Word: focusing
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...three games, the Crimson never once fell behind Georgia Southern. The Eagles rallied strongly several times in the first and third sets and kept it close in the second, but momentum-killing performances from Ingersoll and McKinley kept them at bay.Determined to keep its commanding leads, Harvard maintained its focus throughout the contest, winning the three sets 25-14, 25-16, 25-16.As for the junior co-captains, Durwood dealt out 34 assists and three digs and Katherine Kocurek supplied another 11 digs.JAMES MADISON 3, HARVARD 1Played fittingly at high noon, the Crimson’s first match...
Other experts think b-schools should go even further, by not only increasing the number of courses they offer but also revising their syllabi, which currently focus heavily on mathematical modeling (a forecasting technique that uses historical data and assumptions). "People shouldn't bury themselves in the mathematics, because the mathematics are only tools," says Kenneth Froot, a professor at Harvard Business School who teaches courses in risk management. "One needs to have a wide and robust vocabulary to talk about risk, simply because no single mathematical formula is going to capture all of what risk...
...steeped in the particulars that they don't always see the forest for the trees. They get the math, but they don't pay attention to systemic issues within the broader economy; it's a by-product of degree programs that encourage students to take a narrow focus too early on in their studies. "In medicine you become a doctor first, and then you become a specialist," Morici says. "In finance, you just become a specialist...
...weekend, being four shots down to Princeton wasn’t really too scary,” Harvey said.“We knew we had come from behind in the past,” captain Ali Bode (81-79-160) said. “We try not to focus on score, and that’s really when things fall into place and we start making up the strokes.”Scores were higher yesterday, and a second round 311 allowed Harvard to overtake the Tigers and win the invitational by two strokes.“We actually...
...included the mutilated remains of many women and children. As this sobering report makes clear, the United States still has much work to do in Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have been rising largely under the radar of a western media focused on elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan civilian deaths this year, 395 of which were due to airstrikes. The immediate objective should thus...