Word: inertia
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...this mindset can encourage us to ignore. Emerson eschews involvement with institutions and traditions because they limit the individual’s ability to act freely. On the Harvard campus, this mindset can translate into an aversion for University politics, though not without good reason. The combination of institutional inertia and a decision-making process that outlasts an undergraduate career can lead to understandable frustration. Additionally, students are often left out when it comes to decision-making, and when advisory committees or town hall meetings are assembled, their recommendations are frequently ignored. The consequence is that many potential advocates...
...straight lines, changing little as the years tick on and as it loses ground to more agile institutions which constantly innovate and reinvent themselves. If Harvard is to navigate the serpentine channel that lies ahead and still remain at the forefront of higher education, it must overcome its overwhelming inertia. But the course is difficult, and will require a bold, visionary, and audacious helmsman to chart.For that role we turn to a small crew of 11 who will steer Harvard into the future—Interim President Derek C. Bok, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...While the report certainly has its shortcomings, those can only be addressed when serious debate begins. Thus far, it hasn’t. While the Faculty has made progress in terms of expanding the restrictive course offerings of the Core for next year, there has been far too much inertia with respect to discussing necessary, more sweeping reforms.When the Faculty finally got around to discussing the curricular review in April, it managed only to address the issues of secondary fields (or minors) and delaying concentration choice. Whlie we fear that both these initiatives compromise the better aspects of a Harvard...
...Ghose of the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans says many have taken note of medical outsourcing but are scared off by the regulatory and legal uncertainties. Aaditya Mattoo, a World Bank economist who has published a study on the potential of medical outsourcing, suspects that pure institutional inertia has something to do with the lack of interest...
...bombers and aircraft carriers. However clean his logic, getting the generals to give up their gadgets was turning out to be much dirtier work. "This is a very large organization," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "and as with any ship, there's a lot of inertia that won't allow you to turn it 10 degrees. You need energetic people to make that happen." But one man was no match for the nation's four military services. Rumsfeld found he could not make a move without its being leaked to the newspapers, and pretty soon...