Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University In the 1990s he had crafted American policies to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of th. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning.
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| Title | : | Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060568542 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2005-03-01 |
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It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. And everyone worried that Harvard's outgoing president, Neil Rudenstine, epitomized an unhappy trend: the university president as full-time fund-raiser. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but had the university lost its soul?The members of the Harvard Corporation, the ultra-secretive governing board established more than three centuries ago, knew that they had to act. And so they made a bold pick for Harvard's twenty-seventh president: former Treasury Secretary and intellectual prodigy economist Lawrence Summers.Although famously brilliant, Summers was a high-stakes gamble. In the 1990s he had crafted American policies to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of th
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly In an attempt to place Harvard's current president, Larry Summers, in historical perspective, this intriguing study explores his policies, leadership style and previous career in reference to other presidents as far back as Charles W. Eliot (president from 1869-1909). Bradley, author of the bestselling American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, writes with tactful reserve about the backroom intrigues and infighting that have characterized Summer's presidency, always showing both sides of the issues-and the book is no less gripping for it. These struggles, involving such luminaries as Cornel West, Skip Gates, Robert Rubin and Alan Dershowitz, are riveting even when handled with kid gloves. But Bradley addresses much more than simply the contentious start to Summer's tenure at Harvard. On the one hand, he offers an insightful look at how the role of the American university president has changed from a moral and intellectual leader independent of political and cor
(So it also blends the past with the present and the future.)
Then it dives immediately into applications. I will cherish this edition for many years to come.. It is a useful tool, as well, for those who want to learn how to practice many of the skills required to create "executive community" in their organizations, instead of remaining as an isolated and turned-off manager.. WHile this was over my head it did not bore me. He disagrees with the common view that the ceremonial and civil law have been done away with in Christ while the moral law remains binding, teaching instead that the whole Mosaic law is no longer in force since the coming of Christ. Instead, "To walk through a list from beginning to end, you use a simple for loop.
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