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...tour of college campuses in search of Charlotte Simmons. "I went to fraternity parties," he recalls. "Very few of the students had any idea who I was. I was so old, and I always wore a necktie--I must have seemed somewhat odd to them." He trekked from Stanford to Ann Arbor, from Chapel Hill to the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The most valuable things were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn't see any," he adds hastily. What he did see was a kind of boot camp where teenagers are initiated into the social...
...This is not a case of whoever has the most APs wins," insists Stanford director of undergraduate admissions Anna Marie Porras. But as kids like Adam Capulong and Nayla Scaramello know, it certainly doesn't hurt. This fall 424 students at McNair Academic signed up for AP courses. That's three-quarters of the student body...
...mistakes do not lead to improvement when management passes the buck. Not only does the blame game increase the likelihood that companies will repeat the error, it can also turn off investors. A recent study by the Stanford Business School showed that the stocks of firms that publicly accepted responsibility for a down year instead of blaming external, uncontrollable forces tended to do better the following year. Indeed, the truest test of management may be its response to the challenges of failure--its ability to learn from its own or its peers' mistakes and take appropriate action. With that...
...impetus for the Academy, according to Director Shengli Feng, who is also the director of the Chinese Language Program at Harvard, was that previously, students who wanted to study in China had to rely on other universities’ programs. Princeton and Stanford, for example, both have well-established study abroad programs in China...
...Summers is particularly timely because tensions between Summers and the African and African-American Studies Department resurfaced recently when two Harvard Af-Am professors, Lawrence Bobo and his wife Marcyliena Morgan, announced they will leave Harvard at the end of the fall semester to take up tenured positions at Stanford. Their departure has been attributed by colleagues to the fact that Summers denied Morgan tenure at Harvard this past summer...