<p>It tells you that most schools will give their eye teeth to upgrade their faculty with people bearing the Harvard imprimatur. </p>
<p>They wait anxiously, like so many jackels circling the campfire, to see who gets tenure at Harvard and who doesn’t. The rejects are eagerly gobbled up. </p>
<p>It has ever been thus. </p>
<p>Harvard’s “yield rate” for recruiting top faculty is nearly as high as its yield rate for recruiting top students, however.</p>