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Watching his colleagues struggle down a narrowing path, Prather says he is certain his decision was the right...
Alumni like Donald M. Prather, who left Harvard in 2005 with a Ph.D. in genetics, have been forced to seek jobs with higher pay and better prospects outside the ivory tower...
...twenty years ago, I...would have ended up in academics,” says Prather, who instead took a job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “But with a family—I already had one kid and another on the way—I couldn’t. Not in the current job market...
...It’s a hard question especially for a place like Harvard,” Prather says. “Their goal is still academics, but I just think they’re going to have to gradually introduce more real-world, industry, and business applications...
...Prather had a similar experience, leafing through career services materials while his faculty mentor, whom he described as “a wonderful, old-school Harvard researcher,” offered little guidance off the academic road...