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...performance is very much an unknown,” Mendillo says. “But we know that eventually things will improve, and the way we have the portfolio positioned—the set of strategies, the mix of investments—we know that we’ll benefit from that improvement.”LURED TO FINANCESeated in her office beside HMC’s expansive main trading floor, Mendillo says that her current post represents “the pinnacle of the career path” that she has pursued for the past 25 years...
...might have reason to worry about unequal access to enhancement, but it is unclear that greater restrictiveness is the right way to combat this problem. When only athletes willing to bend the rules and students with the money to get their hands on an Adderall prescription can benefit, then inequality results. But if we instead work to make enhancement available to all, we create a level playing field—only this one is several rungs higher than the old, unenhanced version. (This logic led the equality-loving John Rawls to conclude that genetic engineering was a boon...
...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...
...This finding has been described as the “Hedonistic Paradox”, which states that those who seek happiness for their own benefit often find themselves disappointed, whereas those who seek to improve the well-being of others may have a greater likelihood of being happy themselves. Research shows that those who are altruistic and selfless often have higher levels of happiness. Psychologists Ed Diener and Pelin Kesebir write, “Happiness appears to bring out the best in humans, making them more social, more cooperative, and even more ethical.” These findings are consistent...
...acting in an ethical manner” as a sacrifice—in which wealth is exchanged for virtue—but rather as an opportunity for gain through happiness. Ethical behavior (just like unethical behavior) can be born of self-interest. For everyone’s benefit, publicizing these findings from positive psychology might be just as important as oaths...