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Getting to Si, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da
Harvard Business Review - Erin Meyer
In cross-border negotiations, managers often discover that perfectly rational deals fall apart when their counterparts make what seem to be unreasonable demands or don’t respect their commitments. Each
Hooking Up Is Easy to Do (But Pretty Complicated)
New York Magazine - By Katie Van Syckle
Sex on Campus Hooking Up Is Easy To Do But pretty complicated. Photograph by Brendan Hunt Bard class of 2016 On the first night of Dartmouth’s fall term, a …
College Calculus
The New Yorker - John Cassidy
What’s the real value of higher education? If there is one thing most Americans have been able to agree on over the years, it is that getting an education, particularly a college education, is a key to
“Most Of The Times I Ever Lost A Lot Of Money With Somebody, They Graduated From Harvard.”
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The brokerage business was changed the minute the Internet was born… It took the power of information, which is what the broker had the best of — …
Poison Ivy
The New Yorker - Nathan Heller
Are élite colleges bad for the soul? I went to college early in this century, when the drug of choice on campus was sleep deprivation. Students trying to do more than the day allowed would run their work
Students Travel To 2025 To Question The Future Of Higher Education
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They learned about four possible future higher education tracks, or could create their own. The year is 2100 and Stanford University has presented an …
Fossil fuel protesters blockade offices at Harvard University | Financial Times
Financial Times - Ed Crooks
Students at Harvard University blockaded its administrative offices in support of their campaign to persuade the institution to sell the investments in fossil fuel companies held by its $33bn endowment.
How Mental Biases Distort Perceptions of MBA Program Rankings
Harvard Business Review
When considering MBA programs and colleges that move up in published rankings, people are most impressed when the movement crosses a round-number category, such as from number 11 to number 10, as opposed
April madness: The problem with American college admissions
The Washington Post - By Pia de Jong
‘Iwould like to congratulate you on raising an exceptional student,” read the letter from a Midwestern college I’d never heard of before. “Because I’m impressed by your son, I offer to send a guide to
Prepared remarks by Philip J. Hanlon, president of Dartmouth College
The Washington Post
Philip J. Hanlon, president of Dartmouth College, delivered a speech Wednesday night in which he said that the elite Ivy League school’s promise “is being hijacked by extreme behavior, masked by its perpetrators
How Stanford Admitted A Cheat To Its MBA Program
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How did Mathew Martoma, who was expelled from Harvard Law School in 1999 for forging his transcript, get into the most selective business school in …
The Job Market for MBAs is About to Take a Hit
Harvard Business Review - Walter Frick
If you’re graduating from business school this spring, you might want to be sitting down for this: the job market for recent MBA graduates looks poised to get a lot worse in 2014. That’s based on an annual