Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, since all first-year students take the same courses at the same time, an effort to achieve parity between the 90-student sections results. Digressing too far from the planned curriculum means that one section will fall behind the others; and as a result, the flexibility of course material is minimal...
...their counterparts elsewhere is by design. While the business schools of Chicago and Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University may train their accounting students to pass the Certified Public Accountant exam and marketing students to be consultants, the stated purpose of the B-School is to train managers. As a result, Harvard MBA's don't necessarily know all the intricacies of such financial operations; but they can efficiently oversee those...
...result of the gap between Harvard's predominantly case-based curriculum and those of other major business schools, B-School doctoral students often find that their alma mater is the only option for a career in business academia. Many B-School professors completed their doctoral study at Harvard; but at other schools, fewer Harvard MBA's join the faculty ranks. Harvard students' excellence in case research is unquestioned, say other business school professors, but their potential for scholarship in a non-case atmosphere is limited...
That Sunday night there was a public party in Mather House, to which I had invited a few friends from home. One of my friends, in fact, had been hired to dee-jay the party. As a result, for much of the evening, he and most of my other friends were clustered in a section of the room physically detached from the dance floor. My friends, with one exception, are in their early 20s. The exception was the kid brother of two of my friends, a boy still in high school...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...