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...said. “It’s exciting because young people are stepping up and want to serve, but it’s frightening because our current system doesn’t always give people the opportunity to serve.” Kennedy School Professor Robert I. Rotberg agreed that the federal government would benefit from an increased number of talented students entering the public sector. “I hope people pay attention and they get developed,” Rotberg said of Ellwood’s suggestions. The number of 2009 Kennedy School graduates who plan...
...Kagan assuming the Deanship, she emerged as the leading candidate, along with Williston Professor of Law Robert H. Mnookin, well ahead of then-President Lawrence H. Summers’ decision. This time around, the field is more open, with a slate of seven internal candidates and, among those, three or four top candidates whom Faust is considering...
...recognition that the world is complex, formulas are imperfect, and humans are fallible.THE GREAT UNKNOWNWhile debates continue to rage over the length, severity, or causes of the financial crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in economics in 1997 for his work on the Black-Scholes model, ubiquitously used by traders to price options and determine...
...address also emphasized the importance of “moral courage,” a value Sebelius said was also lauded by one of her heroes, Robert F. Kennedy...
Honorary doctor of science degrees will also be given to AIDS researcher Anthony S. Fauci, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, and MIT Bioengineering Professor Robert Langer...