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...class ring drama. Last Sunday, the council had an extensive debate on whether to give one ring company an exclusive deal on Harvard class rings. The proposal passed, so next year’s council representatives will likely be hawking class rings on behalf of a large, for-profit company. Granted, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)—the official ring vendor of the original bill, and now likely to be the one chosen by the council—is itself nonprofit. But it will almost certainly be contracting the ring-making out to a company that will reap large...
First opened in 1927, the store at 6 Plympton St. was once a haunt of famous poets like e. e. cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg. It is currently one of only two for-profit poetry-only bookstores left in the country...
Panel discussions often spilled over into the halls and ranged from more traditional sessions on topics like micro-finance to newer issues such as social marketing—in both non-profit and for-profit sectors...
...Despite technological advances that make surrogacy safer and more reliable, Japan's conservative health-care establishment remains against it, partly out of fear that some women might become for-profit baby factories. "For safety and welfare reasons, the human body should not be used as a tool for reproduction," said Tomoko Kashiwagi of the Health Ministry. The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposes the practice in part due to the potential for "complication of family relationships." The ministry, meanwhile, is pushing for an outright ban. Women with reproductive dysfunction, says Kashiwagi, may simply "have to give up on biological...
Deutsche Bank is recruiting corporate investors for its pioneering for-profit microcredit venture by pointing to its successful four-year trial run with a private donor-backed fund. Both funds seek to lend credibility--in the form of hard-currency collateral--so that MFIs can establish relationships with local banks and get better loan rates. Likewise, Citigroup has used its branches in places like Kenya to make local-currency loans to MFIs, with the hope that conservative local banks will follow suit...