Word: academia
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...Kelley's outlook on business so different? To hear him tell it, being around academia--Kelley got tenure to teach product design part time at Stanford's engineering school in 1990--gives him the necessary distance and perspective. "If you always stay at a company, this barbaric businessness overtakes you," he says. "You're always in execution mode. Here [at Stanford] you get to think more strategically about your profession." Or, as he tells his students, "enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of flawed intellects...
graduate students had voiced about discrimination in hiring and in academia more generally...
Back in 1988, the Wall Street Journal was calling Summers “one of the brightest and most versatile economic thinkers in academia,” while a flatteringly extensive 1991 profile in the New York Times called him “the rare economist who is equally at home in the ivory tower of pure theory and the down-and-dirty world of policy...
...dipping his toes into politics for the very first time—quietly stepping into the public eye as an economics advisor to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential campaign. Dukakis lost to George H.W. Bush, of course, but in 1991, Summers nevertheless decided to turn his back on academia and take a job in Washington as chief economist of the World Bank. “Brilliant” and “phenomenal,” the papers called him, and under such generous spotlights, Summers began to develop into a compelling public figure...
...with many artists, his passion permeates several aspects of his life. He says he lives his words, and holds those of other hip hop artists in high regard. According to Oke, academia could take some pointers from...