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...flip side: many CEOs in particular are not disposed to listen to someone they don't consider a peer. "There's still a pecking order in the boardroom," says the Council of Institutional Investors' Teslik. It will be up to new directors to breach that barrier. Munoz, for his part, says he would not join any board that seemed resistant to change. "It's not that difficult to tell whether someone is sincere about wanting to include you in the decision-making process," he says...
...potentially confusing, I took solace in my study group. My two compatriots helped improve my understanding of the material and made me laugh. Some of the most valuable resources that Harvard offers its students are one another. Economists like Gordon C. Winston at Williams College have written about peer effects in higher education. These economists like to compare colleges to firms, with students as consumers of an education. But unlike most firms, students are also the inputs that create the education we all consume. While your New Balance running shoes are not more comfortable, durable or attractive because your roommate...
...This peer effect theory is often used to explain the existence of large merit scholarships and why Harvard is willing to spend so much more per student than we pay in tuition. Every undergraduate is worth something to the students around him. The free rides that some highly-qualified students get at state schools is a signifier of their value to their peers. National merit scholars’ tuition is waived at some schools because they raise the value of the education that paying students receive. If the difference between per-student spending and tuition is a measure of peer...
...found that in families who shared a bed, the children later rated themselves as more independent and loving than children who had slept alone," says Maria Goodavage, co-author of Good Nights, a primer on the safe and healthy family bed. "Those kids were also less prone to peer pressure." Although many parents worry that they might roll over onto a sleeping baby, Goodavage says this is rare and usually happens only if a parent is drunk or taking medications...
...poses a special challenge for scientists. Mental disorders play out in a 3-lb. universe that is largely inaccessible without drastic--and extremely risky--surgery. At least it was until the 1970s, when the first crude pictures of the living brain were taken. Today researchers can peer into that universe with a variety of scanning technologies that capture the brain in action and send back beautifully detailed images that are the next best thing to being there...