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...matter how narrow their niche, the experts insist that inspired insight or client demand dictated their particular angle. Targeting is also a good business practice. "You don't want buzzwords," says Jeff Sandefer, president of energy investment firm Sandefer Capital Partners and a founder of the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship program. "Everyone wants to hire the expert and will pay a lot for very specific help." Some companies love the idea of bringing in an adviser to fix one narrowly defined problem. Gossip Stoppers is a prime example. "A half day, and you leave with a couple of nuggets...
...said Emily W. Hogeland ’07, who chaired the event’s Programming and Promotions Committee. One Currier blocking group did particularly well in the raffle, with four members winning prizes including a video iPod and some of the gift certificates, according to Christopher N. Acton-Maher ’07, who won an iHome speaker and is also a Crimson editor. “Our block-mate [Joseph K. Lee ’07] is in charge of the whole thing. He’d been encouraging us to buy tickets, and we ended up with...
...afraid to try community college, she says, because she doesn't want to look stupid. Although she has a house she owns with her husband and a fine job serving coffee, biscuits and small talk at Ole McDonald's Cafe in nearby Acton, Ind., Sarah is not without regret. "It would have been nice to have someone pushing me to stay," she says. "Who knows how things would have turned...
...former editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois’ Daily Illini is spending his spring break on campus, catching up on the work he missed during a month-long investigation that resulted in his dismissal by the newspaper’s board of directors last week. Acton H. Gorton, a senior majoring in communications, said in a telephone interview yesterday that “the whole investigation was sham. It was just a sham.” Gorton was suspended with pay last month along with the editor of the opinion page, Chuck J. Prochaska, for their decision...
...editor-in-chief and opinions page editor last Wednesday after the paper printed the polemical cartoons. According to a statement published by the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, the suspensions were enacted at the request of the newsroom staff because of the failure of editors Acton H. Gorton and Chuck Prochaska to consult key leaders of the paper before publishing the cartoons. The suspensions will continue pending an investigation into how the cartoons ended up in the paper. Last Wednesday, following the publication of four of the cartoons by the Salient in their Feb. 8 issue, Associate Dean...