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...parent company, EADS, do indeed have a wiring problem - but it's one that has afflicted the companies' management structure as much as the guts of the planes themselves. Airbus, a four-nation consortium backed by millions of euros of taxpayers' money, was once hailed as a model of European industrial cooperation. In fact, its structure, which distributes management and blue-collar jobs among its various state and private owners, has turned Airbus into a nightmare of corporate governance. It has become an enterprise in which political considerations carry more weight than commercial ones, where horse-trading trumps industrial efficiency...
...market economics, and the administration of Larry Summers.” The Harvard Disorientation Guide is not the first of its kind in higher education. Similar publications exist at other universities, such as Duke and Columbia, whose own “Disorientation Guide” was used as a model for Harvard’s, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, another one of the editors. The idea to produce a Harvard Disorientation Guide has been floating around for a number of years, said guide editor Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who is also...
Harvard is also beholden to tradition. For instance, whereas most Universities have a larger board of directors, many of whom are elected, Harvard continues to use a model conceived of in 1650: a seven-member, self-selecting, and secretive corporation. Other traditions—like final clubs, the house system, and shopping period—apply less to University governance, bust are still part of the zeitgeist of the school that need to be understood before policy is made. These traditions also act as obstacles and create a tremendous amount of inertia. A new president needs to understand them...
...Since the scientists who review the submitted papers review them anonymously, there is little accountability—these gatekeepers, some think, have far too much power over the progress of science. For these reasons, some in the scientific community have proposed switching to open-publication, online journals. In one model, used by the soon-to-launch online journal of the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), scientists will be able to publish their papers online for a fee after only nominal editing by the journal’s editors. The review process would take place online and post-publication...
...sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube’s offer to go watch the 1973 blaxploitation classic “‘Black Caesar’ back at the crib.” In his verse, Kane extols Spike Lee as a model of how the black community can “make our own movies,” instead of being reduced to playing “butlers, maids, slaves and hoes” in Hollywood films. He disparages the success of films like “Driving Miss Daisie...