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...hand, we have Harvard, Inc.—Harvard as global brand, Harvard as multi-billion dollar investor, Harvard as a king of real estate on both sides of the Charles River. Over the last decade, the Corporation and its managers, equating financial growth with Harvard’s “educational mission,” have managed to transform whole portions of the University into the spitting image of a for-profit big business...
...Backed by an international marketing campaign, Sentosa Cove homes are nearly sold out-more than half of the buyers are foreigners-and are generating a little bit of buzz that is music to the ears of the city fathers. When Hong Kong housewife and property investor Betty Ling first saw advertisements for Sentosa Cove three years ago, her Singaporean friends warned her "only ghosts live there." But she says she chose to buy in Singapore instead of Bali or Phuket because, "It's an international city and you have all the infrastructure of city life. You can feel safe there...
...Knight-Ridder in particular gained a reputation for improving the properties it bought. But with profits under severe pressure from the Internet, Wall Street has turned the screws. Knight-Ridder was sold off and busted up last year; Tribune, which bought Times Mirror in 2000, was acquired by vulture investor Sam Zell in April...
...spend our lives "engaged in small talk, focusing on the known," while Black Swans-- dramatic, unpredictable events--shape the course of history, says mathematical investor turned philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Sept. 11, World War I and the Wall Street crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable." A follow-up to his Fooled by Randomness, about the role chance plays in life, The Black Swan is a provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and The Tipping Point. Taleb draws on history, philosophy...
Among economists, a popular view is the “Efficient Market Hypothesis” (EMH), which argues that all stocks are correctly valued by the market. By the time any small investor gets a hold of market-moving information, the opportunity to profit will have passed, the theory says...