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...financial focus, increasing its market share and winning back clients by cutting fees, according to BusinessWeek. In fiscal year 2006, Chenault netted $1.1 million in salary and nearly six times that in bonuses, according to Forbes.com. Originally from New York City, Chenault graduated magna cum laude in history from Bowdoin College in 1973 and then moved to Cambridge to attend law school. Armed with his HLS degree, Chenault worked for a brief time as an attorney at Rogers & Wells before crossing the line into the financial world as a management consultant for Bain & Co., where he worked until 1981. Since...
...place in an 18-team field.Senior skipper Matt Knowles and senior crew Emily Simon scored 76 points for the team in their seventh-place showing, while sophomore skipper Jon Garrity and senior crew Ashley Nathanson finished in fifth-place for Harvard.The host-Terriers, Yale, South Florida, Boston College and Bowdoin took the top five spots.THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson once again sent its top fleet to the US Coast Guard Academy on Saturday and Sunday, this time for the Thompson Trophy. Harvard raced 32 times over the two days, finishing fifth overall with 255 points, just four more than Connecticut College...
...Nine schools finished the action at the Tufts-hosted Gibb Trophy, held Saturday and Sunday. A dominating performance saw the hosts take first-place with just 81 points, 69 ahead of Salve Regina and Bowdoin in second- and third-places, respectively...
...Even more pernicious is what critics call "ranksteering," i.e., specifically tailoring administrative decisions to move higher up on the list. The rankings encourage more per-pupil spending, which makes up 10% of a school's score and certainly doesn't help keep tuition down. Indeed, Bowdoin College watched its ranking slip from fourth to eighth in the '90s as it balanced its budget rather than keep pace with peers' spending increases. "Evaluating education in a way that rewards institutions for building Jacuzzis and rock walls as much as for investing in what happens in the classroom is a system that...
...team. Continuing its streak, the Crimson came in ninth for the seventh time in as many contests this weekend at the University of Vermont Carnival. With the alpine team competing at Stowe and the Nordic side at the Trapp Family Lodge, Harvard edged St Michael’s and Bowdoin with a total score of 186.0 points. “I think we had one of our best weekends ever as far as team improvement has gone since I’ve been there in five years,” Nordic coach Peter Graves said. “Every week...