Word: outlook
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...deleverage the portfolio. While various media reports have called attention to Harvard’s attempts to sell large portions of its private equity portfolio at the height of the financial crisis, Kaplan notes that HMC had been preparing for such sales long before then, and that the outlook for the private equity market was already “decidedly cautious to negative” that summer.But despite these hedging strategies, financial markets continued to deteriorate through the summer and ultimately imploded that fall. On one mid-September Sunday evening, Mendillo went out to dinner with her husband to celebrate...
...When Jaeger comes to work, the people are often too many to please. “Somedays, it feels like walking through a minefield,” he remarks, adding that a utilitarian outlook is often needed to deal with a community as disparate as the University’s staffers...
...seeking to recruit courses. Kenen is still organizing papers in her office in University Hall and working out logistical issues with administrators. And Gen Ed committee members are trying their best to ramp up enthusiasm. The attitude is a shift from the Gen Ed committee’s original outlook when they first met in the fall of 2007. “As a curriculum, as a grouping of categories, it would be hard to say that anyone was genuinely excited about it,” former Gen Ed committee member Li says of the group, adding that none...
...have always felt that the mark of a good education is its capacity to raise more questions than it answers. Harvard opens our minds, broadens our outlook, and inspires our curiosity. Where once we might have been content to ask and answer a question such as, “Does global warming exist?”, today we question the merits of so-called “clean coal,” debate the costs of a gas tax vs. a cap-and-trade system, and view “organic” labels with healthy skepticism. Each broad question...
...programmers, trying to read viewers' minds, are facing the same questions politicians are: Do Americans want to confront their problems or escape them? Is the change in the U.S. strictly an economic and temporary one, or is there a deeper, lasting transformation in the country's outlook and values? Have our souls changed, or just our bank balances...