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...will include demands and risks that many candidates among the ranks of traditional recruits--current and retired top executives, say--aren't willing to accept. Congress, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ all answered calls for reform last year with their respective rule changes. The most substantial changes involve audit committees and outside directors (those without significant financial or family relationships to a company). To help avoid an Enron-like scenario, in which an audit committee doesn't adequately vet auditors' reports, the chairman of that committee must be a financial expert: either a CFO of a public company...
Thomas J. Scaramellino ’04 is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House. He is the president of The Harvard Coalition for Drug Policy Reform...
...Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, since he began teaching the class in 1984, to use Harvard’s only introductory economics course as a forum to vent his personal views. Given students growing frustration, and the current review of the Core Curriculum, the administration must reform Ec10...
...after receiving a little more than a dozen student complaints that the he was disorganized and confusing. Hart should at least consider changes to Ec10, given that nearly two decades of student discontent has now culminated in the formation of a sizable organized group of students seeking reform. A biased professor is no better than a confusing professor; both impart a distorted view of the subject matter...
...Which they are beginning to do. Professor Schor, who has come to campus to speak about Ec10 more than once, noted at her most recent appearance that the crowd present was the biggest she had seen yet. Since then, SHARE has been meeting regularly to discuss how to reform Ec10. All students who have taken or are presently taking the course should contact Hart with their concerns about Ec10, reply to Dean Gross’ call for feedback on the Core Curriculum, or join in SHARE’s efforts. At this critical moment, when heightened attention is being focused...