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Where Dell makes no attempt to distinguish its products, relying instead on process and price to give it advantage, Apple has succeeded in recent years by delivering an innovative, elegant product line. Apple’s strength, and the source of its strategy, is the quality of its product line; it focuses on quality above those critics who claim it must expand its market share “or die.” Its new operating system, OS X, is the sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over...
...only the administrative head of the faculty, he was their academic and intellectual leader, which would distinguish him from many deans,” said Abbe Professor of Economics Dale W. Jorgenson. “It’s very hard to visualize somebody playing that role as effectively as Dean Knowles...
...psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence and co-author of Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press), hitting stores later this month, it couldn't be more important. "Softer" skills such as empathy, intuition, and self- and social awareness, in his view, are what distinguish great leaders--and successful companies...
First, with grades as high and compressed as they are, there is much less room for professors and TFs to distinguish between work of differing quality. If the scale for a paper grade effectively ranges only from A to B, it becomes extremely difficult to differentiate between an excellent paper and a mediocre...
...here to learn and not to compete, that the pleasure derived from a course should not be proportional to the grade we receive. The problem with this claim is that it’s really not true. We are here to learn, but we are also here to distinguish ourselves. In an academic community, distinguishing ourselves means pushing forward our accumulated knowledge of the world, working to improve our collective understanding, not just ourselves. Harvard is no longer a gentleman’s finishing school, but a serious place of intellectual inquiry, which can give the resources to push knowledge...