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...remain in a dismal financial landscape, but also to take advantage of investment opportunities that may emerge as the storm calms in coming years.With only a month to go until the end of the fiscal year, Mendillo says she is quite certain that the projection of a 30 percent drop in the endowment, originally formulated in October, will hold. But despite the drop, she says she is confident that her team will find ways to use the crisis to Harvard’s advantage.“The time period in which we’re going to see improvement...
...usually looking for their first full-time jobs—were able to find work this year than in the recent past.In this year’s Crimson survey of over 500 seniors, 59 percent of those seeking employment said that they currently have a job lined up, a drop from 66 percent in 2008 and 73 percent in 2007.The economic slump will also impact the support Harvard provides to undergraduates—OCS, the Advising Programs Office, and the Bureau of Study Counsel are all either reorganizing their programs or, in some cases, cutting back due to the financial...
...professors on the committee vested with implementing the College’s first curricular overhaul in 30 years, science professor John Huth does not take his obligations lightly. One morning this spring, he had to drop his daughter off at school, take his car to the mechanic, bike to his office, and change into a dress shirt there, all by 8:30 a.m.—to make it to a General Education committee meeting, where he would help hammer out course proposals for an hour and a half. It’s behind-the-scenes labors like these that...
...Kennedy School graduates who plan to enter the private sector is not yet available, Ellwood said. According to Rotberg, more Kennedy School students this year are turning to the public sector due to the economy. Last year, 35 percent of HKS graduates entered the private sector, a drop from the 41 percent that joined the private sector in 2007. According to Ellwood, many Kennedy School students enter the private sector due to large salary differences, doubts about future opportunities within the public sector, and ineffective government recruiting. For example, private companies extend job offers far more speedily than the federal...
...other hand, the population worldwide is getting older, especially in the developed world. Globally, the UN estimates that the proportion of people aged 60 and over will double between 2000 and 2050, from 10 percent to 21 percent, and the proportion of children will drop from 30 percent to 21 percent. This change also has numerous implications, including for the “dependency ratio,” meaning that fewer young people are available to provide for the medical and economic needs of the elderly. Much less heralded, however, is the fact that war is a young person?...