Word: non
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This group defends its choices on a variety of non-monetary grounds. They cite a challenging work environment, bright peers, the opportunity for advancement based on merit and a steep learning curve. They complain that the public sector is often the opposite: slow, inefficient and full of people who are unambitious and overly bureaucratic. They see career options like teaching and non-profit work as insufficiently influential and somehow less "professional...
...challenge the future I-bankers and consultants in the Class of 1999 to break the cycle. Join a non-profit and use those management skills honed at that summer consulting position to save valuable dollars. Take a government job, and show your co-workers how to write reports in four hours instead of four weeks. Become an educator and show your students there are still some teachers who can pass the standardized tests they are expected to pass...
...like any of these options, invent your own. If you want to be innovative, start your own non-profit or socially-responsible company. You will learn a lot more trying to implement your own ideas than you will researching other people's. Maybe then, when your children come to Harvard, consulting and I-banking will be the exception and not the rule...
...probably unwise to label a non-league mid-season game a must-win, but a 1-4 record heading into the Ivy home stretch won't get the Crimson many respectful looks across the league...
...prolific author, Galbraith has written numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including what many consider to be the definitive study of the 1929 economic crash...