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...addition to trying to attract more individual students to their various offerings, the IOP has tried to work more closely with other student groups. The new grants board has a $25,000 annual fund earmarked for the politically minded projects of other student groups...
...have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine, so as to attract heat-seeking missiles away from the chopper...
...human resources” are the “most vital input” for the realization of Harvard’s academic mission. Ergo: “Harvard’s pursuit of excellence in teaching and research requires compensation and other employment practices that attract, retain and motivate employees to facilitate and undertake these activities.” In other words, Harvard only has to be nice because doing so helps fulfill its academic mission. That’s the report’s central claim, and it only supports HCECP’s proposals insofar as they...
Therein lies the future of e-mail. Spam messages aimed at attracting customers are ineffective; people are even less likely to respond to e-mail from unfamiliar sources than they are to answer paper junk mail. Jupiter Media Metrix, based in New York City, estimates that marketers pay $125 to attract each new customer using e-mail and only $66 using direct mail. But customers are more receptive to firms they already do business with. Inducing an existing customer to make a new purchase costs $6 using e-mail, vs. $18 for direct mail. Says Jared Blank, a digital-commerce...
Harvard also has good reason to award tenure more frequently to junior faculty members. Junior faculty have already developed relationships with students and are familiar with teaching at Harvard. And if it becomes well-known that there is potential for promotion from within, Harvard will attract even better scholars to its junior ranks. Unfortunately, only 36 percent of tenure appointments went to junior faculty between 1996 and 2000—even though many of the most qualified candidates are right here under our noses...