Results for “School Partnerships”

…nts to do things that are not in line with who they are as people. This matters because much of what we try to teach in school and train for in companies is an attempt to alter behavior. I have been building what have come to be called e-learning sys- tems for about 25 years. Ov...

…-day operations center. But it was where the commanders of the armed forces operated during times of war. At officers’ school, we’d heard and read about the importance of throwing the enemy “off balance”. Now, we were the ones off balance. The faces I saw around me were gray and...

…e Madoff UNFORTUNATE name? City Spy's eye is drawn to a forthcoming lecture at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It's in partnership with the Market Abuse Association. What? Do they wear a club tie? Do they refer to each othe...

… as well: business, economics, political science, history, sociology, psychology. I studied game theory at the business school, and the evolution of political systems under the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. I also went to lectures by James G. March, on how psychological, soc...

two books impressed me mightily. They still do. One is Konrad Lorenz’s On Aggression. An M.D. and a Ph.D. and a 1973 Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology

” but at least by objective standards I’ve exceeded the expectations my high school teachers and principal had for me. None of them thought I was “college material.”

because my academic performance was abysmal. In my senior semester my first half grades were as follows (I still have the report card): English 80; Math 60 (F); Hebrew 65; History 65; Physics 60 (F). With two failing grades

my memory for obscure facts and the “parlor tricks” I played with it got me an interview with the producers of a television game show called “The $64

400 to go to college. (I put the money in an interest bearing account that paid for my first year at law school.) The state scholarship was based entirely on a single

though the formative dynamic was mostly reactive. I think about them often. My wife says I am obsessed with nostalgia for my troubled adolescent past.

…ages) for which it was responsible. I was not yet 21. Sue was 19. My mother wouldn’t let me go to an out of town law school unless I was married

such as economics and science—both physical and social. I worked as a research assistant on Professor Calabresi’s groundbreaking article on law and economics

…rder to obtain the kind of job offers I would be seeking after finishing my clerkships. Two of my other mentors at law school

and he went on to become Dean of Hofstra Law School and one of the nation’s leading experts in legal ethics. I tried to follow in his large footsteps but I’m not sure I ever made as good an oral argument as he did in the Morgan case. It was quite a way to begin my career as a l...

…h continue to influence me to this day. There could be no better preparation for my life as a professor at Harvard Law School.