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...have long warned about the perils of any group of co-workers getting too comfortable with one another. A team of like-minded people sharing like-minded opinions behind a closed door - the dreaded groupthink - has produced some of history's worst ideas. (See Bay of Pigs, bundled mortgages, "Mission Accomplished," New Coke.) Better to bring in at least one new face or dissenting voice to shake things up and challenge a few assumptions. But how much shaking does it take? As it turns out, not much. According to a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin...
...human need than by economic imperative. No potentially life-saving technology invented at Harvard should go undeveloped or remain inaccessible for want of creative thinking on our part. As a recipient of government funding for research, Harvard is committed to fulfill its responsibility of public service to advance our mission by means of a vigorous and effective technology transfer program. In heading this program at Harvard’s Office of Technology Development, I have seen OTD become a leader in crafting and, more important, implementing creative strategies to effectively address these issues...
...Harvard’s objective to deliver socially beneficial outcomes to the public from discoveries made by its faculty is embodied in, and advanced by, OTD’s core mission. We actively foster innovation, identify appropriate industrial partners to develop new inventions made at Harvard, and negotiate license agreements that enable the translation of such inventions into new products in the hope of benefiting society. Every relevant invention made at Harvard is an opportunity to contribute to global health and well-being. We take very seriously our commitment to serve the public good...
...hard by the financial crisis, and it must make significant cuts in order to maintain the quality of its academics. The city council’s request that the university keep unnecessary employees while cutting back on the salaries of faculty, whose presence is more central to the educational mission of the university, is unreasonable. Harvard is first and foremost an educational institution; while providing jobs for people in the community is a worthy goal, its primary mission is education and research...
...agency won't say how much it's spending on the ad campaign, but CIA spokesman George Little told TIME via e-mail, "We continue to seek highly qualified candidates to support the mission of America's premier intelligence agency." (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...