Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The peculiarity of the academic profession is that it has no precise gauge for measuring success. Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's...
Roger Birk, chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., stands as tall on the job as in his profession. Birk presides over the largest U.S. brokerage house from a brown walnut stand-up desk that he uses for everything from reading mail to signing multimillion-dollar deals. He acquired the desk ten...
...simple reason that the work is unchallenging compared to most full practices face it," she says, "students are boring. They get mono, they get colds. Once in a great while they get hepatitis. They're mostly in pretty good health, and if you want to hone your professional skills and keep abreast of the profession, you just won't want to work there Harvard has somewhat less trouble than most in attracting good physicians in recent years, McKenna adds because of the increasingly varied community it serves...
During his 46 years as an economics professor, George Stigler, 71, developed a reputation as an entertaining lecturer and a tough grader. Also, along the way, he came to be regarded as perhaps his profession's most insightful student of the effects of government regulations on industrial organizations and...
LIBRIE CLAIMS Weinstein's interest in comedy goes back over a decade when local television began to show Monty Python reruns. "He was hooked by those," says Librie, "and then it was people like George Carlin and Danger field." At Stuyvesant, Weinstein, Librie and Harris produced a humor magazine called...