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...financial crisis has no doubt played a role in this jump," says Scott Fenn, senior managing director for policy at Proxy Governance. "There's a greater willingness on the part of big institutions to hold boards accountable and to vote against directors when they perceive a problem at companies...
...hesitancy makes sense. For a handful of chosen ones to walk among us with a greater potential to create things of worth doesn’t mesh terribly well with our country’s democratic values, after all. New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell tapped into just this everyman conception of genius in last year’s bestselling pop science book, “Outliers.” Reaching the top levels of a chosen field, he explained, simply requires a combination of hard work and luck—with a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice, anyone...
Because Wellesley contracts a private company to run their food services, the university saves on overhead costs such as health and benefits packages for chefs and culinary administrators. Perry said that she believes this gives the school greater budgetary flexibility...
...region claimed 14 percent of students, while almost half of all students studied in the United States and Western Europe. In 2007, nearly a third of university students could be found in East Asia and the Pacific compared with 23 percent in Western nations. Despite the lower price and greater convenience of schools in his native Singapore, Colin Teo ’12 said he’s glad he decided to come to the U.S. “I don’t think I would have gotten a worse education in Singapore than at Harvard, but I learn...
Allan Powell, the Harvard Coop’s corporate general manager, expressed greater reservations about the technology...