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While B-School professors acknowledge that the case method is less ideal for teaching highly quantitative fields, they maintain that it still proves valuable even in such areas as accounting and finance. Since these topics do not lend themselves to the case method as easily as business policy does, professors at most business schools are often left to decide whether lectures, cases or a mixed approach will work best for their courses...
Harvard is not the Love Boat. An educational institution that boasts of more than 50 different libraries and has an annual "Computer Fair" does not easily lend itself to romance. But all is not yet lost. After conducting an extensive pseudo-scientific survey, I have determined that there are places on campus to find that special someone, if you know where to look...
...arrive at such a sorry state? Traditionally, running a thrift was a relatively tranquil business. S & L managers used to follow what was known as the 3-6-3 rule: pay depositors 3%, lend money at 6% and tee up at the golf course by 3 p.m. When interest rates remained stable, the strategy worked well. But by the late 1970s, thrifts began steadily losing depositors to the new money-market funds, which were not covered by deposit insurance and paid higher interest rates...
Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said she attributed the store's demise to its location in Holyoke Center's arcade, which does not lend itself easily to "walk-through" business...
...does lend perspective, especially to a son of Connemara. "There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. But today I'm quite at home wandering those valleys and occasionally climbing a peak." So does he regret anything? "No." An actor's delicious pause. "Well, sure. I'm not a French singer...