It is worth studying what has made US institutions markedly better than others in the world. Key factors are ‘national wealth, large population, government support especially of science’ along with the migration of talent from Europe to the US because of the Second World War, and the ‘American habit of private philanthropy’.50 Henry Rosovsky, former dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, also points to certain specific features in the governance structure, such as the fact that all senior and middle management of an institution ‘are appointed, not elected, and they can be
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