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...worth of horsing around at the sumptuous Home Ranch is the latest outdoor pursuit in management training. In today's corporate-training world, there are the old standbys like rock climbing, rope mazes and Dale Carnegie. But a wide variety of other programs have developed that purport to impart management wisdom: martial arts, golf (don't ask), rhythmic drumming (ditto), paintball and treasure hunts among them. Some trainers use improvisational comedy to supposedly unleash the inner Jay Leno in trainees, while other consultants bring along wild animals to scare off any doubts about promoting Smithers to GM in the Northeast...
...Relatives,” which fail to provide basic science literacy, will make the general science curriculum more relevant and useful to humanities and social science concentrators. Moreover, the committee is right to require that courses “teach key scientific concepts” and “impart an understanding of the methods and process of scientific research, discovery, and invention.” Nevertheless, such a philosophy is only as good as its application. For example, the report’s citation of Molecular and Cellular Biology 60, “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future...
...also gives students the chance to practice public service. Students write about, debate, and find solutions to the most pressing political issues of the day at the Harvard Political Review, the Harvard Political Union, and the IOP’s Policy Program, respectively. Students can also impart their passion for public service on others, be it by training Harvard employees to become citizens as a citizenship tutor or teaching Boston students about being an informed citizens in the CIVICS program. Beyond Boston, students raise awareness about politics among young people through the National Campaign for Civic Engagement, and they take...
...then determine which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy! Expos is a methods class; its aim is not to impart a corpus of knowledge to you. Different sections nevertheless vary in amounts of reading and requirements. Some classes emphasize image interpretation; predictably, those will entail less reading and consequently less work. Others are half-methods, half-material courses that require you to spend plenty of time in Widener (bring...
Next fall, Harvard will charge $30,275 a year to impart its brand of veritas and gravitas to students. Room and board are extra. And many of Harvard's Ivy brethren charge similar amounts...