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...with any activity at Harvard, the Ceramic Micro-Enterprise Project must compete for sutdents’ time. “One of the challenges is competing with other student groups, because Harvard students are busy,” says David J. Tischfield ’09, who is helping with the development of the project...
...began the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project, which proposes to help the people of La Prusia produce traditional clay products in an effort to support the local economy. The charity calls on Harvard students to help in all aspects of the program: from community development to field work, testing clay materials and designing prototype options for village production...
...It’s a way of producing something to help them make money,” Sáenz-Badillos says of the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project. “The most important part of the program is how to sell what they produce so they can make a profit and be motivated to continue...
...recession by anticipating recovery in the same way their fears of economic slowing accelerate the arrival of that very crunch," Touati says. "Right now, a lot of the medicine for a remedy for long-term recovery is already out there, but markets are in such a micro-short-term speculative mode they aren't taking it. That's what has driven share prices of many fundamentally sound companies so low that investors willing to take a risk now will make a killing in the longer term...
...doing mass loan modifications? I came to it as a consumer issue. In 2001 [Senator] Paul Sarbanes asked me to read this HUD/Treasury report on predatory lending. I was pretty appalled. I was convinced that there was a real problem, but we thought it was more from a micro-consumer standpoint. Something national and systemic - I don't think that ever entered any of our thoughts. We put together a group of industry people and consumer groups to develop some best practices. We had to rely on voluntary measures because the regulatory community and the Hill just weren't going...