Word: harvardness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard unveiled its plans to beautify the perimeter of the construction site that was slated for the Allston Science Complex at a meeting of the Harvard Construction Management Sub-Committee last night...
...landscape design, which the University hopes to complete by the end of June 2010, is intended to give the site a “more aesthetic” look, according to James Royce, a Stephen Stimson Associates landscape architect hired by Harvard for the project...
...project also includes the creation of more parking space to accommodate the new tenants that Harvard hopes to bring to its vacant properties in the neighborhood, addressing a concern Allston residents have had about the availability of parking after learning the University’s plans to fill its empty real estate holdings...
...language of George Akerlof, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who described the used-car market as having buyers and sellers with different amounts of information about the transaction to be made, the recruiting market is ridden with “adverse selection.” In the Harvard case, it is not hidden car qualities, but rather uncertain applicant motivations that force employers to bear all the risk of hiring a “lemon.” As a result, it is both the students and employers who face second-best outcomes in summer and job offers...
...misallocated from those who should ideally receive them, those most qualified and committed for a given job—a labor market failure. Conversely, opportunistic applicants are errors in selection against the interest of employers who want hires to remain at their company. Far more typical of the Harvard student, opportunistic interns intend to gather the experience and move on to a preferred job that is presently unavailable. This is largely why offering paid freshman and sophomore summer internships go against the interests of most employers under the present system; firms lose their human capital investments when trained interns leave...