Saying No
But MacFarquhar maintains he does not think universities should use large pay packages to lure professors they want to join the Faculty.
"There are ways to make coming to Harvard very attractive, but there are always some obstacles," he says.
MacFarquhar says professors leave their jobs--and choose new ones--for a variety of reasons. For instance, he says that professors may choose to leave Harvard because they want to do research or write, rather than teach.
"The Harvard faculty are quite hard worked in comparison with faculty at other comparable institutions," he says.
MacFarquhar says he knows of at least one professor who left Harvard in order to have more time for research.
Morris P. Fiorina, a former professor of government, left Harvard for Stanford, telling colleagues he "recommends Stanford for faculty and Harvard for undergraduates, because a lot of faculty there only have to teach half the time," MacFarquhar says.
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