Half a Million Reasons to Leave Harvard; Support for Sex-Bias Suit Against Columbia

According to a source familiar with the negotiations, Mr. Shleifer, who is on leave from Harvard this year, has been spending time in the Stern school's finance department over the last several months, giving lectures and talking to faculty members. Mr. Shleifer has been a professor at Harvard since 1991 and is known for the breadth of his expertise, which spans such topics as economic reform in Russia, capital markets, and stock-price movements. Sylvia Newman, president of the Legal Advocacy Fund's Board of Directors, says that Ms. Chichilnisky's case illustrates the continuing hurdles faced by female scholars, even after they've broken through the glass ceiling.