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...would anybody run a business like that? If you follow conventional wisdom, Apple is doing it all wrong. Try to do everything at once, and you won't do anything well. Worse, the way Apple operates is not how you're supposed to foster innovation, or not in the U.S., anyway. Under the traditional, capitalist, Adam Smithian model, new and better things arise as a result of freedom and open competition, but Apple is essentially operating its own closed miniature techno-economy. What is this, Soviet Russia? Why not license Mac OS X to Dell, see what hardware it comes...
...floor when a TF speaks a clear and coherent sentence in English, you know your expectations have fallen unreasonably low for what your $40,000/year is supposedly buying. Meanwhile, the humanities TF can usually speak English, but uses what verbal abilities they possess mostly to muse such pearls of wisdom as, “Great idea,” “Wow, that’s an excellent point,” and “Hmm, I don’t know…what do you think?” I once had a TF who asked...
...reality of Harvard life hit me with the subtlety of Memorial Church’s daily 8:45 a.m. wake-up call, a trip off-campus suddenly seemed ludicrous.When it comes to improving the state of mind of Harvard’s notoriously stressed-out student body, conventional wisdom is simple. A pricey cocktail of campus life initiatives geared at making it easy for Harvard students to unwind here in Cambridge will cure our social woes. Until a few weeks ago, I would have readily agreed. In mid-September, however, a weekend in the woods changed my mind completely.Last month...
...five classes: mathematical and physical sciences; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities and arts; and public affairs, business, and administration. Members work together to study issues of contemporary importance through multidisciplinary analysis. The Academy’s seal depicts Minerva, Roman goddess of victory in war and wisdom, a rising sun, and the motto “Sub Libertate Florent.” Established during the Revolutionary War, the Academy was founded to represent some of the brightest minds and hopes of a new country, as well as the belief that the arts and sciences flourish under freedom. Other 2005 fellows...
...wiser, more important man, but it also couldn’t go to a kinder and more generous man.” Last year, the KSG created an award in Schelling’s name to “honor people who use reason, exceptional wisdom, and evidence to understand and solve public problems,” Ellwood said in a May press release. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...