Word: insular
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...other words, while pop music has fans among the youth, classical only has practitioners, which renders the scene rather insular and arguably stagnant...
However, there is a danger in just having a general education curriculum made up of distributional requirements. Students may neglect large swaths of subjects and focus on a fairly insular section in one of the general areas. This is hopefully where Harvard College Courses will be effective. These courses will serve to fill in some of the educational holes left by the distribution requirements by surveying large academic domains. In other words, if a student only takes classes on volcanoes to fulfill his or her science requirements, a Harvard College Course will ideally give him or her a broader overview...
...group for top financial positions demonstrates otherwise. It is difficult for qualified women and minorities to obtain high-powered positions in part because private equity—the field in which the Harvard Management Company president and board members are likely to come from—is a notoriously insular field (which usually does not include minorities or women). Hopefully recent events have since forced Summers to recognize that race and gender still play large roles in the way society is shaped...
...Asian executive suite is infamous for being clubby, insular and resistant to outsiders, especially foreigners. But urgent commercial realities can alter the most ingrained management mind-set. There's been a recent series of surprising changes at the top of well-known regional companies. It's too soon to call it a trend, but there appears to be greater willingness to shake up corporate habits by bringing in outsiders, at least among a handful of companies that compete in fast-moving global markets...
...taken as a whole, Japan Inc. remains one of the most insular corporate cultures on earth. Over the past 15 years, plenty of Western management practices, investors and executives have been tried, with mixed results. For every Ghosn, who is now a national hero for saving Nissan, there is a Rolf Eckrodt, the DaimlerChrysler executive who failed to turn around Mitsubishi Motors. For every Ripplewood Holdings, the U.S. investment firm that bought out and successfully relaunched the bankrupt Long-Term Credit Bank as Shinsei Bank, there is a Carrefour, the French retailer that is withdrawing from the country after just...