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...pursuing careers in business. A significant handful are plagued by doubts about the integrity of their career choice, having been bamboozled by some peers into believing that they are "selling out." Many on this campus paint investment bankers, management consultants and indeed the entire capitalist business system as socially irresponsible, and plead with seniors to take up "responsible" careers that will benefit the 1.3 billion chronically poor of the world. I would like to echo this impassioned plea to ask yourselves what kind of career will really improve the world for these people, and for others...
...what does America owe its prosperity? Why are so many more Angolan girls malnourished and so many more Bolivians homeless than are Americans? Precisely because the capitalist business system in America is well-designed and works efficiently. Joe goes to a supermarket in America, for a relatively low price buys vegetables in a tamperproof package with nutrition labels, comes home and pops it in his microwave and enjoys a healthy meal...
...millionaire Christopher F. O. Gabrielli '81, a venture capitalist, and Marjorie O'Neill Clapprood, a former state legislator-cum-talk show host...
...November 1996 University officials announced the $15 million dollar gift of New York venture capitalist Sidney R. Knafel '52 to Harvard's $2.1 billion dollar capital campaign. Knafel, who chairs the visiting committee to the Center for International Affairs, earmarked the money for the construction of a center for government and international studies, a project that would relocate the government, economics and other social science departments to a unified campus location...
...then we'll know whether this fall's Palace surge is a fad or a genuine paradigm shift, the Net's first step toward the three-dimensional virtual world that cyberpunk writers have envisioned for years. Imagine the capitalist dreams that cheap bandwidth and visual communities the size of shopping malls might fulfill: try-it-on Gaps; virtual town halls; online nightclubs with live video and sound. "I'm not sure that even the guys at E.C. know what the Palace's future is," says Foley. Like the Web browser before it, the Palace has a chance to become that...