardner The Man: The professor of cognition and education at Harvard Graduate School of Education taught us why IQ is not everything; broadened the focus of the educators, and changed the way children are taught in American schools"even as he introduced the idea of multiple intelligences in the field of psychology. He tells us the meaning of truth, goodness and beauty in an age of twitter. The Oeuvre: Spans...
01:14 PM, May 25, 2012
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
Washington: Students from top American universities, including Columbia, Cornell and Harvard, would participate in the fourth edition of the Yale Hindi debate. The one of its kind debate with the preliminary on March 30 and final on April 6, the students from these top American universities would debate on theme "Higher education is not worth it". The debate, a pride for the Yale, was started in 2008 as an internal...
12:07 PM, Mar 29, 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 Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said that Harvard University should have informed him first before scrapping the courses. "I think the University should have sent the petition to me first for my comments and then decided it. But it seems like a Kangaroo ourt that has taken place in Harvard," Swamy said. Swamy said Harvard University should have a re-look at its decision to remove courses...
12:19 PM, Dec 08, 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
Cambridge: Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard officially for the first time Monday, winning a warm welcome from the university where he created Facebook and embarked on a well-chronicled meteoric ascent. It was clear Zuckerberg was no longer the dropout who left the iconic Ivy League institution, even if he still dresses in the classic campus uniform of T-shirt, jeans and sneakers. If he weren't so famous, the billionaire and Silicon...
04:30 PM, Nov 09, 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
New York: Rajat Gupta, an accused in an insider trading scam in the US, was hailed for long as a poster-boy of Indians scaling great heights in corporate echelons abroad and his friends describe him as a God-fearing, 'first-class guy'. A native of Kolkata and an IITian, Gupta moved up the corporate ladder fast after graduating from the Harvard Business School. His record boasts of posts like head of consultancy...
06:21 PM, Oct 27, 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
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