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You want to be the boss. You probably won’t be very good at it. — Harvard Gazette


You want to be the boss. You probably won’t be very good at it. — Harvard Gazette

Good managers are hard to find. Most companies choose their managers based on personality traits, age or experience – and according to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they may be wrong. The study, co-authored by David Deming, Isabelle and Scott Black, professor of political economy at Harvard Kennedy School, concludes […]

Questions and answers with Bessie Flores Zaldívar


Questions and answers with Bessie Flores Zaldívar

Bessie Flores Zaldívar’s first young adult novel is set in 2017 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Freedom follows 18-year-old gay poet Libi and her mother, grandmother, and brothers Maynor and Alberto as they navigate the months leading up to a highly anticipated—and historically contentious—presidential election. As Libi tries to understand her queer identity and how it might […]

Questions and answers with Randy Ribay


Questions and answers with Randy Ribay

Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saint of NothingnessNational Book Award finalist, explores masculinity and family trauma in his historical young adult novel Everything we never had. After Francisco emigrates from the Philippines to Watsonville, California in 1929, his dreams of a fresh start are dashed by racist violence. Francisco’s son Emil later struggles to support […]