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...Evans, treasurer and vice president for finance at Wellesley College, where Mendillo managed the endowment for six years before she took over HMC’s executive position last summer. “Her ability to synthesize a huge collection of data and make it understandable to a lay audience, as well as a sophisticated audience, is remarkable.” While she has been at Harvard in this position for less than a year—she took up the post on July 1, right before markets began plummeting—Mendillo has no shortage of experience managing...
...LAY OFF THOSE LAYOFFS
...rural Africa are also painfully slow, especially for the women who prepare the meals. In order to serve a meal of nsima (maize), African women must first spend a season planting, weeding, harvesting, and storing their corn, then they must strip it, then winnow it, then soak it, then lay it out to dry, then carry it to a grinder or pound it by hand, then dry it again, and then finally—after walking to gather fuel wood and water—build a fire and cook...
...rest. Doing so, I noticed that the cascade of piles on my desk told the physical story of what I had just done. On one side stood three shelves of books and a plastic bag full of field notes and collected articles: my raw material. Next to that lay a heap of notecards and a folder jammed with typescript drafts covered in edits and marginalia: my shopfloor assemblies. At the far end sat two neat stacks of the printed final copy, bound and totalized: the finished consumer good...
...Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...