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...pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with students were the common threads tying together a year that was disappointing by any standard. McKay Professor of Computer Science Michael D. Smith, who was named Dean of the Faculty Monday, faces quite a challenge in uniting and inspiring the Faculty.The main business of the year for the full Faculty was to complete the Curricular Review, which was limping into its fifth year. One would expect that an opportunity to reinvent the meaning of a liberal education would draw Harvard’s academics out in droves. Yet anemic attendance at Faculty...
...create opportunities for yourself. And, when you’re in charge, provide others with that chance.” The preparation for this kind of leadership is the centerpiece of the HBS education he said. “For decades, Cambridge has supplied Wall Street, Main Street and Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, and Mumbai with a steady stream of leaders,” he said. “They achieved greatness not because their Harvard degrees entitled them to it, but because of their creativity, their determination, and their strong sense of accountability.” He praised...
Stagehands scurried around the Barker Center in mid-February with potted plants and a flashy red banner in hand. Inside the first-floor Thompson Room, the stage was being set for the afternoon’s main act: President-elect Drew G. Faust. Flanked by members of Harvard’s governing boards, and with John Harvard and a former Radcliffe president looking down from the wood-paneled walls, Faust took the national spotlight for the first time as Harvard’s next leader...
...Many of these experiments are actually being performed in Boston, which Fryer says gives the projects a special relevance to Harvard. The main goal in every project is to focus on inequality in a scientific way, divorcing the data from its controversial racial implications in order to objectively analyze...
...longer accused of lecturing from my lecture notes. The main and often vocal complaint now is that I don’t teach my students anything—they have to learn it all on their...