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...worst ever. The Dow industrials fell a record 18%, with the NASDAQ down 15% and the S&P 500 off 18%, as the crisis that has been roiling debt markets finally slopped over to equities in full force. The euphoria of the last hour of trading on Friday - when major markets turned positive and then ended the day only slightly down, with the Dow dropping a relatively modest 128 points, to 8,451.19 - hardly offset the terror of a rambunctious 700-point drop in the Dow at the opening bell. Events were so overwhelming that when the cost...
...opportunity to look towards the future. “The real challenge for us is that we’re trying to set down a research agenda that will look good 50 years from now,” McFarlan said. “We wanted to tease out the major themes and then recruit the best speakers from around the world to address them,” McFarlan said. “We want future generations to feel that we basically had our fingers on the major societal trends and aspects of doing business,” McFarlane added...
...month later, Thomas McGuire, a health economics professor at Harvard Medical School and one of the journal’s editors, responded to the critique, asking for “major modifications” regarding claims of the industry influence on the study’s results. A back-and-forth exchange ensued, and Light soon hired a lawyer, Alan C. Milstein. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Health economics journals are a major conduit for legitimizing industry-supported studies to justify high prices for prescription drugs,” said Light, who published an article in the Harvard Health Policy Review earlier this year detailing his experience with the journal...
...don’t know if you’ve paid attention to what names get put on buildings,” he said. “It’s usually people who have given a lot of money for the construction or major political figures after they’re deceased—I’m neither...