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...would have asked to sit down with the Dean of the Medical School and have a conversation,” he says. “I think its fair to say there are ways to get things done in a constructive manner that will get less publicity, but will actually get the job done...
...Oath, a code of conduct written and publicized by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School this spring. By becoming a signatory, MBAs pledge, among other noble things, to “act with utmost integrity and pursue [their] work in an ethical manner.” As of yesterday, about 40 percent of the approximately 900 members in the HBS Class of 2009 had signed the online oath. But must MBAs really chose between greed and virtue...
...This does not mean a nationalist China is committed to what its own government has dubbed a “peaceful rise.” China’s dual-pronged espionage campaign remains menacing. First, Chinese hackers conduct extensive cyber-warfare. Second, China gathers human intelligence in a manner markedly different from the former Soviet Union. Whereas the KGB extracted sensitive information from a few carefully chosen assets, China’s Ministry of State Security uses a web of informers in businesses, educational institutions, and governments, many of whom probably don’t even consider their actions...
...that housing on campus will only be made available to a limited number of students “having good reason” to stay on campus. The arrested development of January programming may have been a reasonable decision given the current state of FAS finances, but the disorganized manner in which administrators handled this decision and their lack of transparency with students suggested that calendar reform was not well thought-out.Of course, Harvard’s budget cuts have affected every aspect of the University, and student life was no exception. Even though student opinion should by no means dictate...
...current form, as opposed to what it sees as the other possibility: a unified Korean peninsula that at minimum slouches toward the U.S., if it doesn't become an outright U.S. ally under Seoul's direction. Klingner says Beijing has feared a North Korean implosion for years, in the manner of East Germany, that would come with costs both economic (refugees coming across the Chinese border) as well as diplomatic (the loss of a buffer state in a region that, though stable, is inhabited by countries that really don't like one another much...