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...team, launching the career path she has followed ever since. Earle, who now does consulting work in “green” technology, says he is still impressed by his wife’s ambition and unique commitment to her career.“We started dating our second year of graduate school...and we said, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ And she said she wanted to be a CIO of a major university,” Earle recalls. “I didn’t even...
...MBAs so concerned with increasing their personal wealth that they ignore ethics and their responsibilities to society?” So asks the introduction to the MBA Oath, a code of conduct written and publicized by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School this spring. By becoming a signatory, MBAs pledge, among other noble things, to “act with utmost integrity and pursue [their] work in an ethical manner.” As of yesterday, about 40 percent of the approximately 900 members in the HBS Class of 2009 had signed the online oath...
...renewal process, announced slightly over a year ago, is set to occur in three stages: the first, culminating in the Renewal Report, highlighted areas of House life requiring improvement; the second, now underway, will develop renovation blueprints; and the third will encompass construction—currently slated to begin...
...we’d even be talking about this if we didn’t have some pretty extraordinary events in the economy,” says Joshua D. Coval, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. “It’s pretty easy to second-guess these decisions...but basically, I think all of those were reasonable things to do in normal or even mildly unusual circumstances.”John P. Huchra, former vice provost for research policy, cites bad luck as the source of Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire...
...explained at an FAS faculty meeting about the “three buckets” and the need to set priorities in everything we do. In the first and smallest bucket go our highest priorities, those things so important we might need to increase spending on them. In the second medium-sized bucket go things central to the core mission of FAS that cannot be reduced. In the third and largest bucket is everything else, and much of it will have...