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...agree with Wiggin, then former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's legendary ability to pilot us past market jitters and avert major economic dislocations is something not to be praised but to be condemned. Among the doom crowd, Greenspan's decision to slash interest rates as the stock market plummeted in 2001, which fueled the last leg of the real estate boom, is seen as his gravest error. Despite his raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board...
...companies that are experimenting with mobile-marketing campaigns to find cost-effective ways to tap the medium. When BMW launched new models in China last year, it tried mobile-video ads as well as downloadable screen "wallpaper" and ringtones. "The click-through rates were unbelievable," says BMW marketing manager Alan Yang. "It's the most effective brand-building tool we've tried." To promote its bB minivan in Japan, Toyota offered concert tickets to those who took snapshots of the vehicle with camera phones. For the World Cup, Adidas fielded a game that allowed players to pimp digital sneakers...
...requires a special mix of vision and audacity to build a luxury hotel in a run-down neighborhood during a crippling economic crisis, and to call it not just a hotel but also a "universe." Yet that is precisely what Argentine fashion magnate Alan Faena did when he bought an abandoned warehouse in Buenos Aires' Puerto Madero district, convinced Philippe Starck to design the interior and, in 2005, opened the 10-meter-high doors of the Faena Hotel and Universe, tel: (54-11) 4010 9000. Impressively, he makes good on his out-of-the-world claim with lush red velvet...
Four months after announcing his resignation, Alan J. Stone, Harvard’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs, has agreed to remain at his post until the end of the next academic year...
...Alan has served the University with remarkable distinction, and I am pleased that Harvard will continue to have the benefit of his wisdom, sound judgment, and broad experience at this moment of transition,” Faust wrote in a statement...