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...year-old practice of prohibiting students from disclosing their grades, Acting Dean Jay O. Light announced in a letter to the HBS student body yesterday. The new policy, which will give students the option of showing their grades to potential employers, will apply to future classes, but will not affect MBA candidates currently enrolled at the school. In yesterday’s letter, Light wrote that the new policy was crafted to let HBS students take personal responsibility for their academic work. “Fundamentally, I believe it is inappropriate for HBS to dictate to students what they...
...Saudi culture is definitely not a self-accuasatory culture. It’s a culture of blame,” Wisse said. “The question is, will it affect the way the subjects are taught...
Scientists at Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute have mapped the genes of man’s best friend, the dog, in the hopes of uncovering insights into diseases that affect both humans and canines. The results, published in the December 8 issue of the science journal Nature, include the first comparative analysis of three mammalian genomes—human, mouse, and dog. Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, a graduate student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and one of the leaders of the research project, said that researchers were surprised that the sequences that...
...reducing its faculty by about 230 positions before it reopens for the spring semester, the university announced on Dec. 8. Five undergraduate academic programs will be dropped, most of them in the engineering field. “Even if most of us can keep our majors, the cuts affect all of us because many members of our community will be leaving,” Hattier wrote. Tulane is also cutting eight athletic programs: men’s track, men and women’s tennis, men and women’s golf, women’s swimming, women?...
...pricey organic and ethically produced groceries pulled in $4.7 billion in its last fiscal year. All those profits, yet the company measures its performance by the value it creates for six stakeholders: its customers, its employees, its investors, its vendors, communities where it operates and the environments those operations affect. "The art of leadership," says Mackey, "is to balance different constituencies and try to create value...