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...while the Columbia applicants who received advance notification might have beat the system, Harvard’s method of notification was not similarly susceptible. Harvard College Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 wrote in an e-mail that Harvard uses USPS for all its domestic notifications...
...could deliver messages from academia at Harvard in a way that would ring true with them as ground-level executives.” An authority on manufacturing and planning, Thurston actively engaged his students and made use of the interactive format of the HBS case method, Williams said. “The combination of personal warmth, strong intellectual honesty, absence of self-centeredness, and the fact that he was interested in the students seemed to come through to them,” he said. Norman A. Berg, emeritus professor of business administration, walked to HBS each morning with Thurston from...
...case, it was. The e-mail problems that other Boalt applicants experienced will not change the way he views acceptances in the future, Hastrup said. In light of these electronic errors, the Harvard College admissions office will continue to use its tried-and-true method of sending admissions decisions by letter in addition to e-mail. The College admissions website even warns applicants that about 2 percent of e-mails will be undeliverable because of reasons such as expired accounts or mailbox filters. Regardless of the manner of delivery, “we will stand by the decision that...
...According to the list of top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 2005, released in January, Internet-related scams accounted for 46%, or 316,000, of all fraud gripes last year. And the percentage of Internet frauds with "wire transfer" as the reported payment method more than tripled from...
...What would it take from the Chinese for you to shelve the bill? We do not want to set a deadline, or prescribe a precise method [for currency revaluation]. We just have to feel that they believe this is the right course?this trip has helped convince us of that. And now the next important step, and only other step, would be for them to lay out a plan by which the currency would float after a reasonable period of time ... The jury is still out on that...