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Fellow Harvard undergraduate, what I’m about to tell you may not be the first thing on your mind right now. In all likelihood, you’re sitting in some dining hall, worrying about things like final exams, the split presidency of the Undergraduate Council, how Ryan is going out with Seth’s half-aunt, and whether arson would be a good way to “prank” the Yale Bowl...
...that often defines the architecture game is so pronounced that Taniguchi initially ruled himself out of the high-profile contest to refashion MOMA. He had never participated in a competition, and he was in no hurry to start. "I prefer to design for clients, on projects with a high likelihood of getting built," he says, "not in hypothetical exercises against other architects...
...fairly odd coming from a man who asked on several occasions not to be written about, insisting that it was the players who were important, even though his own name has become interchangeable with Crimson basketball over the past decade. After all, this is the man who in all likelihood will become the all-time winningest and longest-tenured coach at Harvard, and has guided the Crimson to some of its most successful seasons in the squad’s history. And though he may not think much of such a record, others have certainly noticed...
...best, surveys are imprecise guides for estimating opinions, and we see numerous factors which may have inflated student responses, providing HUDS with an inaccurate assessment. First, we see a strong likelihood of sample bias. The survey, which was conducted online in mid-October, received its highest response rate from Quincy House, with 59.8 percent of student residents participating. And, while Quincy residents should certainly be applauded for their high voter turnout, there’s good reason to believe it wasn’t Quincy’s delectable victuals that inspired such survey enthusiasm. More likely, the House?...
...mistakes do not lead to improvement when management passes the buck. Not only does the blame game increase the likelihood that companies will repeat the error, it can also turn off investors. A recent study by the Stanford Business School showed that the stocks of firms that publicly accepted responsibility for a down year instead of blaming external, uncontrollable forces tended to do better the following year. Indeed, the truest test of management may be its response to the challenges of failure--its ability to learn from its own or its peers' mistakes and take appropriate action. With that...