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SEAS Director of Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Julie S. Holbrook concedes that, while not yet finalized, graduate student support is a “huge investment?? for the school, and that it is “certainly something that people are talking about reducing...
...stockbroker takes care to diversify each of her portfolios, American philanthropists as a group are wise to pursue both the “Leadership Academy” and the “Local Village School” models. Within this philanthropic portfolio, the leadership academy functions as a venture investment??expensive, risky, but with the potential to pay unprecedented dividends. Such potential is attached to a small number of graduates and hinges on the expectation that each graduate will affect real change in her native country. On the other hand, the smaller, more localized school is akin...
...with higher testosterone levels are more likely to opt for high-risk investments, according to a study by a Harvard anthropologist and a visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked them to invest the money as they saw fit. If participants made a successful investment??as determined by the flip of a coin—they were rewarded with two-and-a-half times the amount invested. If the “investment?? failed, the participant lost his money. The team hoped to further analyze the cross-cultural finding that women...
...first time that Fahey sought a loan from Realty Financial Partners was in March 2001. Fahey is seeking approximately $20 million in damages, the amount he says he would have earned on the project. The defendants argued in court papers that because they were not directly involved in the investment??s management, state law shielded them from Fahey’s accusations. The Harvard Management Company’s outgoing president, Mohamed A. El-Erian, could not be reached for comment. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...action plan” that followed his personal approach to reforms. The points emphasized economic liberalization and deals like the Central American Free Trade Agreement, but also called for “family values,” “solidarity,” and “public investment?? based upon the needs of citizens...