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...years.With only a month to go until the end of the fiscal year, Mendillo says she is quite certain that the projection of a 30 percent drop in the endowment, originally formulated in October, will hold. But despite the drop, she says she is confident that her team will find ways to use the crisis to Harvard’s advantage.“The time period in which we’re going to see improvement in the world economies, financial markets, and endowment performance is very much an unknown,” Mendillo says...
...also delivered some customary advice, suggesting that those in attendance make sure to have children and to find someone in their lives who “could look [them] in the eye and tell [them] the truth, every single time...
...theoretical conception. “If you take my view, it’s the practice that matters—not the legislation,” Smail says. “Curricular reforms are never going to create happy faculty or happy students, but we’ll find a way to make it work.” Other faculty members are similarly pragmatic. The next three to five years will be a time for trial and error, says Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Stephanie H. Kenen—who will serve as Gen Ed’s administrative director...
...This finding has been described as the “Hedonistic Paradox”, which states that those who seek happiness for their own benefit often find themselves disappointed, whereas those who seek to improve the well-being of others may have a greater likelihood of being happy themselves. Research shows that those who are altruistic and selfless often have higher levels of happiness. Psychologists Ed Diener and Pelin Kesebir write, “Happiness appears to bring out the best in humans, making them more social, more cooperative, and even more ethical.” These findings are consistent...
...Stalin, and Deng Hsiao Ping were little over five feet tall. Physical traits such as physique, intellectual traits such as IQ, and personality traits such as extroversion have been extensively examined by researchers, but with poor explanatory results. Tests have shown there is no leadership gene. While studies might find a certain trait to be significant, there always seems to be considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns...