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...study by Peter Tufano ’79, a professor of financial management at the Business School, and Annamaria Lusardi, an economics professor at Dartmouth College. The survey, conducted by the global market research firm TNS, asked 1,000 Americans about credit card debt. Over 64 percent of respondents could not correctly estimate how their interest would compound over time. The majority of people also said they did not understand minimum payments, and few could determine the different financial consequences between paying monthly installments or a lump sum. The results also revealed that one in four of those surveyed said...
...already helped one breakthrough—which emerged from the work of Harvard scientists Jose Halperin and Gerhard Wagner—enter a licensing agreement with Egenix, Inc, a New York-based biotechnology company. Kohlberg said that such agreements will help make the fund self-perpetuating because 20 percent of proceeds from licensing deals inked with help from the accelerator to replenish the pool of funds. According to Brugge, the areas funded had the potential of having the greatest impact on others. “The highest priority is given to projects that involve the study of disease that?...
...used to hold back dirt during excavations.Other Riverside residents at the meeting complained that they felt excluded from the decision-making process surrounding the Cowperthwaite project.Construction began on the six-story Cowperthwaite apartments in 2005, as part of the University’s initiative to provide housing for 50 percent of its graduate students by 2011.Councilor Craig A. Kelley says he is concerned about the level of communication between the University and residents of the Riverside neighborhood.“As I understand it, a variety of neighbors think Harvard has not at all met its commitments...
...There is something wrong with a system that produces a 20 percent depression rate,” she added...
...campus is far more common than one would expect. The stigma of mental illness, though unfounded, remains a major obstacle for many who could benefit from the ample mental health services on campus. According to a 2006 senior thesis studying the state of mental health at Harvard, 56 percent of Harvard undergraduates surveyed reported needing, but not seeking, mental health help. Of those students, 20 percent identified shame or stigma as the reason for not seeking help. A startling eight percent of us have considered or attempted suicide...