Word: expertness
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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...
...awry on Oct. 7 and began sending erroneous data spikes on the plane's angle of attack (AOA) - the angle between its wings and the air flowing over them - to the flight-control computer. "For some reason, the damn computer disregarded the healthy channels," says Hans Weber, an aviation expert who heads Tecop International, an aviation-consulting firm in San Diego. "Instead, it acted upon the information from the rogue channel." The computer, responding to the faulty data, put the plane into a dive. (Read "Is There a Cause for Fear of Flying...
...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...