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...addition to working with students at Hillel, Steinberg also co-teaches the course “Moral Leadership: Self, Other, and Action” at the Harvard Kennedy School and serves on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage Foundation...
...secondary schools they have built in South Africa and Malawi respectively; grassroots activists assert that, in building such western-style schools, both women fall short of maximizing their potential for change. Unsurprisingly, celebrities and corporations capable of undertaking large-scale projects such as these “leadership academies” turn up their noses at the more localized efforts of these same grass-roots critics. Such antagonism is at once unnecessary and counter-productive. Each type of school affects a very different, though equally necessary, kind of change...
Schools like Oprah’s Leadership Academy of South Africa operate on a top-down theory of change. They equip their graduates to act on the national and even international stage by guaranteeing tertiary education. In short, they prepare their students to be extraordinary. Oprah communicates such a mission to every viewer of her website before they can even click on the “mission” tab. The following series of questions greets every viewer of the school’s website: “How many Rosa Parks or Marie Curies have we lost to poverty...
...Virtually every issue raised by this report about endowment management practices has been addressed and continue to be addressed by the current leadership team at the Harvard Management Corporation,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Harvard’s large and positive economic impact to the region is well documented, and we consider it an important outcome of fulfilling our teaching and research mission...
...pursuit of the highest standards at Harvard Law School during her tenure as dean, Elena Kagan gained a reputation for her effective leadership and assertive management style...