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...Business School years. “Unfortunately, the current political climate in Washington is such that whoever’s a public face gets fried to a crisp.” Wagoner was known for being “polite to a fault” and “self-effacing” both during and after his time at Harvard, according to sectionmate David G. Offensend. But in his attempts to reform GM, his proclivity for “understatement” may have hindered efforts to convince a doubtful public that the company was aggressively moving forward with...
...From a self-reporting point of view," says Liljenquist, "what people perceive to be beneficial turns out to be dead wrong. The experience in diverse groups may not always be a feel-good session, but the pains can translate into real performance gains...
...right to privacy so that people must alter their profiles. Certain things that could have flown when it was a college-only website are no longer permissible now that Mom’s looking over your shoulder and companies and schools are researching profiles. Profiles without some degree of self-censorship are becoming increasingly rare, but some people still aren’t cottoning on; when my brother interviewed a few prospective Harvard freshmen this year, he was surprised to see that they hadn’t bothered to restrict access to their profile, allowing him full view of information...
...Harvard’s financial affairs seem to border on cataclysmic, some finance experts question whether the University’s investment decisions resulted from a lack of foresight as suggested by some media outlets.A recent Forbes cover story stated that Harvard’s “supremely self-confident money managers” were in a “cash-raising panic” after billions of dollars in derivatives investments went sour—forcing the University to post collateral it did not have. The dire situation, the article said, forced Harvard to pay unfavorably high interest...
Although the Iraqi insurgency has been markedly weakened and is a shadow of its former self - with only 13 of the 43 armed groups that once comprised it still actively engaged in violence, and with much dissent among them - it is by no means a spent force. Some groups appear to have heeded the ISI's call for unity. The Islamic State of Iraq and Ansar al-Islam - which worked with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the U.S. invasion in 2003 - have quietly formed a new alliance, pooling their intelligence and efforts, according to sources within both the insurgency...