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...students, the economic downturn has caused anxiety about the present and the future. Many undergraduates who once took for granted that their summer plans would include a high-paying internship in finance or management consulting have been forced to reconsider their futures??not only is recruitment of students down this year, but many have also started to doubt the viability of pursuing a career in these once stable industries altogether. Even seniors with full-time offers from banks and consulting firms are feeling the effects of the downturn: Companies are currently offering some members of the class...
...development last night in the Barker Center as part of “20 Questions with Tarun Khanna,” an interdisciplinary lecture. Khanna, a professor at Harvard Business School, recently completed a book entitled “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures??and Yours.” He discussed his research for about 20 minutes and then fielded questions from MIT economics professor Abhijit Banerjee, Boston University history professor Merle Goldman, Harvard Kennedy School professor Rohini Pande, and audience members. Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center...
Though many in the financial community have viewed Lieberman’s attacks as political posturing—particularly his proposal to bar institutional investors, firms with more than $500 million under management, from trading energy or agricultural futures??both major presidential candidates have echoed Lieberman’s criticisms of speculators in recent days as consumers have continued to feel the adverse effects of high oil and food prices...
...popular: government, economics, biology, or social studies. But a fraction of undergraduates will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures??even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away, a fuzzy telephone connection between India and Cambridge provides a glimpse into the life of one Harvard graduate whose choice of concentration was as unconventional as her current occupation.Meghan C. Howard...
...both tough and flirtatious.With such a strong first act, Act II is a bit of an anticlimax, except for the trio “Nevermind the Why and Wherefore.” Polk, Hill, and Forbess match each other in jolly satisfaction, as they plot out their romantic futures??and it’s delightful to watch them gleefully dance together.The only downside is the lack of leading roles for women—but that’s unavoidable coming from Victorian England. Costume designer Casey M. Lurtz ’07 draws attention to these neglected ladies...