Word: academia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pair of stories tracking Harvard's industry ties. The school might have turned a whole new shade of crimson when its flunking grade from AMSA was made public last summer, but things got even uglier in November when 40 med students rallied on campus to demand that industry and academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies - sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars - that could bias their...
...schools themselves in the form of multimillion-dollar endowments. Whether or not the companies are trying to curry favor, they're also building labs and bankrolling scholarships - something that becomes increasingly important as the deteriorating economy causes philanthropic giving to dry up. No one disagrees that isolating academia from the industry may be ideal, but even many academics concede that the cooperation yields more good than harm. And while Harvard might be the highest-profile name that was posted on AMSA's grade list, it was hardly the only one that flunked: 40 out of the 150 schools surveyed received...
...stands, many government head honchos are there by way of other fields, such as academia, business, or law. Sunstein, the new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, for instance, spent 90 percent of his professional career at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law Schools. The new associate attorney general, law school grad Thomas J. Perelli, started out in top D.C. law firm Jenner & Block...
...just puts him in an awkward position. But for me it’s a win-win; and I’ll never get reviewed by him.5. FM: How do you both like working out of Harvard?JW: I think both of us feel all the intellectual benefits of academia and also the risks to the kinds of non-academic lives that we decided upon years ago. For me, this primarily involved the romance of trying to live by the pen, trying to make a salary from writing words. Obviously academics do that in a different way?...
...world has learned from experience and observation that neither neoconservative nor communist economic theories work. It is time for Professor Mankiw and other conservative opinion leaders in Congress, academia, and the media to reevaluate some of their core beliefs about economics and social justice...