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Since the first “Harry Potter” book was released in 1997, the seven-part series has sold more than 375 million copies, making Rowling, by some calculations, wealthier than Queen Elizabeth...
...have to clearly disclose interest rates. When the Mexican microfinancier Banco Compartamos went public last year, revealing its loans carried rates of about 86% annually, the development consortium Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and others scorned it for having put shareholders ahead of clients. Says Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO of CGAP: "There is some risk that the mainstreaming of microfinance will threaten the very essence of microfinance's core mission: to help poor people lead better lives." At a time when governments, financial institutions and investors are paying more attention to the developing world, the microfinance revolution illustrates...
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti is Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and John A. and Elizabeth Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...showing could not push the Black and White first varsity to the Grand Final at NCAAs, however, as Radcliffe finished fourth in its semifinal heat and was relegated to the Petite Final, where the Black and White finished first to take seventh place overall.—Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...Hoopes Prize winner Elizabeth B. David ’08 said she credited her adviser, history professor David R. Armitage, “100 percent” for her success. “He pushed me to find the argument, to pull out my own ideas and not bury them in historiography,” she said...