Basic: 1. Why does Harvard spend so many resources managing its endowment? Why not simply invest in Treasury Bonds and be done? 2. Why this emphasis on real returns as opposed to nominal returns? 3.How does HMC form its capital market assumptions? Why don’t they use past statistics to project the future? What do HMC’s capital market assumptions imply about the forward looking domestic equity premium? How does it compare to the historical equity premium? 4.If cash has zero standard deviation
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Hacking Into Harvard Author’s Name Instructor’s Name Hacking Into Harvard According to the nonconsequentialist approach proposed by the German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ an action has moral worth if and if only‚ it stems from a sense of duty. Kantian ethics do not account for contingencies and possible consequences of actions. Moreover‚ the moral principles behind the actions must have universal applicability. In other words‚ it must be binding on all rational beings‚ irrespective
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Article Review MAS107 Viray‚ Jean Michaela Z. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms Humans want to see different creations‚ not just once. For the reason that if people saw a new creation soon everyone will basically get used to it so the public will demand for more. Not even the geniuses can push aside the topic “creativity” to the public’s eye‚ the fact that people are there to criticize the work done and artists cannot stop the words or reactions because that is what it is intended for.
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war in her article Women and the American Revolution. In using many examples of personal experiences from competent women from our country’s history‚ the author was able to bring emotion to the reader. Abigail Adams‚ Anne Eliza Bleeker‚ and Deborah Sampson were a few of these amazing women that during the woman’s movement‚ made their mark in history and consequently into Ms. Martin’s article. Much of Abigail Adams’ letters to her husband‚ John Adams‚ were cited in this article as examples
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Design & Business Ethics: A Literature Review Liberty University Online Dr. Maddox May 9‚ 2014 Abstract A review of the current literature regarding business ethics was conducted analyzing scholarly peer-reviewed articles about business ethics and their relation to leadership‚ managerial decision making‚ corporate social responsibility and overall corporate structure. Increased corporate scandals and the discovery of a rise in unethical business practices have thrown the topic of business ethics
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A Literature Review on International Business Introduction Engaging in international business is one of the most important factors that a businessman must consider in order to gain more financial strength and stability for his company. One reason of investing to other countries provides a much larger opportunity for growth. But the success of a business also depends on choosing the right country to transact with‚ and having the ability to negotiate with that country in terms of their rules and
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Solving High School Problems In the past few years American high school students have a significant amount of struggling. Young people’s struggles come from various sources such as school‚ social class‚ race‚ and gender. The article “Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin mentions multiple issues about high schools‚ and how students tend to divide up into groups. These divisions among adolescents can either cause social‚ race‚ or gender problem. Likewise‚ Michael Quintanilla
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Frame the issue. Discuss the advantages and limitations of optimal portfolio allocation. HMC defined their Policy Portfolio to correspond to their benchmark‚ according to the modern portfolio theory (Markowitz‚ 1952)‚ whose goal is to minimize the variance for a given return. The main advantage of the optimal portfolio allocation lies in its ability to provide weights on how to invest a given amount of money based on a few inputs. Optimal portfolio allocation is easy to implement‚ yet it faces
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everyday lives with our constantly changing culture. Most of the time‚ what Britney Spears and other celebrities wear to their word day isn ’t what we should to wear to work. The first article that I referenced was found after going to the search engine google (http://www.google.com). This article I found‚ Business Casual at Virginia Tech‚ from Virginia Tech ’s webpage (http://www.career.vt.edu/JOBSEARC/BusCasual.htm#ATTIREMENWOMEN). What this site said was that men and women should wear Khaki pants
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This article is another informative work on the dangers on distracted driving. This article‚ however‚ includes distractions from hands-free devices that allow one to have a phone conversation without holding a phone to his or her ear. A study showed that someone texting or having a conversation on a wireless headset drove as poorly as someone whose blood alcohol concentration was above the legal limits in Australia and Spain‚ where this was tested (0.5 grams per liter). The study also found that
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