<p>tsk tsk. my advisor and i were laughing and poking fun at harvard. we both agreed that harvard is currently the last place we’d want to be given its impossiblity to grant tenure. 
she added, “Or, you need a really big name!” Which is true, too.</p>
<p>There’ll be politics everywhere you go, even in business, so there is not a lot you can do to avoid it completely when you’re up for promotion.</p>