News Archive

2004/08

Jonathan Zittrain on the Google IPO: Assistant Professor Jonathan Zittrain writes in a Boston Globe op-ed: "Thanks to Google's desire to align profits with the valuation of the investing public whose imagination and loyalty it has largely captured, a Silicon Valley 6-year-old's opening roar has rattled Wall Street. But as the IPO's opening bell fades, the clash between Google's contradictory egalitarian and elitist impulses are certain to make it a volatile investment as soon as next week, not to mention for years to come." [Thu, 26 Aug 2004]
Oldest Living Harvard Graduate Visits Campus: Walter Seward, Harvard University's oldest known living alumnus, may be 107 years old, but he still shudders at the mention of rival Yale and still marvels that he graduated at all. Seward, who finished Harvard Law School in 1924, visited campus yesterday as an early celebration for his 108th birthday in October. [Tue, 24 Aug 2004]
Harvard Law School Chooses Architect for Northwest Corner: Harvard Law School has chosen Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for the Law School campus and to provide the architectural design for the initial development on the School’s northwest corner. [Wed, 04 Aug 2004]