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Supplier diversity needs to focus on industries of today and tomorrow Black companies became pigeonholed in low-margin endeavors such as janitorial, landscaping, delivery and construction. B-TO-B-DIVERSITY Ariel Investments founder and co-CEO John Rogers has served on corporate, university, hospital and museum boards, sometimes as the first or sole African American. When he asks the CEO, CFO or general counsel if they would consider using a minority investment bank in their next deal, he says the invariable answer is, "I didn't know there were Black firms that could do that." Black firms aren...

The price of good intentions By Jonathan Rosenblum Eric Schulzke: Daydreaming may be the next childhood psychiatric target Kathryn Moody: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis? Meghan Streit: Pitching In When Caregivers Need Help The Kosher Gourmet by Diane Rossen Worthington: Caprese is a light, fresh salad; the perfect quick and easy accompaniment to any summer meal Jonathan Tobin: Care about the Jewish state's future? Obama, in interview, reveals even more reasons to worry Alan M. Dershowitz: Confirmed: Needless death and destruction in Gaza Katie Nielsen: As a mother, I...

books and culture Recapturing the American “We” Robert Putnam’s latest book is a statistical tour de force but fails to acknowledge the implications of its analysis. The Social Order Social scientist Robert Putnam has a well-deserved reputation for arriving at original conclusions by asking original questions. In The Upswing, he and coauthor Shaylyn Romney Garrett have given us another compelling argument about American social life. A statistical tour de force, The Upswing asks an important question: Do Americans today care and focus more on themselves as individuals�...

Illustration by Francescoch/iStock Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week volunteering at local homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during sophomore year the commitments didn’t strike him as unusual. “I was just doing what everyone else was doing,” he says. “I was just absorbed in that culture of go,...