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Finding a job in the investment world was always going to be easy for Navroz Udwadia, a second-year student at Harvard Business School and a former Rhodes scholar. But what made him stand out was not just his brain; it was that he had grown up in Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," he says. Four of them offered him jobs. One, refusing to wait for him even to graduate, gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks in his spare time...
...latest American Idol? Wrong! Dragons' Den is a program about money for sale. Five wealthy venture capitalists take pitches from hungry entrepreneurs, who try to persuade the moneybags to invest in businesses ranging from fashion to toys to furniture. The VCs finger stacks of money like countinghouse kings while they grill the hopefuls, causing more squirm and humiliation than The Office...
CHRIS: Well, for starters, you’re right—I’m convinced that there’s stuff lost in the commercial process; the trappings of the music establishment, of those who own studios and invest money in your up-and-coming punky-jumpy-dance stage presences, do nothing to promote the kind of liminal experimentation that continually advances, and in fact limit it: it’s been proven time and again that what’s familiar sells almost as well as sex. That’s the flaw of your Jack Johnsons...
...combat this quality problem, the CEA should also encourage Harvard to invest money to improve on its existing summer study-abroad programs, to create more Harvard-sanctioned term time study abroad programs, and to establish partnerships with elite schools and institutions around the world. One of the CEA recommendations is that Harvard science departments work to develop opportunities at laboratories and field stations around the world—the same should be said for all the Harvard departments. Harvard currently has a villa in Italy and a laboratory in Chile (and a forest in New Zealand). More property would...
...passing Social Security reform: "I'm stunned how hard is it move the general public on something as simple as being allowed to invest some of your own money. If we can't get this done, how in the world are we to work on the benefit side in the future...