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...people in the room recognize you. And if that fails, then just try to convince someone else to be stupid with you. One sketchy person will look foolish, but two sketchy people can look like they’re having a great time. But that’s next lesson...
...Dollar Tree moving too fast? If there's one lesson from the great retail shakeout of the past year, it's that America has too many stores. Yet Dollar Tree plans to open about 80 more stores by end of year, and foresees growing to between 5,000 and 7,000 stores down the road. But will an extreme discounter like Dollar Tree suffer when the economic winds move against you? "I do think Dollar Tree is a beneficiary of people trading down," says Laura Champine, an analyst at Cowen & Co. "When the economy recovers, I believe its growth will...
...childhood in China's remote Xinjiang region, where my father, Ai Qing, had been exiled. He was a poet, not a revolutionary, but the Communist Party had no tolerance for free thinkers. So he spent years cleaning toilets, enduring beatings and public humiliation. To me, it was a lesson in how horribly humans can treat one another...
Investors have spent the past year or so relearning an important lesson: stocks are risky. From May of last year to March of this one, stocks in the U.S., as measured by the S&P 500 index, lost more than half their value. Many overseas stock markets did even worse...
While the competition has featured back and forth results for the squads in the past, the Crimson has now claimed victory for three straight years. And it appears that Harvard still has a lesson or two to teach...