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...situation, raising the likelihood of innovation and making the organization stronger and more resilient, says Harvard Business School Professor David A. Thomas, who specializes in cultural diversity in organizations. While other dimensions of diversity are important, he says race continues to be one of the most difficult to attain...
...NCAAs, Mills took 27th place in the 200-yard butterfly and 64th in the 200-yard freestyle. Clarke locked in a 16th-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle to attain All-American status—the first female Harvard swimmer to accomplish the feat since...
...teach both of Adam Smith’s great books to a selection of Harvard’s brightest students in Social Studies 10. Each year, I wondered who among them might end up on the Supreme Court, or even in the presidency. My hope is that, when they attain positions of power, they remember what Smith had to teach them, not only about economics, but also about empathy...
...taxes his students, pushing for a level of excellence that some professional choirs never attain. In 2003, for a celebration of Marvin’s 25th year in his position, the choruses sang Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” The performance required an unprecedented amount of dedication, but elicited an effusive wave of praise from its audience. It received a glowing review from the Boston Globe: “Beethoven’s bursts of scurrying fast-tempo polyphony were as sure, swift, and unimpeded as mere human agency could make them...
...State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous “Four Freedoms” speech. He spoke of a world in which Pharaoh and his armies no longer existed. He envisioned that in the not so distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter?...