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...making mistakes—hooking up with your suitemate, say, or majoring in philosophy—with limited consequences. There’s good reason for this exceptionalism: If everything that happened in college were suddenly in the public domain, students would feel less free to take risks??although it’s debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition of “Fat-Bottomed Girls” to YouTube is the sort of risk schools want to encourage. Subjecting everyone involved in a student government scandal or newspaper plagiarism case to the same treatment...
...defiance of traditional theater aesthetics, “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” took a lot of risks??which on balance was quite admirable, especially for a student-written work. But the play’s spectacle of amusing incoherence was certainly not for everyone. At times the characters even seemed to acknowledge its radical sense of humor, explaining, “Anyone can say anything. You should...
...history—as part of our effort to make the HBS classroom experience second to none,” he wrote. Light acknowledged the objections that students had raised to reinstating optional disclosure—ranging from decreased cooperation to an aversion to taking academic risks??but he indicated that he did not expect those potential drawbacks to be as significant. He concluded from his discussions with HBS faculty, staff, and former students who had been at HBS before 1998 that “most believe the transition back to our original policy can be managed?...
...government, whose policy until last Thursday strictly warned American citizens against traveling to Israel, now “urges U.S. citizens to carefully weigh the necessity of their travel to Israel in light of the risks?? but does not completely discourage...
Collaboration. Confidence grows when people reach out to help others and work with them to achieve common goals. The knowledge that they can count on each other to provide support makes it easier to take risks??e.g., to speak up in class or start a new club. “Unselfish” was the term used most often for the 2002-2003 Connecticut team, which began the season ranked #15 and ended #1 as champions. Overly-arrogant “stars” feels they don’t need anyone else; but sometimes the team plays...