BOSTON, MA – October 12, 2012 – Harvard University and Harvard Business School have received a $40 million gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation. The gift was given in tribute to the life and legacy of the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, beloved matriarch of this most prominent and accomplished Chinese American family. It will support both students in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and participants in the School’s Executive Education programs. The Chao family, who is the only family in the School’s history to have four daughters attend, poignantly made their gift during the 50th anniversary celebration of women in Harvard’s MBA program and the 375th anniversary of Harvard University.
(Front L to R)Mayor Menino, Predident Faust, Dr. Chao, Secretary Chao and Dean Nohria. (Photo by Susan Young)
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Hornoring Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, Dr. James S. C. Chao Gives $40 Million to Harvard Business School
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Aung San Suu Kyi to Deliver Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School
CAMBRIDGE MA — Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver the annual Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School on September 27th. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge.
VOA’s Scott Stearns interviews Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at VOA in Washington D.C., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (VOA/A. Klein)
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HKS Conference Focuses on “The Truly Disadvantaged”, Poverty, Race and Inequality
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Twenty-five years after the publication of Professor William Julius Wilson’s groundbreaking book, “The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy,” Wilson and more than 20 leading social science scholars from throughout the country will gather September 14 at Harvard University. The one-day conference, organized by Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Malcolm Wiener Center on Social Policy, will focus on the latest thinking on poverty and economic inequality as outlined by Wilson in the afterword of his book’s second edition (The University of Chicago Press, 2012).
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Eric Kester: That Speech for Fifth Grade Class President
By Eric Kester, author of That Book About Harvard
My fellow 5th Grade-icans,
I am not running for class president because I have a bigger baseball card collection than the other candidates — which I do — but because I am a patriot and I love my class in a totally non-cootie related way. We were once the greatest class in the entire school, and we still are because the principal looks down on us and smiles. He loves our class, I love our class and we are crazy awesome, so keep that in mind while I now explain why we suck so hard.
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Harvard Study – Americans’ Confidence in Leaders Hits New Low
Cambridge, MA—Not only in politics but across the board in eight different sectors of national life, Americans have lost confidence in their leaders over the past year. Overall, some 77% say that the country now has a crisis in leadership, and confidence levels have fallen to the lowest levels recorded in
recent times.
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Photo Journal – Harvard China Education Symposium Second Annual Meeting
By Bo Yang, May 12, 2012
I was asked to be photographer for Harvard China Education Symposium(CES) second annual meeting at Harvard University School of Education. The conference started in the evening of May 11, and ended at around 6 PM on May 12. I took hundreds of pictures and was really impressed by the passion and enthusiasm of all the attendees of this year's CES annual meeting. I'm a member of the Boston Chinese Photography Association (BCPA). Pictures below were ordered by the time they were shot, earliest on top. 
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No Look Pass – A Sure Hit in Its Boston Premiere at Brattle Theatre
By David Li, bostonese.com
In the evening of March 24, documentary film No Look Pass had its Boston area premiere at Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. About 300 people, including many current and former Harvard Women’s Basketball team members, were on hand to welcome back director Melissa Johnson, a former lady Crimson.
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