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...under the assumption that it was an affiliate of the University. Shortly after gaining control of the stake, Charlesbank attempted to invoke a clause in the original purchase agreement to force Blinds to Go to buy back its shares at a price based on a previously agreed upon formula. But Blinds to Go used the formula and estimated the value of the shares to be much lower than what Charlesbank had expected to receive. That prompted the firm to sue the Canadian company, accusing it of intentionally undervaluing the holdings. Blinds to Go then accused Harvard of improperly transferring...
...feeling women—who have broken the glass ceiling, had their perfect children, built their Barbie dream home, and still have amazing social lives and fabulous shoes—are supposed to be the role models to whom I look up, but even they are dissatisfied and depressed upon turning 43. Where the fuck are we supposed to go from here...
...conversation touched upon the absence of a salary cap in baseball and the negotiation of famously lucrative player contracts. Boras is well-known for negotiating the highest paying contract in baseball history, a ten-year, $252 million contract for New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez...
Open standards bear a large part of the responsibility for the success of the computer and the Internet. Because the rules for HTML were agreed upon on back in the early ’90s and made publicly available, the standard was quickly supported on a variety of computer platforms which were otherwise not interoperable. This meant that content producers could create consistently formatted information and distribute it broadly, and so the web was born...
Economist Juliet Schor, who at the First Parish Church conceded to being incredibly afraid to enter a Harvard classroom, articulates upon ideas of family spending and leisure time in “Global Values 101.” Her ultimate message to students: “Do not sell your soul for some purpose. Do something that you really believe is really right...