Word: focusing
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...this afternoon at Harvard Business School (HBS) to address graduates of the Class of 2007, parents, and alumni as part of the Class Day ceremony. Chenault is president of AMEX and has chaired the board of directors since 2001. He is credited with reorienting AMEX’s financial focus, increasing its market share and winning back clients by cutting fees, according to BusinessWeek. In fiscal year 2006, Chenault netted $1.1 million in salary and nearly six times that in bonuses, according to Forbes.com. Originally from New York City, Chenault graduated magna cum laude in history from Bowdoin College...
...It’s a fantastic resource. It is a women’s center and its focus is to provide support to women on campus, but as a male student, I find the place equally welcoming to me, and I’ve actually been there many times,” Barnhill says...
...Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month. Yet the road to where we are today has left Harvard and the Faculty deeply scarred and has exposed serious flaws within FAS that threaten to undermine the new curriculum just as they did the soon-to-be-defunct Core...
...also quickly squashed. Once again a Faculty committee was sent to the drawing board. Unable to agree on anything and fatigued of the issue, professors last month approved a new set of proposals, which effectively upgrades the Core by redefining it with a more contemporary focus and eschewing the Core’s strict requirements on the number of papers and exams an approved General Education course must offer...
...Faust says she will focus initially on gaining Boston’s approval of the 50-year master plan, filed last December, and breaking ground on the planned 500,000-square-foot science complex...