Word: roles
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...retrospect, however, it is not surprising that the chapters of my life when I was a soldier and when I attended Harvard Business School are connected. Harvard, after all, has always played an instrumental role in protecting this nation...
...orient their campaigns around the issue of economic redistribution. There was a strong sense that poverty and extreme inequality were detrimental to citizens’ participation in social life. In terms of this dimension of social development, theorists and policy-makers over the last generation have debated the role of state versus market-oriented development...
...contrast to both the state administrators supported by traditional Keynesians and the entrepreneurs favored by economic libertarians, contemporary innovators of redistribution emphasize the role of the public as a third actor in shaping economic life. One example that they often point to is the participatory budgetary process of the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil. The process, which was first implemented in 1989, encouraged all citizens to take part in constructing the city’s budget. Over the past two decades, thousands of citizens have participated annually in formulating the municipality’s economic priorities...
Earlier this year, the University rallied around relief efforts in Haiti, in large part driven by the work of Professor Paul E. Farmer, whose non-profit Partners In Health played a key role in providing health care for victims of January’s earthquake...
...report, titled “Educational Endowments and the Financial Crisis: Social Costs and Systemic Risks in the Shadow Banking System” states that university endowments that engaged in high-risk investments “played a role in magnifying certain systemic risks in the capital markets...