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...Debora L. Spar, Spangler professor of business administration and senior associate dean for faculty recruiting at HBS; Peter Tufano ’79, Coleman professor of financial management and director of faculty development at HBS; and Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former dean of Berkeley??s Haas School of Business.All six were mentioned by Business Week or the Financial Times.Tyson served as the national economic adviser in the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s, working alongside Summers, who was in the Treasury Department at the time. Most of those professors who discussed specific...
...Hernquist were a woman beginning a career, Hernquist says he might favor an institution like Berkeley??which has a reputation for a fairly painless tenure process. “Having a choice like that to me would seem like a no-brainer...
...it’s the chess board on the screen in front of him that is Turnbull’s most identifying feature. In spite of a peripatetic early life—growing up in an academic household, dropping out of Harvard, living homeless in Berkeley??Turnbull, a member of the Class of 1971, is today known best as “The Chessmaster” of Harvard Square...
...April 2003, the University of California (UC) Berkeley proposed a ban on student-professor relationships in the wake of a sex scandal surrounding a student at Berkeley??s law school and the school’s then-dean. Berkeley, like many other schools, had an “unwritten rule” that students and faculty should not get involved, according to Gayle Binion, chair of UC’s Academic Senate and a political science professor at UC Santa Barbara...
Students and administrations are often too quick to stifle ideas with which they disagree rather than having a meaningful dialogue. One would only have to look as far as UC Berkeley??s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able...