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Harvard Name Isn't Always Enough

If after all this work, a professor chooses to turn the University down, departments must go back to square one.

It can be a long and tiring process. But Knowles says he is not disturbed by the number of professors who turn down tenure.

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"You might like to look at it the other way," Knowles says. "That is, about 70 percent of our offers succeed...Actually our overall success rate is a bit higher than it was in the eighties."

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