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Just one year before, the Faculty had pounded Summers with a vote of no confidence. The vote was devastating for the president. In the weeks that followed, even some of his closest friends would tell him his presidency was lost and that the only option was resignation, according to a person close to Summers...
...random changes to a system rather than analyzing its operation—is irrational and usually makes it run worse. Making changes that affect people’s lives without considering the consequences is unethical leadership.An institution is community property, and if the owners want it changed, they should tell the community how and why. On this point a university is different from a razor blade company. Harvard can’t bottle up the truth; misrepresentations are too easily exposed. So management is better off being direct and transparent with the stakeholders. At Harvard, the alumni-elected Board...
Dear Nick,So you made it through another four years, through Harvard Law and the presidential campaign. Some people will probably tell you that’s something to be proud of. It is, but only for about ten minutes. Anybody else with your skills and opportunities would have done the same, and quite a few people would have done it better.You’re a lucky person to be where you are, and you don’t deserve it any more than anybody else on this planet. However, now that you have been given so much...
...money will not be invested in companies or banks that do business with South Africa. Write Harvard and explain that, as women students, you felt cheated by the shortage of women professors, and that you will contribute to the University only when the situation is alleviated. Write Harvard and tell them that you think gay students deserve the same assurances as any other vulnerable minority, and that your money will stay in the bank or be given to some other worthy cause until those assurances are made. Write to Harvard and say you love this school and its history...
...After grabbing a seat, Kelley begins to tell how he came to live in the city he loves, and the problems he fears lie in its future...