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...Habashy and her colleagues—two close friends who are also from Harvard—have initially selected designers through word-of-mouth research, professors at design schools, and fashion writers and editors to identify under-the-radar creators who would benefit from participating. In the future, TheCultivate.com team plans to create an application process for designers...
...more modest scale, Harvard students have suggested growing vegetables at an Allston farm. Junior faculty members have expressed interest in reasonably priced new housing, and graduates of HBS and others could benefit from affordable incubator office space close to campus...
...overwhelmingly consumer-driven and people need to have jobs to feel like it's once again safe to spend money. It's a classic chicken-or-egg problem. Direct hiring by the government could, theoretically, sidestep the impasse. The question then becomes whether such a program creates more economic benefit than it does economic inefficiency by having the government dictate job creation. Consider that one criticism of the WPA was that it prevented people from moving to jobs where they would have been more economically productive - and actually slowed down the post-Depression recovery...
...there--while saving money without adversely affecting health. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to screen for breast cancer, for example, isn't necessary for the vast majority of women who are at low risk of the disease; because most tumors are not aggressive, most women will not benefit from finding the first signs of tiny tumors that an MRI can detect...
...willing to extend a red carpet toward the globetrotting Chinese. Although political strings might not come with Beijing's cash, there are economic catches. The roads, mines and other infrastructure on offer are most often built by armies of imported Chinese labor, cutting down on the net financial benefit to recipient nations. Chinese companies investing abroad also tend to ship in nearly everything used on building sites, from packs of dehydrated noodles to the telltale pink-hued Chinese toilet paper. It's not only the contracted Chinese workers who show up, either. Within a few years, their relatives invariably seem...