Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heimert quickly discovered his affinity for American history, but even as he completed his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln he had not yet decided to enter the world of academia...
Summers describes himself as a "market-oriented progressive"--his policies not that different from Rubin's. But unlike Rubin, he first made his mark in the relatively genteel realm of academia rather than on the trading floor. A product of the Cambridge crowd of economists--proponents of the so-called Third Way of economic policy, a sort of free-market advocacy with a social conscience--he taught at Harvard for 10 years. A father of three and an avid tennis player--he's a hard-serving, hard-hitting sort of player, as opposed to Greenspan and his cagey spin serves...
...institutions of higher education like Harvard, the suggestion that "customer knows best" might bring blank stares, if not sarcastic chuckles from top administrators. Indeed, this mentality that has won so much praise (and new business) for firms like Nordstrom's or Southwest goes against everything that the world of academia stands...
...institutions of higher education like Harvard, the suggestion that "customer knows best" might bring blank stares, if not sarcastic chuckles from top administrators. Indeed, this mentality that has won so much praise (and new business) for firms like Nordstrom's or Southwest goes against everything that the world of academia stands...
...because everyone knows the job market for Ph.D.s, especially humanities Ph.D.s, is pretty bad right now," said Lynn Y. Lee '99, one of the winners and a former Crimson executive. "I think the Mellon is just a great way of encouraging people to do graduate study and go into academia in the humanities...