It's true that they won't spontaneously combust or anything, but like any massive organization that's grown too cumbersome while simultaneously making bad decisions, they are now in decline. GE is an example of this. The company isn't going anywhere, but it will never be what it was because it's leadership made too many poor choices and their employees aren't the same bunch of talented and dedicated people they used to be, just like Harvard's students aren't who they used to be either. If that idiot whiner Hogg can get into Harvard, what's the point of Harvard? This is just icing on the cake of their slow but steady fall from grace.
Problem is the whole ideology of too big to fail seems to have infiltrated the west on a whole, as with an irrational fear of trying and failing in general, the moment a corporation or other entity starts to go under you have someone in government stepping in to stick a pole up its arse, hook its heart up to an old battery and keep it going. As long as Trump is in I'm not so worried though.
I guess at least in Harvard's case they only really provide an education and since the pretence of doing that with any earnesty has grown thin employers will stop looking to them for grads, so it won't matter if they're still around by then, the damage will be done. It's gonna be funny when they sink to the level of community college as far as reputation goes.
It's true that they won't spontaneously combust or anything, but like any massive organization that's grown too cumbersome while simultaneously making bad decisions, they are now in decline. GE is an example of this. The company isn't going anywhere, but it will never be what it was because it's leadership made too many poor choices and their employees aren't the same bunch of talented and dedicated people they used to be, just like Harvard's students aren't who they used to be either. If that idiot whiner Hogg can get into Harvard, what's the point of Harvard? This is just icing on the cake of their slow but steady fall from grace.
Problem is the whole ideology of too big to fail seems to have infiltrated the west on a whole, as with an irrational fear of trying and failing in general, the moment a corporation or other entity starts to go under you have someone in government stepping in to stick a pole up its arse, hook its heart up to an old battery and keep it going. As long as Trump is in I'm not so worried though.
I guess at least in Harvard's case they only really provide an education and since the pretence of doing that with any earnesty has grown thin employers will stop looking to them for grads, so it won't matter if they're still around by then, the damage will be done. It's gonna be funny when they sink to the level of community college as far as reputation goes.
harvard provides a brand, not an education as the primary product.
They're intrinsically intertwined, without providing a good education the brand name suffers.