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...important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership that denied the role of HIV in causing AIDS; similarly, the World Health Organization’s attempts to eradicate polio have run into ethnic and religious barriers in northern Nigeria and parts of India. Thus biological discovery and technology development can be stymied if not coupled with an understanding...

Author: By Steven E. Hyman | Title: Even in Challenging Times Harvard Must Move Ahead | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Jackson, the acting dean, has garnered praise from his colleagues on the faculty for his leadership over the future of the school’s budgetary priorities at a tenuous time, and as a result, his stock has risen as a candidate for Dean...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Dean Search Narrows to Four | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...history, such as Napoleon, Stalin, and Deng Hsiao Ping were little over five feet tall. Physical traits such as physique, intellectual traits such as IQ, and personality traits such as extroversion have been extensively examined by researchers, but with poor explanatory results. Tests have shown there is no leadership gene. While studies might find a certain trait to be significant, there always seems to be considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye | Title: Nature and Nurture in Leadership | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...individual leaders” in a speech at the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. After beginning his speech on a comedic note, Petraeus encouraged “what must be the smartest new members of our military” to make use of the leadership skills they had developed through their training. He also implored them to follow “five critical admonitions”: “lead by example,” “be humble,” “don’t hesitate to make decisions...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Petraeus Speaks to ROTC Grads | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Gorton—a financial economist at Yale—to use quantitative models to project the worst case scenario for the company’s balance sheet.Using historical data, the models predicted a rosy future not too-unlike the recent, prosperous past, giving AIG’s leadership confidence in entering uncharted markets.But by last September, one of AIG’s gambles had all but destroyed the institution—once the 18th largest public company in the world. To prevent an abrupt and potentially catastrophic collapse, AIG was forced to take a $182.5 billion lifeline from...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Post-Crisis Economics | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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