Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minute University" tenured the world's fastest talker to zip through lectures on 10 subjects key to any core curriculum. If the American mind is closed, Professor John Moschitta's curriculum will enlighten it in about as much time as it takes an automatic garage door to open and shut...
...driven politician who has maneuvered from obscurity in Congress to the top rank of the 1988 Democratic pack. Serious and smiling, able and ambitious, he has long had his eye on the prize, rarely missing a chance to advance to the highest office in sight. He is, at his core, the student-body president who turned...
Sixteen years later, Bok's suggestions remain valid. For not only do TFs often lack necessary pedagogical skills, but section leaders in Core courses especially are largely ignorant of the University's larger curricular strategy. Harvard's high-minded educational ideals, noble as they may be, cannot be realized unless those who do a substantial portion of the teaching know how to further them...
Much of the problem, however, is imbedded in the structure of the University. With its relatively small faculty, abundance of large lecture courses and chronic shortage of qualified section leaders, it is naive to think that simple solutions could cut to the core of the problem...
...takeover strategy was simple. His targets were almost invariably old companies that had strayed from their original purpose through diversification, acquired too many senior managers, and were selling at a good deal below their breakup value. He would break them up, sell off the odds and ends, streamline the core and move on to the next project. Goodyear, which Goldsmith tried to acquire last year, provides a good example. The company's original purpose, he told a congressional committee, "was to build better tires, cheaper, and sell them harder," but it diversified into oil and gas, started building an expensive...