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...world’s fastest growing markets will take center stage this Saturday as Harvard Business School hosts its 10th annual Latin American Conference. The conference, hosted by the Club Latinoamericano at the Business School, will feature eight panel discussions with elite Latin American business leaders. The panels will focus on Latin America’s presence in fields like energy, real estate, and private equity, while also addressing the current macroeconomic status of the region. Alejandro Rocha, an MBA candidate and one of two co-chairs for the conference, cited a number of reasons for hosting the event, including...
...issue with these alternative benchmarks is not whether they have merit (most do) but whether they can be measured with anything like the frequency, reliability and impartiality of GDP. A National Academy of Sciences panel recommended in 2005 that the U.S. look into measuring household work, investments in education and health care and environmental assets--but as satellite accounts, not part of GDP. Says Katharine Abraham, a University of Maryland professor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, who headed up that effort: "One problem with these expanded measures--why I wouldn't want to see them replace...
...Lyons, where we parked in a strip mall to drink at Oskar Blues, a brewery--restaurant-country bar that is one of the few craft breweries that can their beer, claiming it stays fresher than it does in a bottle because light never gets in (a New York Times panel of critics named Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That means they're high alcohol (up to 10.5%, compared with 5% for a Coors) and have wads of hops--the green, pinecone...
...experts assembled to comment on “The Wire” and on the American drug trade included Boston Police Department deputy superintendent Nora Baston, Columbia sociologist Sudhir A. Venkatesh, and Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone. But the star of the panel was Simon himself, the creator and executive producer of “The Wire”.Simon began by speaking about the production and critical issues of the show, including economics, the policies of the drug war, and the harsh realities of urban life in Baltimore...
...entire inquest that he had not seen "a shred of evidence" to prove that the Duke of Edinburgh or the British intelligence service were behind the crash, so he was legally obliged not to offer "staged accident" as a possible verdict. But even with murder off the table, the panel decided to assign responsiblity for the death...