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...pursuit of wealth, morality no longer seems so difficult when we change the goal to be the pursuit of happiness instead. Perhaps the best way to encourage ethical behavior among MBAs is not to frame “acting in an ethical manner” as a sacrifice??in which wealth is exchanged for virtue—but rather as an opportunity for gain through happiness. Ethical behavior (just like unethical behavior) can be born of self-interest. For everyone’s benefit, publicizing these findings from positive psychology might be just as important as oaths...
...Despite the looming threat of being called back to serve—Parker said he joined the reserves knowing that “it’s about the sacrifice??—he talks about the transition from the frontline to the lab in an upbeat tone...
Despite whatever sacrifices going abroad may entail—and Lesnikowski say it’s “definitely a sacrifice??—students who have studied abroad usually praise their experiences. Stefan A. Zebrowski-Rubin ’08 credits his experience in Italy as instrumental in helping him develop a senior thesis topic. More importantly, however, he wrote in an e—mail that “study abroad gave me an education I could never have received at Harvard. I grew as a person, struggling through cultural transitions, linguistic difficulties and plain...
...journal article “Altars of Sacrifice?? debunks the “the story of Confederate women’s unflinching loyalty” to the South in the Civil War. The story, she acknowledges, “fit neatly with an emergent twentieth-century feminist historiography.” But it fit poorly with reality. Faust found that women were more subversive than supportive in the Civil War South. In the process, she fastidiously picked apart a fish story that had so-called “feminist" scholars hooked...
...Perhaps it was taken out because how big this “sacrifice?? will be is still anyone’s guess. It could be the cost of new windows (unlikely) or a multi-million dollar, multi-pronged effort by the entire University (likely). Thus, by forcing students to make a choice without the relevant costs, and insisting that the referendum contain specific propositions that will have specific costs to implement, the environmentalists have made a “yes” vote on their own referendum illogical; support for an undefined sacrifice is not much...