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...proven it can fight and win an election. Now it must prove it can govern. "Unless the DPJ truly organizes itself as a functional political party, it'll be a repeat of their last Upper House victory, which was followed by a loss," says Jun Iio of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Instead of simply shutting down the government in an effort to force Abe out, the DPJ should relax its rhetoric and let the Prime Minister continue to hang himself. They can earn public trust by forging alliances with sympathetic LDP members to set an agenda that...
...when he lost his job in a merger, Lehman invested a quarter of his $1 million nest egg in his new venture. His business did fine, growing to six stores in six years. Then, he says, a nasty falling out with his partner forced them to sell at a loss. "Damn right, it hurt," says Lehman, who lost $150,000. "But I didn't risk so much that we couldn't eat. All my life I wanted to own my own stores. Yes, it was worth...
Harvard’s endowment has been cited as a model for achieving high-growth rates, but one investment choice led to a staggering loss of at least a quarter of a billion dollars late last week after the collapse of former Harvard Management Company (HMC) bigwig Jeffrey B. Larson’s hedge fund...
Harvard’s endowment sits at $29.2 billion as of the most recently-reported figure by the University. Sowood’s collapse may have resulted in a loss of as much as $350 million for Harvard, according to The Wall Street Journal...
...have always attempted to do the very best for our investors,” Larson wrote. “A loss of this magnitude in such a short period is as devastating to us as it is to you.” —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...