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...Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning?? is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...
...Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning??the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand the project to Boston later this year. In D.C., Ebrahim said he placed three of his graduate students in three different nonprofits: a meal...
...program to provide impoverished women in developing countries with business and management education. Goldman’s $100 million initiative, “10,000 Women,” will provide economic support for HBS’s own “Colloquium for Participant-Centered Learning??—a program that brings faculty from around the world to Cambridge to study HBS’s famous case method. Senior HBS lecturer Michael Chu, whose research focuses on the intersection of business and market mechanisms with low-income populations, described women as an “underutilized...
...felt like no one really cared about actually learning??they were just focused on beating everyone else and were worried about what the curve was going to be,” Younger says of her experience in Life Sciences 1b last spring. “I was really turned off by the whole environment...
...While pursuing his graduate studies, Chen became a six-time winner of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning??s award for teaching distinction. The prize is given to teaching fellows who receive more than a 4.5 on the CUE Guide’s five-point scale...