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☆ Thailand's royalists foiled Harvard grad Pita Limjaroenrat's first attempt at becoming prime minister. Here's what happens now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Clement Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Thailand's Pita Limjaroenrat may get another shot at the country's prime minister job next week. But his path to potential power remains unclear, especially if the leader of the country's Move Forward Party does not budge from his election pledge to amend a law that prohibits criticism of the monarchy. Limjaroenrat fell 51 votes short of the majority he needed from the 749 members of Thailand's bicameral National Assembly for the top job in a first parliamentary vote on Thursday. Forty-two-year-old Pita, who attended Harvard Kennedy School, will be able to stand for prime minister if nominated again by his eight-party alliance. Otherwise, Pheu Thai — the second-largest party in the eight-party coalition with Move Forward — may also put forward its own candidate from among the three candidates the party had earlier surfaced.

Persons: Thailand's Pita Limjaroenrat, Limjaroenrat, Grace Lim, Pita, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaksin Shinawatra, Srettha Thavisin, Chaikasem Nitisiri Organizations: National Assembly, Senate, Moody's Investors, Harvard Kennedy School Locations: Southeast Asia's

☆ Two Sisters Try Living Together (Again) in Washington. Who Gets the Bigger Bedroom?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Michele Lerner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Caroline Berens had been perfectly happy living alone for a couple of years in Washington, when her younger sister, Emma, announced that she was planning to move to the city. So Ms. Berens didn’t immediately extend an invitation to be roommates in her one-bedroom rental in Dupont Circle. “I’ve always been frugal and have saved money to buy a home since I started babysitting at 12,” Caroline Berens said. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]“I’m coming from college life, where I lived with three other roommates, so I’m not worried about sharing a home with Caroline,” Emma said. “Plus,” she said, “I was determined to avoid living in a basement.”Both sisters are tall, so Caroline wanted high ceilings.

Persons: Caroline Berens, Emma, Berens didn’t, “, haven’t, ”, Berens, we’ve, ” Emma Berens, “ I’ve, ” Caroline Berens, I’m, Caroline, ” Emma, Adams Morgan, Lucy, “ Caroline, Claudia Ornelas, Ms, Ornelas Organizations: Brunswick Group, Harvard, “ Locations: Washington, Dupont, Boston

Around the world we talk a good game about the importance of education, but we rarely act as if we mean it. Here’s an unlikely exception: Sierra Leone, one of the world’s most impoverished countries. If Sierra Leone can do this, other countries can — and surely the United States can emulate that same determination to help every child learn. This education revolution in Sierra Leone is the brainchild of President Julius Maada Bio and his youthful minister of education, David Sengeh. A Harvard graduate, Sengeh was working for IBM when President Bio asked him to come home and help his country — but now they face a test.

Persons: Julius Maada, David Sengeh, Sengeh, Bio Organizations: Harvard, IBM, Nationwide Locations: Sierra Leone, —, United States

☆ How Daniel Ellsberg, who died at 92, went from being a disillusioned member of the government-military elite to a hero of anti-war movements
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, died at 92, his family said Friday. David Halberstam, the late author and Vietnam War correspondent who had known Ellsberg since both were posted overseas, would describe him as no ordinary convert. "Without Nixon's obsession with me, he would have stayed in office," Ellsberg told The Associated Press in 1999. Ellsberg's story was depicted in the 2009 documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." He and Marx wedded in 1970, the year before the Pentagon Papers were made public.

Persons: Daniel Ellsberg, Ellsberg, —, — Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Nixon, Julia Pacetti, Dan, Robert S, McNamara, Lyndon Johnson's, John F, Kennedy, David Halberstam, Johnson, Neil Sheehan, Henry Kissinger, Hannah Arendt, Nixon, Nixon fumed, H.R, Haldeman, Matthew Byrne, Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, Byrne, Daniel, Harry Truman, nodded, Ellsberg's, Rand, Anthony J, Russo, Robert, Kissinger, Sen, William J, Fulbright, George McGovern of, Marcus Raskin, Ralph Stavins, Sheehan, Raskin, Stavins, didn't, spry, George W, Bush, Obama, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Snowden, Patricia Marx, Marx Organizations: Pentagon, Service, Supreme, Defense, Harvard, Democratic, Republican, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Associated Press, National Security, United, U.S, White, Democratic Party's, Washington , D.C, Associated Press, Coast, Rand Corp, Christian Science, Soviet Union overseas, Harvard University, Marines, Ivy League, Defense Department, State Department, Rand, Xerox, Arkansas, Foreign Relations Committee, Institute for Policy, Times, ., Army, New York Times, Massachusetts Institute, Technology's Center for International Studies Locations: Boston, Los Angeles, Vietnam, Indochina, U.S, France's, America, United States, Beverly Hills , California, Washington ,, Saigon, Santa Monica, Chicago, Detroit, Pearl, London, Germany, Japan, Santa Monica , California, George McGovern of South Dakota, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia

☆ Harvard grad makes $230K per year with mother and daughter ice cream shop
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHarvard grad makes $230K per year with mother and daughter ice cream shopAnnie Park, Sarah's Handmade Ice Cream co-founder, joins 'Last Call' for Make it Mondays to discuss how she turned a mother-daughter ice cream venture into a bustling small business.

