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Stock options are another Buffett hot button. While that Sun Valley conference was under way last summer, Coke's board voted to begin treating the options it grants to executives and other employees as an expense that reduces reported earnings--which is how Buffett and increasingly others say they ought to be accounted for. Coke was just the third large company to make the change, preceded years earlier by Boeing and Winn-Dixie Stores. Since Coke made the move, about 150 others have piled on. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is widely expected to begin requiring such treatment of stock...
...than 40 years, has shown that although it's easy to become infected with a cold virus, about 25% of those who get infected suffer few if any symptoms. For whatever reason, their bodies do not go overboard fending off a viral attack. That suggests to him that you ought to be able to stop the virus and damp down the immune system without causing any major side effects and that any cure has to consist of a combination of drugs...
...stamp. The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) claims preregistration could lead to far-reaching improvements in multiple aspects of student life—from shortening the coursepack line to increasing the quality of section leaders to alleviating Harvard’s advising woes. But each of these expansive claims ought to be independently scrutinized. Undergraduates have expressed overwhelming disapproval of Kirby’s proposal, not because they do not understand the potential benefits of predicting enrollment figures, but because they see the many flaws and shortcomings of such a quick-fix solution. If Harvard is serious about addressing some...
There are several worthwhile reforms that Harvard could institute to improve the process. First, and most important, departments ought to make use of TF hiring coordinators to better estimate enrollment numbers—by surveying student interest, as some departments do for tutorials, and better employing the vast amount of enrollment data available. Currently only a handful of departments employ such coordinators—and the coordinators are often underutilized in the ones that do. As a result, only the Core Office—which employs centralized planning—guarantees TF teaching jobs far in advance. Departments ought...
Second, the entire University ought to streamline, standardize and computerize the TF hiring process. Centralizing the job search will allow professors and TFs to find one another much more easily. Standardizing the process would better enable TFs to apply “conditionally” for multiple positions at the same time—allowing them to rank preferences and get the best teaching job they...