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...majority of the companies that have flocked to Harvard this September to wine-and-dine seniors and inform them about their companies are, as in past years, in the financial sector...
...average wage of $51,000; $2.5 billion annually in research funding; average construction activity of $850 million per year; and total direct expenditures of nearly $4 billion annually in the metro area. Boston’s universities actually added jobs in the last two years, a claim no other sector can make...
...Other cities and states already are. Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago are well on their way to building cross-sector alliances to boost local higher education. Though less well-endowed than Boston, these cities reveal a more advanced understanding of the pay-off from thriving universities. States like Colorado, Ohio, Michigan and Arizona have created so-called “university-business-state road maps” to maximize the potential of in-state research institutions. Massachusetts has not. Others are coming after our students, our faculty and our research dollars. When will we wake...
...business spending are suddenly surging, so believers are beginning to emerge. David Bowers, chief global strategist for Merrill Lynch, recently upgraded Japan from underperform to neutral. If the global recovery is strong, Japan's export businesses have a long way to rise, he reasons. He likes the banking sector most. Consider a fund like Fidelity Japan. Better to tiptoe into Japan for now. One of these days the turn there will be real...
...reluctant entrant into the family empire, having started his own independent hip-hop label after dropping out of Harvard. He had a hand in one of Murdoch's early Internet ventures, Delphi, which was a costly disaster. He then took over the entire new-media sector for News Corp., which lost hundreds of millions of dollars and never created a leading web-site in any category. Since then, however, James has scored higher marks for his performance as head of STAR TV, the Hong Kong-based pan-Asian broadcaster that turned profitable last year. Whoever takes over at BSkyB...