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...year, when five European nations backed them up with an unprecedented $4 billion over 10 years to fund GAVI's work, it was all about leverage. At Davos, Bill Gates and Bono had tag-team meetings with Blair, Schröder and other leaders, using the example of one as peer pressure for the other. Bill remembers talking to Bono between meetings and telling him he wasn't sure Schröder would come around. Bono was undeterred. "I tend to be a little more realistic," Bill says. "He's always saying, 'Yeah, we can do this...
...years after its founding, HDS allowed women to enroll at the school for the first time. Though the school lagged behind many of its peer institutions in allowing females to matriculate, HDS has since pioneered the study of women in religion...
Almost 100 years after some of its peer institutions and 23 years after Yale Divinity School, women were allowed to enter HDS as students...
...sound advising program, therefore, is not to compress all advising responsibilities onto individual advisors. Instead, a multifaceted scheme should be developed in which different areas of advising are handled by those who know them best. An integral component of such a solution is the participation of well trained peer advisors. Prefects are currently prohibited from dispensing academic advice to freshmen, but this policy is senseless. As it stands, proctors serve as the academic advisors for first-years, but many of these proctors do not even study within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Freshmen would benefit far more from...
Harvard is the only business school that actively enforced a non-disclosure policy. The administrations at three of HBS’s top peer institutions—Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School—let their students decide whether they want to disclose their grades to recruiters...