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Harvard’s endowment grew $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ending June 30, reaching an all-time high of $29.2 billion, according to figures released today. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), the internal arm responsible for managing the University’s endowment, returned 16.7 percent on its investments. This year’s performance was “just above the average” for the 25 largest university endowments, HMC President Mohamed A. El-Erian wrote in his first annual “John Harvard” letter. It is down from last year?...
...Harvard Management Company (HMC), the internal arm responsible for managing the University’s endowment, returned 16.7 percent on its investments. While this year’s performance was slightly above the median return for the 25 largest university endowments, it is down from last year’s 19.2 percent return and the 21.1 percent return achieved...
Interesting? How about holy grail? Companies as diverse as Unilever and DaimlerChrysler have used neuromarketing. Viacom Brand Solutions, the commercial arm of MTV Networks, for instance, had Neurosense study how viewers digest programming and ads. It looked at nine regions of the brain that control such functions as attraction, long- and short-term memory and understanding. A counterintuitive result: commercials generated more activity in eight of those nine cortical regions than the programs did, indicating that ads register...
...acting reasonably... is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death..." The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature. The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped...
...very strong. The design feature that enables these feats is the cuff - three flat tendons that blend together like a thick leathery hood covering a bald man's head - the head in this case being the smooth cartilage-covered ball at the top of the humerus or arm bone. The cuff's unique tendons apply muscular forces which stabilize and greatly strengthen the movement of your arm. (Remember tendons are the attachments of muscles to bone - they pull...