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...absence of a reversal from within the U.S itself, Naudé says about the only thing the European Central Bank can do to undercut the dollar's slump is lower its own interest rates to create a degree of inflation to counterbalance any further rise in the euro's value. But that does nothing to undercut its appreciation outside the euro zone...
...base of the pyramid” of Filipino society. Rangan said in an e-mail that Zobel and his brother moved the family’s business “decisively in the direction of improving the lives of the millions of Filipinos who are lower income or even below the poverty line...primarily because it also makes good business sense.” For example, Rangan said, more than one million poor residents of eastern Manila now buy clean drinking water from one of Ayala’s subsidiaries. HBS Dean Jay O. Light on Thursday presented Zobel with...
...most effective pick-up lines, this classic phrase was recently put to the test—literally. A study conducted by researchers in the Departments of Anthropology at Harvard University, McMaster University, and Florida State University found that men with deep voices wield greater reproductive abilities. Translation? Dudes with lower voices might get more girls. FM set out to confirm this study, using a more familiar tribe. Fifteen female students listened to four equally handsome hunks try to get in their pants via a voice recording, and then attempted to match the boys’ pictures to their sultry tenors...
...Richard P. Chait, professor of higher education at the Graduate School of Education, notes that opting for senior scholars rather than junior faculty for tenured positions can potentially lower morale among the younger set. “ If you tenure from outside,” he says, “from the vantage point of junior faculty it can feel as if someone is cutting in line ahead...
...income backgrounds may also seek financial assistance from their respective colleges—the Harvard Financial Aid Office, for example, provides aid in the form of loans. There’s no reason that students should have to take out additional loans, however, when medical schools could simply lower their application fees, or, at the very least, be more generous in giving waivers...