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...User Innovation The rapid-fire innovation we're seeing around Twitter is not new, of course. Facebook, whose audience is still several times as large as Twitter's, went from being a way to scope out the most attractive college freshmen to the Social Operating System of the Internet, supporting a vast ecosystem of new applications created by major media companies, individual hackers, game creators, political groups and charities. The Apple iPhone's long-term competitive advantage may well prove to be the more than 15,000 new applications that have been developed for the device, expanding its functionality...
...fortunate to have such generous alumni, but we’re very much in unprecedented territory.”DONOR APPRECIATIONFaust often emphasizes that Harvard is no longer in a position to think as a university with a $36.9 billion endowment, and donors acknowledge that reducing the scope of University activities and ambitions to those that a $24 billion endowment can support is not easy. Most give Faust credit for coping with the unprecedented fiscal challenges thus far. Most praise her transparency and relatively frequent updates on University budget planning—“People are grateful...
...illustrated by the sprawling nature of the 112-page report and its $1 billion price tag, the House renewal initiative is ambitious both in its scope and its bottom line...
...Renewal Report had already foreshadowed the possibility of reducing the scope of early-morning meal offerings...
...Allston was to ensure the continued strength of the sciences at Harvard, which he said would soon suffer from a crippling insufficiency of space. Alyssa A. Goodman, an astronomy professor who served on the Provost’s Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says. “But everyone was told, ‘We want to know what you would do if you didn’t have to worry...