Teamwork takes cooperation up a notch because in this case, the individuals share a common goal. This is important in organizations that often operate in silos and require cross-functional actions to achieve a goal, e.g. putting on a company trade show. Teams form as needed and disperse when the goal is reached.
The Class of 1984 included Loretta Lynch, who would later become the first African-American woman to be Attorney General of the United States. In 1990, Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama, who graduated from HLS in 1991, would later represent Illinois in the U.S Senate, and in 2008 would become the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American president.
First Woman Is Appointed As Dean of Harvard Law. Elena Kagan, a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton and onetime clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court, has been appointed dean of the Harvard University Law School, Lawrence H. Summers, the university president, announced yesterday. Ms. Kagan, 42, will be the first woman to lead the law school in its 186-year history.