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8 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“I applied to a number of Ivy League schools, thinking that was the right fit for me, and got rejected by all of them.”
02 / evaluation
“Academics and museums have been struggling with many of these questions about where do you draw the line on cultural appropriation, and when do you start giving back objects because that’s a slippery slope for many cultures across many time periods.”
03 / evaluation
“I think there’re real questions about how should endowments, including private foundations, which is this legacy of power because money was made in the past or money was contributed to an organization in the past, the tax code then gives favorable treatment to that.”
04 / evaluation
“I think the collection Laura and I have built has really tried to look at the history of art and especially figuration over time.”
05 / evaluation
“Art’s hard once your walls are full because then, not only is the question, do I love this piece, but do I love this piece more than the piece I love least in my collection today?”
06 / evaluation
“We started this whole line of work about what we called scientific integrity, academic integrity on how do you improve the process and the incentive system of academic research because there was this realization we had that everybody in the chain was incentivized to find the positive result, whether it was the funder, the academic, the university, the journal, or the popular press.”
07 / evaluation
“Would bring them in — I think everybody had a bit of chip on their shoulder when they came in — but brought in this collection of people, and they put them through the traditional Wall Street training and analyst program. But I think what was different about Enron versus the more mature investment banks was, Enron was growing so quickly and the industry was growing so quickly that if you showed any modicum of talent or ability to take responsibility, you would either get promoted or you get hired away by another firm that was trying to copy the Enron business model.”
08 / evaluation
“You have these little pockets of Hispanic neighborhoods and Black neighborhoods and White neighborhoods, but it’s more of a checkerboard throughout the city, and I think the city is better for it.”