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...benefit from, or at least not be harmed by, the financial crisis. “Besides the market for HBS professors?” quipped Dean Light, who is also director of the Harvard Management Company. “Private equity firms and hedge funds will be able to pick up many of the opportunities that the more highly regulated banks will be unable to participate in,” he said. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...whether you get them back or not is really up to you. If you desperately need that blue scarf or Red Sox hat, then send a Facebook message to your partner in crime and ask them if they would kindly leave it in their door slot for you to pick up. Otherwise, consider your belongings a sacrificial parting gift...
...Wally Szczerbiak. The forward rises up and fires a high, arching three-pointer. The ball floats in the air, spinning like a rubber globe as it falls towards the hoop, kisses the back rim, and swishes gently through. Pandemonium. Unfortunately, although Harvard recruited Szczerbiak, the former NBA draft pick and Western Conference All-Star also considered attending Miami University (Ohio). He chose Ohio...
This pessimism, however, only obscures the deeper significance of this alternate history: these stories inspire our vision of the future. Without them, we could see Harvard only as it is, not as it could be. Perhaps we do not have a Heisman candidate in our backfield or a lottery pick in our backcourt, but the Szczerbiaks, the Okoyes, and the Blakes allow us to imagine, “What...
...Morgan had the opportunity to potentially pick up businesses that were extremely profitable,” Bergstresser added, “but the question then and now is whether it was worth the risk that was taken on as well as the price paid for Bear. That remains to be seen...