Word: expert
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...some saw as excessive company compensation. Meyer, a 15-year veteran of HMC, had grown the endowment from $4.7 billion to $26 billion, achieving an annualized average return rate of 15.9 percent over his last decade there. He was succeeded by Mohamed A. El-Erian, an emerging markets bond expert and former economist for the International Monetary Fund, who rebuilt HMC’s internal infrastructure but stayed for only two years. By the time she arrived, Mendillo was dealing with not only a new staff but also small glimpses of the crumbling financial landscape that would engulf her first...
...Jackson, an expert in financial regulation and budget policy, brings a wealth of experience to the budgetary process through his research interests and familiarity with the school’s finances from having served as Kagan’s vice dean for the budget since...
...female graduate student.Unlike the two incidents that came before it, students and Dominguez’ colleagues remember this case presenting a unique challenge to University officials desperately trying to assuage a hemorrhaging wound that the harassment cases had opened. Dominguez, widely considered the department’s foremost expert on Latin American politics, taught Government 2105: “Field Seminar in Comparative Politics,” a class that would be necessary for almost any government student preparing for general exams in that field.Putnam said that the Department assigned him to co-teach the course with Dominguez to minimize...
...dozen years. That this fellow scholar did not receive tenure is a comfort to me. However, I cannot but recognize the ethos of which he is an unsophisticated manifestation. The cult of expertise—and the pride of being named the “top” expert, by virtue of being the expert at Harvard—sometimes makes us fear to question each other. Both faculty and administrators often make decisions that affect the state of knowledge and the functioning of the university, and I often feel that the explanation has not been made clear, that asking...
...Harvard, I have learned that universities are not neutral venues for the production of knowledge. Their architecture insinuates a framework that indeed penetrates the substance of knowledge. Lecture halls, for example, dictate the centrality of the expert and the silence of an audience whose members are invisible and inaudible. The audience would appear to have nothing to contribute to the professor’s knowledge or to its own. As a professor, I have learned always to turn my lectures into seminars, so that my students do not watch the clock and doodle as I did in college...