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...private sector in 2007. According to Ellwood, many Kennedy School students enter the private sector due to large salary differences, doubts about future opportunities within the public sector, and ineffective government recruiting. For example, private companies extend job offers far more speedily than the federal government, which can often taken nine months to conclude the recruiting process, Ellwood said. The mere weeks a private firm like McKinsey takes to make an offer can push graduates toward the private sector. And McKinsey can also pay a larger salary, Ellwood added. “We have to do better than that...
...really looking forward to the renovations, especially in Dunster,” Alpine says, referencing overcrowding that often characterizes residences. “Hopefully, they’ll redesign some of these walk-throughs...
...straw,” said Kagan, who graduated from the Law School in 1986. “But within all this difficulty there is also incredible potential and promise, and yours is the task of finding that promise by remaking the world.” Law School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries. As a result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through...
...Commencement approaches, Harvard likes to think it has helped to produce another class of leaders. But are leaders born or made? Is nature or nurture more important? I address these questions in my recent book, The Powers to Lead. How often have you heard someone say that a political candidate looks (or does not look) like a leader? A tall handsome person enters a room, draws attention, and “looks like a leader.” Various studies have shown that tall men are often favored, and corporate CEOs are taller than average. Moreover, tall men tend...
Harvard College’s Administrative Board, often seen as a monolithic, stolid body, may see revisions to its policies and proceedings in the near future.Procedures regarding representation in Ad Board cases, the size of hearings, and the threshold for punishment, are often decried by students as either opaque or overly harsh. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds indicated that policy in these areas will be reworked in her presentation at this year’s final meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Other issues, such as the question of whether students will play a role...