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...annual Harvard MBA Indicator, compiled by financial consultant and HBS graduate Ray Soifer, advises investors to sell when 30 percent or more of the Business School class enters finance and encourages investors to buy if 10 percent or fewer enter the sector...
Groupon is a company that advertises a discount of up to 90 percent at a local business each day, on the condition that a minimum number of users sign up for the discount...
...year had passed since the new president’s memorable election. His approval rating was hovering precariously over 50 percent. His party held the governorships of both New Jersey and Virginia, but it was becoming increasingly likely that the opposing party would poach both offices in upcoming elections...
There is no mistaking that the two gubernatorial contests, particularly the race in New Jersey, were defined largely by local issues. In New Jersey, defeated Democratic Governor Jon Corzine carried voters citing health care as their number-one priority 78 percent to Christie’s 19 percent—quite the reverse of the referendum on health care that Rove envisioned. Voters citing parochial issues such as property taxes and corruption, on the other hand, favored Christie more than two to one. The most obvious rebuttal, however, is the fact that President Obama is still popular in New Jersey...
Johnny F. Bowman ’11, a member of SLAM and a candidate for Undergraduate Council president, proposed that professors take anonymous, voluntary pay cuts of one or two percent. Bowman said that if professors instead of administrators agreed to cuts, the symbolic and monetary impact would be greater...