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...Harvard program, which has been under construction for several decades, was finally cemented last year. At one point Harvard, like many other established universities, struggled to accept film as a credible academic pursuit. Now, however, the university officially recognizes the value of what Timothy Corrigan, the University of Pennsylvania??s Director of Cinema Studies, calls in an e-mail “a central cultural and intellectual force in society.” The formerly avant-garde field is evolving into a downright standard presence at major schools, and the departments boast distinguished faculty, modern facilities, and filled...
...image and to its academics.Over the past seven years, many concerns have been raised about the policy. Anecdotal evidence from professors and administrators has supported the notion that students are simply taking academics less seriously. These anecdotes have been proven at other schools. At the University of Pennsylvania??s Wharton School, another B-School that doesn’t allow grade release, undergrads taking cross-registered classes routinely outperform MBA candidates. Were the same perception about HBS to take hold among recruiters, HBS’s reputation (and the opportunities of its students) would be diminished.A no-release...
...extracurricular activities, rather than gaining general management skills,” he added.HBS is not the only top business school reexamining its grade disclosure policy. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania??s Wharton School—the three other peer schools that have a non-disclosure policy—are also reviewing to what extent students should be allowed to show potential employers their grades. Ruback, who is also a senior associate dean at HBS and Smith Professor of Corporate...
...owned by everyone, then does that mean I am like everyone, and thus that I am nothing as an individual? In recent weeks, fashionistas the world over have had to contend with this identity-shattering dilemma.During the semi-controversy surrounding the Women’s & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania??s recent “girl-cott” of certain Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts, the sentiment heard at Harvard was less of moral outrage and more of ridicule—mocking the stupidity of wearing such shirts in the first place.But as students outside the Science Center...
When Howie Day performs at the University of Pennsylvania??s (UPenn) fall concert this year, his tour’s corporate sponsor, Verizon Wireless, will save UPenn thousands of dollars and ease the logistical burden of putting on a large-scale concert, according to Sam Huntington, co-chair of the concert division of UPenn’s Social Planning and Events Commission...