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Peter Drucker once observed that, "Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work." Nine years after the management guru's death, his remark is truer than ever: employees often have to negotiate a mass of clutter--from bulging inboxes to endless meetings and long lists of objectives to box-tick--before they can focus on their real work.

There's a big controversy at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the business school regularly ranked as the best place to get an international business education. The struggling school, which had a $4 million deficit in fiscal 2013, has agreed to a partnership deal with a for-profit education provider called Laureate Education Inc.

I wrote Dean Nohria in response to this story Ben Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit.

Editor's Note: Joseph A. Grundfest is the W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University Law School. SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher and I just posted on SSRN a new paper, titled Did Harvard Violate Federal Securities Law? The Campaign Against Classified Boards of Directors.

It's hard out there for a young person. 

“Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only 55%, say it as if you believe it 100%.” That’s the gist of an information session on how to be a good student at Harvard Business School, as described by Susan Cain in her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.

Among the many revelations in Jodi Kantor's in-depth article on Harvard Business School's gender and class divide was that there's a group

Nearly half of workers (49%) don't negotiate their first job offers. Oftentimes, it comes down to a lack of experience in negotiating, which can be a tricky step for most.