Persons: Park Organizations: Harvard

Her mother Sarah — a former deli shop owner — was bored with retirement and had decided to open an ice cream shop in Bethesda, Maryland. "To be honest, at first I was like, 'ice cream shop?'" Running the ice cream shopDespite Sarah's Handmade Ice Cream successful grand opening, it took over six months for the business to become "a well-oiled machine," Park says. Instead, Park and her mother donate ice cream to local nonprofits and community organizations, which has attracted loyal customers in the Bethesda area. Within a few months of opening the first store, Park realized the business didn't have to be limited to just "a mom-and-daughter shop."

☆ Top Colleges for High-Paying Jobs in Management Consulting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Kailyn Rhone | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Harvard graduates in management consulting earn over $61,000 a year more than the median B.A. graduate in the field, according to the Burning Glass InstituteGraduates of Harvard University who go into management consulting earn significantly more than young professionals from other schools who enter the field, according to a ranking compiled by the Burning Glass Institute, a nonprofit that researches employment trends. The top public university in the new ranking is the Georgia Institute of Technology.

☆ 12 ways to fund your small business that don't involve venture capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Most small businesses don't access VC when they launch, often relying on savings and credit cards. There are many ways to get financing for starting, funding, or expanding your business. Yet most small businesses don't access venture capital when they launch. The rest rely on options like personal savings, business loans, and credit cards. Here are 12 ways you can fund your small business, level by level.

☆ A tiny-home village that can house over 30 homeless people is the latest project from a California prefab company that quickly builds homes in factories and trucks them to their destinations
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Long Beach, California, made a $2.5 million deal to build tiny homes for people in need. The bathroom in a Connect Homes shelter. From luxury homes to sheltersFor its private customers, Connect Homes builds 15 single-family-home models, ranging from a 460-square-foot home for $220,000 to a 1,960-square-foot four-bedroom home that costs about $700,000. Connect Homes' Shelter 3, a type of tiny home that's set to be built in Long Beach, California. It's now getting inquiries in other states about its tiny homes, Leung said.

☆ Wall Street titan Apollo has a new class of dealmakers. Here's how 3 rose to partner while in their 30s.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Casey Sullivan | Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

He persevered through the brutal all-nighters, the perplexing spreadsheets, and the temperamental bosses who walked the halls of the midtown Manhattan investment firm. At Apollo, executives tend to grow up quickly. Some of their former colleagues have tried to make more money elsewhere, such as the hedge funds run by billionaire personalities that Apollo's executives quietly root against. Associates sometimes dealt with burnout from heavy workloads and demanding bosses by escaping for a walk through Central Park to let off steam, according to the former firm associates. We're Rayman Apollo!'"

☆ Math and reading scores hit during pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMath and reading scores hit during pandemicMarty West of the Harvard Graduate School of Education joins Shep Smith to discuss the drop in test scores during the pandemic and what can be done about it.

☆ Some Miss USA contestants allege ‘favoritism’ in this year’s competition. The organization says it is investigating.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Kaetlyn Liddy | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Miss Universe Organization ran the Miss USA competition until 2020, when The Miss Brand Corp., headed by Crystle Stewart, took over. … I understand how isolating it is to win Miss USA,” Elle Smith, who was Miss USA last year, said in a TikTok video. She argued that Gabriel was “the clear front-runner.”“She needed to perform at Miss USA and she did exactly that,” Smith added. When I won Miss Texas USA, Miss USA and more recently, became President of the Miss USA Organization many women of color were inspired and filled with hope,” she said in her statement Friday. “Because this is not the Miss USA organization that we all looked up to as little girls.

☆ 28-year-old Harvard grad who quit his $200,000 job: Here's the biggest downside of success 'no one talks about'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Julian Sarafian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Julian Sarafian, a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School, quit his $200,000-per-year job in 2021 to manage his anxiety and depression. In 2018, after graduating from Harvard Law School, I landed my dream job at a top law firm in California. But here's the biggest downside of success that no one talks about: the deep anxiety — and eventual depression — that often goes ignored. From Harvard Law to severe anxiety and depressionMy grandmother and I were very close. When the pandemic hit in 2020, my mental health spiraled even more, and I found myself unable to keep up with my workaholic habits.

☆ Elizabeth Warren slams Rick Scott's 'shameless attempt' to pass a bill that would block Biden's student-loan forgiveness
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elizabeth Warren slammed Rick Scott for trying to pass a bill blocking student-loan forgiveness. Senate Democrats blocked that bill from passing, and on Wednesday, Warren blasted Scott for trying to push the legislation through. "This is a shameful attempt by Republicans to keep working Americans buried under mountains of student debt," Warren said on the Senate floor. Still, during his floor speech after his bill was blocked, Scott reiterated conservative criticisms of student-loan forgiveness. Other GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to block student-loan forgiveness, saying the scale of this relief was illegal.

☆ The pros and cons of going to graduate school right now, according to academic and business experts
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-09 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Due to the current job market, many recent college graduates are considering going back to school. Could now be a smart time to put your job search on ice and shift gears to graduate school? The prosYou avoid entering a limited job market and possibly stunting your compensationPatrick Mullane, executive director of Harvard Business School Online, explained one benefit of going to graduate school while the economy isn't robust. J. Celeste Walley-Jean, dean at Clayton State University's School of Graduate Studies & Inclusive Engagement, noted that another indicator that the timing may be right to attend graduate school is cost. "If you just graduated and can't find a job, grad school might seem like a great way to ride out the recession.

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