Swarthmore College
Liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvaniawww.swarthmore.edu
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Oct 30, 2026
John R. MilesHOST
Here's what she told me about rewriting that tape, and it's practical.
John R. MilesHOST
Swarthmore, she said, makes all of students' first semester classes pass-fail.
John R. MilesHOST
Freed from grades, students take a class in something they're genuinely curious about.
John R. MilesHOST
Now, not every school can do that, so she suggests that students choose one course a semester to take pass-fail as their risk-taking course.
Michael MauboussinHOST
Today, we will explore how that approach works, where it can go wrong, and whether a relatively simple liquid portfolio can be an alternative to a much more complicated strategy.
Michael MauboussinHOST
We are delighted to welcome Jim Engle, president of John W. Bristol & Company, an employee-owned investment management firm founded in 1937, originally to advise the endowments of Princeton University and Swarthmore College.
Michael MauboussinHOST
Jim joined Bristol in 2000 after spending 17 years at DLJ Asset Management, the last dozen of those as Chief Investment Officer.
Michael MauboussinHOST
At Bristol, he coordinates the research effort and is responsible for portfolio strategy, banks and financial services, and fixed income.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
This is one of the ones that does have a Knock LA endorsement.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
Went to Swarthmore and got a BA in Philosophy, which I think is interesting.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
And then J.D. from
Caree HarperGUEST
Stanford.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
So that is very inspiring.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
Most of you don't know my children or you don't yet, So I will say that there are people like Jeanette Rankin and Alice Paul, who's a fellow Swarthmore College alum who wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, and Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Chisholm and Patsy Mink, these women who took on structures and tried to make them more inclusive, those are the women who really inspire me.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
And it gives me hope.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
We've done this before.
Jean-Philippe CourtoisHOST
But let's continue a little bit, Rebecca.
Jean-Philippe CourtoisHOST
After Swarthmore and Columbia, you didn't go to Wall Street or to ministry.
Jean-Philippe CourtoisHOST
You went where schools had been destroyed, which reminds me actually of another guest in a different field, Jacqueline Novogratz.
Jean-Philippe CourtoisHOST
you know, created Acumen, whose years in Rwanda shaped everything that followed in your life.
Alexis ReddingGUEST
And so making changes to the way we do things in any way that can pierce that narrative is so profound.
Alexis ReddingGUEST
I think about Swarthmore College, so a highly selective college in Pennsylvania, has a standing practice for all entering students, and that is your first semester, you don't get grades.
Alexis ReddingGUEST
Automatically, you don't opt into it.
Alexis ReddingGUEST
Automatically, as a first semester student, all of your classes are pass-fail.
John R. MilesHOST
We absolutely do.
John R. MilesHOST
One of my children really wanted to go to an Ivy League school and they got into them.
John R. MilesHOST
They got into Swarthmore too and ended up making the decision not to go in that direction.
John R. MilesHOST
But what I saw was such a enormous amount of self-pressure to try to do everything right to enable them to do the things they thought were they needed to do to get in, that pressure, which was self-inflicted, has just tremendous negative impacts that not only impact them in high school, but then it gets carried forward into the university environment as well.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
Well, this book was my first book.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
And as I completed the study, the writing up of it and all, By the time I finished, I had decamped from Chicago to Swarthmore College, and I spent a couple of years there before the University of Pennsylvania recruited me to Penn and to the city of Philadelphia.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
My wife and I moved into an area called Palatine Village, and I completed my dissertation.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
understanding on some level what it meant to live in that community.
Charles CassidyHOST
All right, so after a focus on the brain and the neuroscience, now it is time to step away and look at how wisdom does or doesn't turn up in the places where we actually spend our days, our institutions, our workplaces, our offices.
Charles CassidyHOST
This is something that has occupied a huge amount of the attention of psychologist Barry Schwartz, an emeritus professor from Swarthmore College.
Charles CassidyHOST
So we asked him, what are some of the ways organizations block their teams from cultivating practical wisdom? And how can we get better at this?
Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Phronesis requires judgment.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
Well, this book was my first book.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
And as I completed the study, the writing up of it and all, By the time I finished, I had decamped from Chicago to Swarthmore College, and I spent a couple of years there before the University of Pennsylvania recruited me to Penn and to the city of Philadelphia.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
My wife and I moved into an area called Palatine Village, and I completed my dissertation.
Elijah AndersonGUEST
understanding on some level what it meant to live in that community.
Debbie ShonGUEST
It never was that way.
Debbie ShonGUEST
I realized recently, well, not that recently, there was a professor at, where was he? Swarthmore.
Debbie ShonGUEST
His name is Joseph Campbell.
Debbie ShonGUEST
If you've ever read any of his things.
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