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Pharmaceutical companies?? reluctance to invest in drugs for diseases like TB leads some to question whether for-profit firms have a productive role to play in treating the world’s poorest. “There are lots of ways of skinning cats, but I don’t think that realistically you can ask corporations to undertake not-for-profit roles,” Whitesides says...
...infuriating more knowledgeable ones. Take, for example, the Guide’s definition of “Biotech” (“A massive industry devoted to the manipulation of life for profit…Harvard currently has extensive partnerships worth millions of dollars with big biotech companies??), which fails to note the tremendous medicinal benefits that Harvard’s biology and biotechnology investments have yielded. Further, the Guide implores freshmen to be “up in arms” about the existence of the Harvard Corporation, writing, “incoming first-years should...
...search by essentially doing a good percentage of the work for students. Instead of seeking out companies directly, students submit their resumes and schedule interviews online with participating companies and have the option to attend the numerous information sessions offered. This past week, more than fifteen companies??ranging from the Boston Consulting Group and Goldman Sachs to the CIA, Google, Inc. and General Mills—have invited students to hear their presentations and meet with current employees and recruiters. “The recruiting program is much more diverse than just the consulting firms and investment banks...
Women are willing to work, and work just as hard as men. But to do so, corporate cultures must change to accommodate non-traditional work styles; corporations will not be taking a hit, but yielding the same productivity. For example, many companies??among them Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, and I.B.M.—have begun to not only increase the amount of paid family leave time, but also encourage telecommuting and video conferencing, and deemphasizing face-time and late-night office hours...
...Achmat also shared his views on the history of HIV in South Africa. He attributed the Mbeki government’s failure to manage the AIDS crisis to its “denialist” attitude and to “the enormous power of drug companies?? over public policy. Achmat said that in coming to Harvard, he was fulfilling a promise he had made which a heart attack in 2004 had stopped him from carrying out. This is his last stop on a tour of the country that has included Duke and the University of Chicago...