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Right now, the companies in the S&P 500 are trading at an average price-to-forward-earnings (P/E) ratio of 8.4. That means investors are willing to pay $8.40 for every dollar that analysts expect companies to earn in 2009. Because that ratio historically falls in the mid- to...
The hype was unprecedented for a Harvard pep rally. The College Events Board (CEB) had arranged for the hit DJ Girl Talk to perform. Students eagerly anticipated his live show, legendary among music fans, at the end of the pep rally, which was supposed to arouse excitement for the weekend?...
Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy announced early yesterday morning that this year will be their last as the gatekeepers of the College’s most phonetically unfriendly House. The announcement, although not entirely unexpected, was met with a wave of nostalgia from students close to the...
Corporations that want to support sustainability should encourage their employees to make changes on a personal level, environmentalist and consultant Adam Werbach said in a discussion at Harvard Business School yesterday. In his lecture to a few dozen students, Werbach said he came to this revelation after Wal-Mart contacted...
But perhaps the most extraordinary turn has been his recent conversion to the cause of full independence for Tibet - standing apart from both his father and the Dalai Lama. Thirty years of negotiation have been fruitless, he says, and China has not made any effort to acknowledge the demands of...