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...timid or backward thinking; engineers try to improve working systems by modifying them. In fact, radical design changes usually fail. Marketers always like to talk about bold innovations, but real businesses never offer radical inventions to consumers without testing them. They try out novel ideas on small groups and abandon most of them, rather than ostentatiously announcing them to the entire world as the way of the future.Understand a problem before you try to solve it. “Shaking things up”—making random changes to a system rather than analyzing its operation?...
...Hall official disputes that FAS’s financial position will not affect undergraduates.“It’s the position the College is in where it is literally begging for handouts,” says the administrator.The FAS budget squeeze has already forced the College to abandon several renovation initiatives. The Group III budget, a $200,000 fund for renovating undergraduate Houses, was eliminated this spring.“If you are going to keep everyone on campus, then you are going to need to provide for students,” says Corker.According to a Harvard administrator...
...depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even amid brutal conditions. In 1983's The Ballad of Narayama, one of two Imamura films to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, residents of a mythic 19th century village struggle with an edict requiring them to abandon their elders to die on a mountain. "I want to make messy, really human, unsettling films," he said...
...faculty didn’t necessarily agree with the direction we were heading, but the collision course that it seemed like we were on was avoided. We were not especially keen to provoke a fight with the faculty but we weren’t willing to abandon our plans either.” The following year, the Review adopted an affirmative action policy that allowed the editors to consider race in selecting its new members. BRINGING IN THE FAIRER SEXIn the ensuing years, the Review has also been criticized for the dearth of women on its staff, a matter left...
...Iraq, and I will take on my friends who argue for turning Iran into a giant parking lot. I wish more Harvard students were willing to challenge the structures of authority that govern our daily lives and limit our capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement speakers...