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This sort of thinking is already familiar to much of corporate America. For globalized companies, risk comes from all directions--contaminated products from China, terrorist attacks on facilities in the Middle East, Katrina- and Ike-size weather events at home--which has led to the rise of what the consultants call enterprise risk management. The level of risk a company is willing to take is articulated by the board of directors, and then measures of risk taken are gathered and fed up to the highest levels of management...
...class’s small size is not without benefits...
...last night. An undergraduate-heavy crowd, snacking on pizza and free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, watched CNN’s coverage of the election at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. Below the forum’s big screen, life-size cut-outs of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stood next to a map showing the states each candidate had won—the Obama cut-out posed for substantially more photo ops over the course of the evening. Before the results had even begun to trickle in, CNN attracted...
...Corner’s future attractions. The hallmark of the new changes to the plan for Allston is a focus on sustainability. Along with these beneficial green spaces, the new plans even call for a garden and orchard to be sown on the Allston property. While the size and food output of these projects may be still in the works, this array of sustainable symbols is a great way to set an example for Allston and beyond. Harvard does well in proposing these changes following its sustainability week, showing it is not just advocating, but acting. Intersections between the aspirations...
...allies ensures that the conservative movement will have to sit in a circle, hold hands, light some incense and figure out what its members really believe in when it comes to putting their principles into practice. The legacy of a President who vastly expanded the national debt, the size of government and its reach into what was once called private enterprise is likely to haunt his party for a generation to come...