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...Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company, but happens to be owned by a company in India." Tata says the group's success proves his approach is good business, as well as good karma: "We are not in anything for charity." Lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata...
...approach is also in complete contravention of the spirit of the new general education program, which was supposed to be a transition from “approaches to knowledge” to knowledge itself. Advocating such a category amounts to a resurrection of an economics “way of knowing” and is a blatant attempt at smuggling Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” into a college-wide requirement. The centerpiece of “The Market and Society” component would, in reality, be one course. The other courses?...
...investment models as well as its nontraditional workforce. Its staff includes a Jeopardy champion, a former member of the MIT blackjack team, and several former professors, including the firm’s founder, David E. Shaw. “The D. E. Shaw Group has been pioneering in its approach to investment and technology,” Summers said in a statement. “It has assembled a gifted and talented team with a deep commitment to applying the most sophisticated thinking to all of its activities.” The Shaw job won?...
...Ur’s attitude towards the differences between actors and techies, the butt of many jokes within the theater world, reflects a unifying approach: “Anyone who comes to help out (with a show) is part of the family, whether they also act or only like building stuff,” he writes...
...having registered users make predictions. Joseph K. Green ’05 and Andrew H. Golis ’05, who is a former Crimson columnist, created the website as an interactive platform designed to consolidate the vast amount of knowledge about the elections. “The general approach has always been to look to experts in D.C. for predictions about the elections and we thought it would be really interesting to have people come up with them on their own and share them with their friends,” Golis said. In its first day, the website attracted...