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Ultimately, thinking of girls’ education as the most effective investment option in the developing world helps justify the need for both types of change using basic economic theory. Just as any good stockbroker takes care to diversify each of her portfolios, American philanthropists as a group are wise to pursue both the “Leadership Academy” and the “Local Village School” models. Within this philanthropic portfolio, the leadership academy functions as a venture investment—expensive, risky, but with the potential to pay unprecedented dividends. Such potential is attached...
...Wise, who will receive a $4,000 monetary award as part of the Fay Prize, will attend Cambridge University next year in pursuit of a M.Phil. in medieval studies...
Friends of Wise said that they are not surprised by her achievement...
...There’s no one who I’m less surprised to hear that they won,” said Ari R. Hoffman ’10, who has known Wise since their freshman year. “But there’s also no one who I think deserves it more and [better] represents what I think Harvard students should...
...would really, really love to live inside her mind,” Schlozman said of Wise. “She’s just such an interesting and quirky thinker...