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...position at Harvard two years ago, before the financial crisis and FAS constraints on new hires, Stock said. Melitz said he waited to accept the offer in part because of family considerations. His decision to leave Princeton to join the Harvard economics department highlights the rivalry between the two departments??two of the best in the nation. “Obviously this is going to tilt the scale somewhat,” said economics Professor Elhanan Helpman, who also specializes in international trade. “They took him from us, so we are entitled to take...
...While new acquisitions may alleviate some stress on departments?? cramped quarters, student social space will remain sparse...
...organization,” Holt said. “Anybody can throw bodies at a problem, but it takes some skills and experience to know how many bodies you need.” Economics faculty assistant Trina Ott said the administration should have placed specific budgetary constraints on departments??instead of halting staff hiring across the FAS—to allow them to determine how they can operate most efficiently. At the last Faculty meeting, Smith asked professors to consider how they could cut 10 to 15 percent of their departmental budgets in anticipation of a FAS budget...
...intend to resume searches once the financial situation turns around. At that time, we plan to allow departments to proceed with their original searches or to switch those searches to new fields, so long as they align with the departments?? academic plans. Thus, it is imperative that we continue with the academic planning process...
Speaking at an unusually crowded meeting of the full Faculty, Smith used a slide with a picture of three buckets to illustrate departments?? need to prioritize their budgetary desires. Two small buckets represented programs that would suffer little, or even not at all, from the financial situation. The largest bucket by far—comically magnified in the foreground of the screen—represented those areas that would need significant cuts...