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...written statement, Smith said he “look[s] forward to speaking with the Economics faculty,” but today’s meeting could present the dean with the toughest audience he has faced in his young tenure...
...tied the defending national champions, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, 1-1, in double overtime. Looking ahead to the upcoming game and the rest of the Ivy League season, the Crimson will have to play strong and be focused. Harvard will need to play well in preparation for the toughest test of its young Ivy season, when it faces Brown Oct. 13. “We are just taking one game at a time,” Kerr said. “All these games are going to be difficult. We are just focusing on the Cornell game...
...Harvard’s attitude toward tenure is not uncommon in the Ivy league. In a 2004 article exploring tenure systems in the Ivies, the Journal of Higher Education pegged Harvard, Princeton and Yale as schools with the toughest tenure policies. Since then, Harvard and Yale have both undergone changes in their respective systems. For example, Yale recently rid itself of the “open search,“ a policy analogous to the senior search still followed at Harvard...
...Historically, Germany, Japan, and France would be my toughest competition. It’s more unfamiliar than the U.S. setting, because, one, I’ve never been on the world stage before and there in each country there’s a different style. Each person will be the best DJ in their country, so they could be bringing crazy stuff you’ve never seen before, so you’ve got to be ready for everything. In the U.S., you can plan more strategically. If I face this guy that’s kind of weaker...
That said, the charming billionaire is clear about why he gave Hermann full autonomy to run a business as if she, not he, owned it: "She is one of the toughest men of our group...