Word: focus
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...view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect of colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere, who laud her unceasing composure during a sudden and unanticipated financial meltdown, her decisiveness under time constraints, and her focus on long-term investment success. “Truly, of all the people I’ve ever run across in the investment world, she was the most impressive,” says Andrew B. Evans, treasurer and vice president for finance at Wellesley College, where Mendillo managed the endowment...
...consistent with the final report of the College’s Task Force on General Education, which emphasizes that since only a small fraction of graduating seniors plan to enter academia, scholarly training is comparatively less important than the sensibilities necessary to make thoughtful decisions in the world.This heightened focus on practice over scholarly theory is best reflected by the Music department’s decision to embrace musical performance.Chamber music and conducting courses will finally count toward concentration requirements, and students can qualify for honors by performing a recital at the end of senior year rather than writing...
...problems, said several Quad residents in the past. Hayward, a resident of Currier House, said he has received over 300 messages from Quad residents about the cell phone reception problem since last fall. He complimented the University’s willingness to address this issue, which he made a focus of his UC election campaign at the time. “Right now, we are working together.“ Hayward said. “In the beginning we had to demonstrate substantial student concern, but now we are on the same page...
...History department and co-taught classes with May. Iriye said that as a colleague, he was “not pompous” and treated him more like a younger brother than a junior faculty member.As a noted foreign policy scholar, May helped expand the field beyond its narrow focus on the bureaucrats involved in diplomatic relations, examining the role domestic politics and public opinion play in international relations, Iriye said.May—who spoke a variety of languages ranging from German to Spanish to Russian—also made a point to delve into foreign countries?...
...committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08. So, the committee rejected the longstanding class. But Mankiw would not take no for an answer. He resisted the committee’s suggestions to tweak Ec10, either by giving it more of a focus on current events or historical context to fit the “United States in the World” category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although Mankiw declined an interview request...