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...Runs a Boston-area business consulting firm, Kirk & Associates...
...recession. Apparently, JP Licks, a competing ice-cream vendor that opened in a strategic Mass. Ave. location last summer, benefitted from financial incentives offered by Harvard University. The university owns the real estate JP Licks currently occupies, and it essentially invited the franchise in, offering the popular Boston-area chain preferential access to the space and a lease at a below-market rate. To some, such incentives smack of the sort of anti-competitive practices that have no place in a free-market system...
Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center, which provides low-income Boston-area clients with free or reduced fee lawyering and students with law practice experience, has recently seen its budget cut by roughly a third, and four of its 13 clinics have been relocated to the Law School’s Cambridge campus from Jamaica Plain.Three of the four clinics that moved in mid-August facilitate community business development and comprise the Community Enterprise Project (CEP), and the fourth aids families with children who have been exposed to family violence, according to Elaine McArdle, spokeswoman for HLS?...
...this characterization to new heights with his thesis, an original composition spanning many genres and lasting nearly an hour. Schachter undoubtedly has the artistic chops to pull off such an ambitious undertaking. He started playing the piano at age five and began to improvise and compose shortly afterward. The Boston-area native soon became interested in performing jazz, and he took composition lessons at the New England Conservatory throughout high school. When college rolled around, Schachter chose a liberal arts education at Harvard over the conservatory experience: “I never really wanted to go to a conservatory because...
...organizers. “We were happy to be able to sponsor someone with a message of proactive measures for the future,” said Ilyana M. Sawka, program coordinator of the Kennedy School’s Kokkalis Program, which runs initiatives for southeast and east-central Europe. Boston-area professionals said they appreciated Dinkic’s frankness. “It’s impressive that he is as optimistic as he is, focusing on the future,” said Kristen Rupert, executive director of the Massachusetts Alliance for International Business. Yet some left the lecture...