The Dartmouth 02/18/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.33

PARTLY CLOUDY

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Nepal Summit discusses efforts

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“Chicago,” this year’s mainstage production, will start on Friday.

Howe library plans ahead By LAUREN BUDD

The Dartmouth Staff

The town of Hanover’s Howe Library is in the process of developing its strategic plan for the next five years, library director Mary White said. White said that for many years, the Howe Library tries to meet

community desires when developing its strategic plans. The current plan runs through the early fiscal year of 2017. The first step in this process was to have staff meetings with an experienced consultant, White said. She added that the library is currently in the second step of develop-

ing their strategic plan, which involves implementing a community survey in order to gain insights from the public regarding “what we do well, what we could do better, what their dream library would look like and what they would like SEE HOWE PAGE 2

From Feb. 18 to Feb. 20, Dartmouth will host the 2016 Leila and Melville Straus 1960 Family Symposium focused on the rebuilding efforts and response to the April 2015 and May 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake and the 7.3-magnitude earthquakes both devastated Nepal, creating a humanitarian crisis where over 8,000 people were killed and over two million people were displaced. The three-day summit will feature a photographic exhibition, panel discussions, film screenings, a keynote address by Swarnim Waglé, for mer member of Nepal’s National Planning Commission and a townhall discussion with Waglé and Mahendra Shrestha, chief of policy for the Nepali Health Ministry’s Planning and International Cooperation Division. The event, hosted by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, will include experts in technology, medicine, anthropology and arts in addition to members of the Nepali

government. Since the Straus Symposium is an annual event centered on the analysis of current global issues, main organizer of the event and Dickey Center program manager of human development initiatives Kenneth Bauer said that he wanted to take advantage of its focus to host this summit. Dartmouth also has a “strong history of response to natural disaster in the recent past,” anthropology professor Sienna Craig said. Bauer said that the College has been involved in humanitarian efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and in Kosovo following the civil war. He noted a theme of Dartmouth involvement in post-conflict resolution, global health, human development and rebuilding efforts. The idea of the summit comes from recognizing our “common humanity,“ Bauer said. Following the earthquake, there was a strong response on campus among SEE NEPAL PAGE 5

Q&A: Sydney Finkelstein talks ‘superbosses’

By CARTER BRACE

The Dartmouth Staff

Sydney Finkelstein, management professor at the Tuck School of Business, has a longstanding interest in what makes exceptional leaders. His new book released this month, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent” (2016), looks at the different traits of “superbosses,” people who have had great success in managing talent and transformed entire industries. The Dartmouth conducted an interview with Finkelstein discussing his research and his book.

Your book is about “superbosses?” What sparked your interest in the subject? SF: I’m a foodie and I’ve always followed the restaurant business. And at a restaurant in Berkeley called Chez Panisse that’s very famous, the restaurateur there is Alice Waters. And I happened to notice just by being alert to that industry that there were so many people that had come out of that restaurant who had opened restaurants themselves or foodie establishments and it seemed like she had a gigantic impact in that industry. I thought, “Well that’s kind of a cool thing, lets see if that’s

true anywhere else.” I looked at one industry after another. So it was more seeing something that was interesting to me and wanting to see how common that pattern is and understand what’s behind it.

So what was your research method for looking at these different industries? SF: Some of these industries have a lot of data. The NFL is a good example, there’s data on coaches and assistant coaches and who worked for whom and all the rest, so I was able to get that quite easily. Other industries require all kinds of other resources, the

primary one was interviews. I ended up interviewing literally hundreds of people to try to understand who were the superbosses and what they did that was different than any other boss. And along the way, and it was a very long process, I had many research assistants, including many Dartmouth and Tuck students. How long did that take in total? SF: From when I first got the idea to now that the book is out, it’s actually 10 years.

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