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...Chair of the Department of Romance Languages Luis Fernández Cifuentes said he was expecting more “leverage?? in creating new faculty positions within his department...
...Zell cited the February increase in U.S. home resales—the first in over half a year—as evidence that the decline in the price levels of single-family housing was nearing its bottom. In an earlier interview with The Crimson, Zell discussed the power of leverage??using borrowed capital to increase investment returns—as a major reason why he chose to enter real estate. “Even when I was in college, I understood the benefits of leverage,” Zell said. “If you start with...
...that it becomes extremely important to do all the business stuff.” Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise to dot-com fortune epitomizes his stated belief that success in technology is becoming increasingly accessible to individual programmers. According to Zuckerberg, that increase in individual “leverage?? heightens the possible benefit of classes like CS50. “It’s one of the reasons that I think it makes a lot of sense to be studying this stuff,” he said...
This year, we watched the earnings of the highest-paid Harvard managers go through the roof—and perhaps a dirty chimney or two—to over $107.5 million. Vocal objections from the class of 1969 followed, and were amplified by their upcoming reunion and their financial leverage??coveted contributions to the $19 billion cause that is Harvard’s endowment. The HMC, the in-house “not-for-profit” that has handled the University’s lucrative investments since 1974, proceeded to realize the error of its ways...
Sidney R. Knafel ’52 believes in leverage??in business, education and philanthropy...