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In a New York Times op-ed, Cambridge professor Chris Marquis argues that MBA programs train managers to put shareholders first and can’t be fixed. His critics say he goes too far. The real question is who pays for the way business leaders are taught to think.
Housing costs in parts of Nigeria’s commercial capital have nearly doubled while wages have barely moved. Families seeking cheaper homes are being pushed farther from employment centers, where transportation costs consume much of what they hoped to save.
Sanae Takaichi says household duties add three to four hours to days already defined by extreme political work. Representation changed who holds the office. It did not automatically change the assumptions built around it.
Harvard’s endowment has reached $68 billion, yet the university has eliminated staff positions. At Temple, Penn State and Utah, financial restructuring is changing how campuses operate—and raising concerns about what students may lose.
Enrollment has fallen 21% in eight years, leaving nearly half the district’s elementary schools below half capacity. Families could now face longer commutes, disrupted education and the loss of schools that anchor their communities.
The first phase of a nearly 2,000-home development on a megachurch’s East New York campus is open, with 453 more homes and a child-care center on the way. Whether it keeps longtime Brooklyn families in place depends on how far its rents sit from what the neighborhood actually earns.
Millions of working Americans earn too much to qualify for financial assistance but still struggle to pay their bills, and for some, a raise leaves them worse off.
Millions of federal student loan borrowers were told this summer that they had 90 days to leave the SAVE repayment plan and choose another option. Now some are discovering that even the deadline is less fixed than it appeared. Business Insider senior reporter Ayelet Sheffey reported this week that borrowers approaching their original cutoff dates have received additional 30-day “final notices,” effectively extending the time available to choose a new repayment plan.
A planned 40-bed recuperative-care center recognizes a failure built into the health system: a patient can be well enough to leave a hospital without having a safe place to recover.
The settlement exposes a weakness in major public infrastructure projects: once a city becomes dependent on finishing the work, its bargaining power changes.
Inflation is falling, but food costs remain high and a $12.4 billion gap in the country’s external accounts is raising a different question about how much confidence the recovery can carry.
Voters in Redwood City, San Pablo and Berkeley are being asked to limit rent increases as high-paid technology workers push deeper into a housing market that was already short on supply.
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