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Less than eight years after amassing over 2,000 square miles of forest land, Harvard will sell two-thirds of its holdings in the United States and New Zealand—a combined area larger than Rhode Island—to the Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the Boston-based investment firm announced Wednesday...
Harvard owns the properties—or, in some cases, just the rights to use the lands—in order to plant trees and later cut them down and sell them as timber...
Some firms were quicker than others to regard women as executive timber. In his latest book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Management Expert Peter Drucker reports that New York's Citibank was one of the first major companies to go after female M.B.A.s, in the 1970s. Recruiters who were sent out in search of the best male graduates in finance and marketing began reporting back to headquarters that many of the best graduates were women, not men. The bank told them simply to hire the best...
...designed housing the old-fashioned way, comfortably dense, with a pleasantly irregular street grid and just enough stylistic variation. The basic model is an adapted Craftsman bungalow, circa 1920, but a buyer of a one-story house can mix and match from among four brick porches and four compatible timber gable ends...
...While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses-there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves-few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehousecompany.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows...