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Then he turns to the newest item on his national to-do list: energy independence. Grove teaches a strategy course at Stanford University, and last summer, as he was looking for new examples, he started to consider this: What would the U.S. look like if viewed as a company? Analyzing competitive forces has been routine at business schools ever since Harvard's Michael Porter fleshed out his original model in the 1980s. Grove put U.S. GDP at the center of a Porter-like model and concluded that our reliance on foreign oil (a key supplier for economic growth) poses...
...grants for more students is another step in the right direction.” In March 2006, Harvard eliminated the parental contribution for students from families making under $60,000 and significantly reduced the contribution from families in the $60,000 to $80,000 income bracket. Yale, Princeton and Stanford have implemented similar financial aid initiatives, each focused on either eliminating parental contribution or relieving student debt. Director of Financial Aid Sally C, Donahue said she viewed the recent changes at Columbia as part of a collective effort among the Ivy League schools to increase accessibility for low and middle...
...Business nabbed the number one spot ahead of the Tuck School at Dartmouth, which had topped three of the Journals’s past six annual rankings. HBS placed eighth when the Journal first debuted its rankings in 2001. According to the Journal, prestigious business schools like Harvard and Stanford did not rank in the top ten despite the schools’ academic prowess. According to the Journal, “academic quality isn’t the primary concern of most survey respondents.” “While recognizing the brainpower of their students and faculty, recruiters...
...completely. Harvard often compares itself to peer institutions—and Stanford, which boasts the third largest university endowment, beat Harvard’s investment return by 2.7 percentage points this past year. Yale—whose endowment is the second-largest among universities, after Harvard—hasn’t released its 2006 numbers yet. But Yale’s rate of returns has consistently outpaced Harvard’s over the past two decades...
...more eager to finish its non-conference season. The Crimson, in search of its first victory of the season, will find the going tough today at No. 24 Boston University (BU) (5-2-0). Coming off a 1-0 victory over No. 3 Santa Clara last week at the Stanford Invitational, the Terriers have confidence that they can handle a Harvard squad that lost its matchup against the Broncos 3-0 in the opening game of the season. However, this match provides an opportunity for the Harvard squad to see its progression from that first weekend. Success against BU would...