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...companies. The South Asia edition joins HBR versions printed in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan—as well as Spanish- and Portuguese-language Latin American publications based in Chile. Although less than 5 percent of the Indian population—which totals nearly 1.1 billion??speaks English fluently, HBS South Asia will be published in English, making it the first international edition in the same language as the review’s flagship. The launch of the new edition comes less than a year after Harvard Business School opened the India Research Center...
...There was no conflict of interest here,” Clark said. “Lazard has annual revenues of about $1.5 billion??when you consider that the income [from Icahn] was $5 million, and maybe a bonus if the [Time Warner] stock price was raised, this issue would never have made it to the board of directors...
...education and research. The University would merely be accomplishing something that every charity is set up to do at the cost of what only Harvard can do.Granted, no one is willing to empty the endowment for landmines. But if logical arithmetic deems it ludicrous to spend all $25.9 billion??because money spent on Harvard will go farther, in the end, than money spent on charity—then that same arithmetic also deems it wasteful to spend any money at all on charity. The University should play to its strengths and resist, on principle, the draining...
Larson invested foreign equity for Harvard Management Company (HMC)—the firm that invests the University’s endowment, last reported at $22.6 billion??before he left with his HMC team to form Sowood. At both firms, Larson has been an active player in these disputes...
...absorbed (even though most of their constituents can’t even recall their names in most surveys), it is a bit disconcerting that they think they can publicly lie about the governor by accusing him of cutting education funding—in fact he raised it by $3 billion??then make nice with him in the famous “cigar-tent” and ask for autographs for their children. I think he should remind them that “he can break your neck like a chicken’s” (The Running...