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...Cable TV also has free, night-on-the-couch appeal for the cash-strapped, plus another advantage. The research firm SNL Kagan says cable TV advertising will have grown an impressive 10.7% by the end of 2008, as channels like ESPN and Lifetime continue siphoning viewers away from broadcast TV. Next year cable ad revenues will grow only 4.7%, Kagan predicts, because of the recession. But when squeezed companies slash their advertising budgets, cable has the cushion of a second revenue stream - about 50% of its cash comes from affiliate fees paid by cable operators...
...While legal scholarship has become less ideological and more interdisciplinary, making it easier to build consensus among the faculty, Elhauge credits Kagan with breaking the political deadlock in lateral hiring, just as her predecessor, Robert C. Clark, did when it came to the hiring of assistant professors...
...School’s recent hiring spree comes as part of an effort to decrease class sizes and the student-faculty ratio, and to raise the level of scholarship in fields outside corporate law and other traditionally strong areas. In an interview last spring, Kagan said that she hoped to increase the size of the Law School’s faculty to over 100, from the 90 faculty members at the time. Today, the faculty stands at 101 full-time professors...
...Before Kagan assumed the deanship of the Law School in 2003, most faculty members were hired as assistant professors, and the majority of junior faculty would eventually receive tenures offers. In the two decades preceding Kagan, Harvard made only 18 lateral hires. The lack of poaching resulted from the fact that the faculty was often divided over prospective appointments, according to Einer R. Elhauge ’82, a professor at the Law School. “It was more conflicted than now—I think we had a harder time agreeing,” said Elhauge, citing both...
...spectrum, including the controversial former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jack L. Goldsmith, who has drawn fire for his work in formulating Bush administration policies regarding the treatment of enemy combatants. Most importantly, by “eliminating the sense of scarcity” when it came to hiring professors, Kagan reduced the pressure to select the “best possible” candidate every time the faculty voted on a potential lateral offer. Since professors now trust that a number of hires will be made, there is less of a need to oppose any individual professor...