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...financial uncertainty as the “point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...
...born than about what you have learned and what you do as part of a group. Nature and nurture intertwine, but nurture is much more important in the modern world than the heroic paradigm gives it credit for. Rather than think of your fellow graduates in terms of a particular type of heroic individual—male or female—look instead for indications that they (and you) have developed the judgment to broaden your bandwidth and cope with the wide range of new situations you are bound to encounter. That contextual intelligence will be the key to effective...
...around $1 billion. To this day, that sum has been funded entirely through debt, according to Shore, and the University has no current intentions to refinance its debt for the project.While some amount of debt financing is typical for construction projects, the University’s obligations for this particular project are considered to be extremely high—though Harvard’s large endowment and high returns have traditionally allowed it to borrow heavily.“One hundred percent debt financing is very aggressive both on the part of the developer and the lender...
...news article "Students Feel the Pinch" incorrectly implied that the fact that a smaller number of student tutors were hired at the Writing Center resulted from a reduction in the Center's budget. In fact, the reduction in new hires only reflected a smaller number of tutors graduating that particular year, according to Writing Center Director Jane Rosenzweig, who said there are no plans to reduce the budget for tutors at the Writing Center...
...example about who Lawrence H. Summer’s replacement as university president should have been, despite the fact that virtually all of the candidates were publicly known and had been profiled extensively in the media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate...