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...academic mission. Recently, the administration of HBS has expressed interest in making it “optional” for students to release their grades. This interest must not blossom into policy. Making grade release optional will not solve any of HBS's current problems with academic rigor. Moreover, the administration should be censured for trying to ram through this change without the input of HBS students...
...Critics of HBS and other schools with the same practice have questioned the schools’ academic rigor, saying that business school classes mean nothing without grade accountability. From their perspective, the cooperative environment that the no-release policy fosters is outweighed by its detrimental effects on academic motivation and excellence. That said it’s hard to see how releasing grades to employers would fix HBS’s problems. Since 65 to 75 percent of the school gets a grade of “II,” and only the bottom ten percent a legitimately...
...enhance performance.”Akram Zaman, who is co-president of the HBS Student Association’s Executive Committee, said that the organization had not yet taken a stance on the issue, but noted that there is a perception that “general academic motivation and rigor has gone down” among HBS students.“The consensus is that people are valuing social, networking, and extracurricular activities, rather than gaining general management skills,” he added.HBS is not the only top business school reexamining its grade disclosure policy. Stanford?...
...laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for the work. Slamming his topology textbooks shut forever, Wolff went off to study music composition under Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner ’61. “It was the rigor of the musical training that attracted me [to composition],” Wolff says in a phone interview, citing Kirchner’s seminars as a highlight of his undergraduate career. But Wolff found the student-led recitals even more stimulating, and decided his true passion lay in performance. Wolff trekked to Paris...
...Harvard undergraduates indicate stress as an impediment to performance, both academic and otherwise. From the varsity men and women’s squash team to the varsity men and women’s crew team, athletes on campus are finding that yoga offers a needed break from the rigor of day-to-day campus life. Among the first to include yoga as part of their program, the Harvard men and women’s squash teams require weekly hour-long yoga sessions on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Led by Head Coach Satinder Bajwa and Assistant Coach Mohammed Ayaz...