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Thomas Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center—a nonprofit research group that specializes in the Federal Reserve—said that the Bush administration may be reluctant to choose Feldstein because of the administration’s desire to distance itself from anything that might be seen as corporate scandal...
According to a recent report in the New York Times, Feldstein—president and CEO of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)—was one of several AIG directors to receive a donation from the Starr Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is chaired by former AIG chairman and CEO Maurice R. Greenberg. Greenberg was forced out of his position at AIG when revelations of the improper accounting practices first came to light in February...
...writing about "the problem that has no name," after she surveyed several hundred of her Smith classmates and found that most of them were unhappy in middle age. "If they had a midlife crisis, they didn't talk about it," says Jane Glenn Haas, founder of WomanSage, a nonprofit group that supports midlife women. "Women today realize that their mothers never had a sense of their options." Haas, now 67, shocked her family when she left her first husband 27 years ago. "They said to me, 'Why are you doing this?' I said, 'I'm not happy.' My mother said...
...central changes going on in the world is that the public’s business is being done not only by the public sector, but also by the nonprofit and private sector,” Ellwood said. “I think that the work of the Center for Business and Government is absolutely vital and central to the mission of the Kennedy School and to advancing the public interest around the world...
...year ago, I was working in Peru with a nonprofit in an attempt to rein in the country’s frenzy of illegal logging. Much of the work was productive and engaging; we motored down obscure Amazonian tributaries, held press conferences with indigenous leaders, and plead for support from American diplomats-cum-drug warriors...