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...this week, I realize that the greatest thing I hope I’ve learned from Harvard is that becoming a global citizen is not an academic endeavor. A life, no more than an education, should not be a “business” or a series of cost-benefit analyses. At Harvard, we should try to understand these prevailing currents of pre-professionalism and money-oriented careerism, not submit to them, let alone allow our university to be shaped by them. Here, we should learn how to be, not what to do.Rebecca D. O’Brien...
Instead of treating smokers as children who can’t be trusted to make basic cost-benefit decisions, society should take their choices seriously. Despite the availability of safer alternatives (patches and gum) smokers keep smoking—could it be that, gasp, they actually enjoy it? Perhaps smokers are capable of evaluating the costs of smoking—in fact, they tend to over-estimate the dangers—and simply find smoking worth the risk...
...Professor Gregory M. Barron. Barron has noticed frequent absences due to students attending recruiting events both on and off campus. “If [the administration] had more leverage over the recruiters, HBS could kick them out if they didn’t cooperate,” he says. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSISThe hours spent at both Baker Library and Grafton Street do not come cheaply for HBS students. Tuition and fees alone for the class of 2007 totaled $43,678. However, students quickly discover that their busy social lives also carry a high price tag. The high cost of living...
...great many remain at large ... we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? The cost-benefit ratio is against us! Our cost is billions against the terrorist costs of millions ... It's pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long hard slog...
...assigned one of the possible locations, which they investigated and reported back to the group at a specific meeting. And yes, there were a few European destinations included in the early rounds that didn’t quite fit the criteria listed above. But once we had a firm cost-benefit analysis of the locations in place, we chose an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas and we were ready to let loose, although our proposed escapades weren’t exactly like “Girls Gone Wild.”Even upon arriving...