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Stephen W. Stromberg
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Two Weird Tips To Get Your Oddly Specific Dream Job
The truth is I got my dream job mostly because I was lucky. I was also in the right place at the right time. But I would not have been in the building if I had not stubbornly put myself there. So go where you want to be. Ask for what you want. Otherwise, you might have to go to law school.
The Art of Foresight
As every Harvard graduate knows, it is not the brand-name of international renown, the consistent media scrutiny of its miniscule
First Class Marshal Aims To Befriend Class of '05
Never content to chat too long with just one clique of soon-to-be Harvard graduates, Caleb I. Franklin ’05 spent the
And So It Goes
I promised myself I wouldn’t write my final column on all the topics I didn’t get to cover this semester.
Getting Past Disciplines
One of the big words around the academy these days is “interdisciplinary.” Along with internationalization, added emphasis on study that
BOOKENDS: Ec Prof’s Defense of Shock Therapy May Send Jolt to Kremlinologists
Ask the average Russian about Boris Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” approach to privatization in the early 1990s, and you’ll get anything
Another Month, Another Flap
It’s not quite innate differences, but the university president everyone loves to hate has another cadre of academics angry at
Liberal Smarts
In his recent anti-Harvard diatribe in the Atlantic Monthly, Ross G. Douthat ’02 writes: “As in a great library ravaged
The Question of Leadership
Can Summers still govern? Maybe. On Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) declared that it “lacks confidence” in