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...most issues, the candidates sing in harmony: They all oppose President Barack Obama’s plans to reform health care and stop global warming. But listen closely, and you’ll hear subtle differences. For instance, Caligiuri wanted “strong financial incentives?? to curb emissions, while Foley acknowledged, “I think the cap and trade system should be a small part of the solution...
...After the Massachusetts Film Bureau was dissolved in 2002, it looked as if the Bay State’s major motion picture future was destined to be restricted to films explicitly requiring Boston’s unique Puritanical charm. Then, in 2006, Massachusetts joined other states in offering financial incentives??specifically, a 25 percent tax credit for in-state spending—to film productions. It wasn’t long before Tinseltown had changed its attitude toward New England and, in just two years, the Massachusetts film industry has morphed from a nearly non-existent enterprise into...
...left his post as a history professor because he could make more money from tourists’ tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people respond to economic incentives really seems to hold true in this case. Economic incentives??and sadly, not solely intellectual or spiritual motives—can bring about progress in areas like medicine, technology, and scholarship. Ultimately, it’s a trade-off. A society can either have complete equality and no social divisions but inadequate resources, or great inequality and social divisions...
Abernathy said the second statement emerged from concerns that the reform proposal does not provide concrete incentives??in the form of funding, teaching fellows and other support—that the Core Office currently gives faculty who develop Core courses...
According to Meyer, hedge funds, a common form of external management, charge an average of 1.5 percent in annual management fees plus 20 percent of profits. HMC, on the other hand, gets the job done while charging a base fee of 0.26 percent plus incentives??which can be positive or negative. Thus, Meyer estimates that Harvard would have paid roughly twice as much over the past 10 years to achieve the same returns on the endowment using external management...