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...program, which caters to a variety of interests, mostly creative. We were assigned to stay at the homes of various Harvard alums throughout Los Angeles. Each morning we assembled at a central location in West Hollywood where a motorcoach would pick us up and take us to the myriad destinations...
...status quo say that such bloated pay provides managers--particularly CEOs--with incentives crucial to high performance. Those defenders have not yet read Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay Without Performance. The authors marshal a formidable arsenal of facts to pick apart the incentives argument, exposing myriad ways in which CEOs have decoupled pay from performance and hidden that fact from investors with the aid of supine corporate directors. The lucidly argued treatise frames the issue not in ethical terms but as a problem of efficiency. As for solutions, Bebchuk and Fried maintain that board directors should...
...because nobody told me anything [about all the conditions] up front." The joy that millions will feel when they find prepaid cards in their Christmas stockings --retailers estimate that consumers will spend some $17 billion on them this season--could turn into misery if they don't understand the myriad rules, fees and conditions attached...
Once Fee arrived at Harvard, she delved into a myriad of extracurricular activities. A CityStep teacher throughout her four years at Harvard, she served on the executive board during her junior year. “CityStep sucks you in,” Fee acknowledges, “but it’s great to have a diverse group of people who become so bonded...
...what should replace Harvard’s Core curriculum. More troubling, however, the Faculty seemed daunted by the still-ambiguous nature—even after so many months—of the proposals on the table. The Committee on General Education has done an admirable job grappling with the myriad competing theories of general education, but it seems to have squandered its time this semester when it should have been attempting to put these abstract visions into practical proposals...