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...propensity to challenge convention is one of the things that differentiates a hedgie, and it's something that humans are not necessarily wired to do, says Jim Leitner, manager of the Falcon Family Fund. Leitner spoke of this phenomenon at the conference and in Inside the House of Money, Steven Drobny's collection of interviews with macro hedgies. "Humans in general are biased to look for confirmatory evidence," Leitner asserts in the book. "When someone is bullish on oil, they tend to pick out the pro-oil arguments in whatever they read. Very few people train themselves to look...
Gates, who would always address the class with a “high-pitched voice,” was taking the course because he was “looking for a challenge,” said Leitner, who is now the assistant dean for continuing education for information and technology...
...Henry H. Leitner, who was then in his first year as a graduate student at the Division of Applied Sciences, recalled that Gates—a sophomore at the time—was enrolled in one of his applied mathematics courses in the spring...
...generally would choose to work hard on the problems that he found most interesting or challenging, and tended to leave the rest for me to wrestle with,” recalled Leitner, who worked with Gates on class assignments...
...interview with Smith yesterday.In contrast to Faust—who has had minimal interaction with Harvard undergraduates as dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advance Studies—Smith has significant familiarity with the undergraduate experience. When the popular computer scientist received tenure in 2000, his colleague, Henry H. Leitner, remarked, “We need more people like Michael Smith. Undergraduates love him, his teaching evaluations are always among the very highest. Harvard did very well in this case.” He chairs the Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics Sports and participated this year in a review...