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...academia, the new dean’s leadership will extend far beyond the school’s campus.“The next dean needs to be someone who is willing to provide leadership to this school as well as to the business education community,” says Kirstein Professor of Human Relations Jay W. Lorsch. Lorsch notes that the new dean will also have to determine how HBS—the only business school that relies entirely on the case study method—can best stay in tune with the rapidly evolving business world...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; James Engell, Gurney professor of English literature; Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School; Duncan M. Kennedy, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School; Louis M. Kunkel, professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School; Jay W. Lorsch, Kirstein professor of human relations at Harvard Business School; Tom A. Rapoport, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School; Robert I. Rotberg, president of the World Peace Foundation and director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution; and Stephen M. Walt, academic...
...School of American Ballet had its start in 1933 with a legendary exchange between George Balanchine, then 28 and a Russian migr choreographer living by his wits, and Lincoln Kirstein, two years his junior and a rich American aesthete with billowing ambitions to further the arts in his country. He invited Balanchine to start a ballet troupe in the U.S. The choreographer replied, "But first a school." As always, Mr. B. was right; a company like the New York City Ballet could not exist with the sketchy training that was available here...
Youngsters who became stars, like Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland, flutter through these pages, but the book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...What’s clear to me is what [Summers’ comments on women in science] did was only light the fuse to a situation that already had a lot of explosives in it,” says Harvard Business School Kirstein Professor of Human Relation Jay W. Lorsch, who is an expert in leadership and organizational behavior. “It was just waiting for something to make it erupt, and that happened...