It was almost like being back in Harvard, but now he was a professor, dispensing erudition, occasionally raising a chuckle from an attentive audience.
Boston-based start-ups have tended to emerge from universities like MIT and Harvard as technological innovations in search of markets.
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Yet for all of his popular appeal and surface accessibility, Einstein also came to symbolize the perception that modern physics was something that ordinary laymen could not comprehend, "the province of priest-like experts, " in the words of Harvard professor Dudley Herschbach.
In other words, after universities like Harvard and Stanford had gone to the trouble setting up reciprocal or unilateral exchange programs and had reserved thereunder a number of positions for students from Japan, the Japanese university was failing to produce the students.
For instance, I was trained in graduate school by political scientists like the late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington (of The Clash of Civilizations fame) and economists like Janos Kornai, yet I am completely mystified by chemistry.
Yet, as the professors point out, the desire to make management a profession like law and medicine was central to Harvard Business School in the first decades after it was founded 100 years ago.
Private equity stakes like Harvard's are selling at 40% to 60% discounts in various markets.
What will universities like Harvard, museums like the Metropolitan and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston have to say to their political representatives.
But Peter is an outstanding economist, and when his views are also echoed by other highly respected economists like David Cutler of Harvard (one of the most highly respected health economists in the world, who engaged in a debate with Chuck on my Facebook page), I often find myself temporarily in a state of cognitive dissonance.
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Like that study done on the Harvard Business School class you may have heard of, in which only 3% of the graduating students wrote down clear goals.
Professor DAVID BARRON (Harvard): There was a sense that those were not like Nixon-like scandals in the sense they were substantive positions that the government had which you might have thought were odious or you might have thought were attractive, but you didn't think were partisan.
Nonetheless, in a recent study by Harvard's Richard Murnane and co-authors, differences in mother-child interaction patterns like these were found to account for one-third of the black-white gap in math and English skills at the beginning of kindergarten -- and one-quarter at the end of third grade.
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