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To: Bearded One who wrote (100396)	4/13/2000 4:02:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Bearded One: That was a really ugly close.

To: Bearded One who wrote (100396)	4/13/2000 4:08:00 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>Suppose Harvard lowered its admissions standards and increased its enrollment by a factor of 50....the value of the network would decrease, not increase. Of course it would. You have completely misconstrued what I said. I simply said that as a network, Harvard's value increases with size, scale, and scope. To prove my point, let's take an example. Suppose I wanted to do business in India and believed that a Harvard connection could open up some doors. I might try to get access to an alumni database and search for "India". I would probably get several thousand hits in government ministries and businesses. Having access to that network might prove quite valuable. Now let's imagine that the year is year 1640 instead of 2000 and that I have just graduated in the first graduating class. How valuable would the alumni network be to my search for business connections in India? Not very valuable I think. (I admit that if I were searching for connections in Massachusetts Bay Colony, the value might be somewhat greater.) The value of the network increases with size, scale, and scope. Certainly it would decrease if it lowered its admission standards. Sam