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...offices, he can rest easy; his campaigns for such iconic brands as Fevicol and Cadbury are credited with changing India's advertising. "The work we've done has kind of been the leading light for the rest of the industry," says Pandey, 51. O&M agrees. Last month the firm appointed him to the company's worldwide board of directors...
...averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost any Internet firm would pass muster...
...while shirking sin sectors like tobacco, booze and gambling. Sounds good, right? Yet SRI funds are often mediocre performers, partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same as non-SRI ones," says Lloyd Kurtz, a senior portfolio manager at Nelson Capital Management and an expert in the field...
Numerous other possible requirements, which are less nebulous and divisive, are compelling alternatives to “reason and faith.” The report, for example, conspicuously neglects to recommend that students receive a firm grounding in the basic principles of economics. It is difficult to see how a general education curriculum will prepare “students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society” without giving them a basic understanding of markets. The lack of emphasis in the report on the hard sciences and mathematics—a student could conceivably graduate barely...
...person walked in and said, ‘Oh, I hear you’re being sued,’ and we said, ‘It’s not us,” recalled Michael Skikne, the owner of the Mass. Ave firm. “We don’t know anything about it except it?...