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...music icons who carry Guitar Center's sales. It's the twentysomething guys with day jobs, weekend gigs and outsize hopes. According to Marty Albertson, Guitar Center's co-chief executive, 43% of the chain's customers are aspiring professional musicians, whose purchases account for 40% of revenues--the largest chunk of any customer group. Among them are strivers like Andrew Geonetta, 27, a singer-songwriter who plays club gigs in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few nights a week and works for an interactive design firm during the day. "I'd love to make a living at making music," says Geonetta...
Geonetta is in what Albertson calls "the dream phase." According to Albertson, a former sound engineer who worked his way up to co-CEO from Guitar Center's sales floor, "becoming a musician is all about dreaming. The longer we can extend the dream phase, the better." In the past several years, the dream phase got a boost from advances in digital recording technology. Artists like Geonetta who don't have a record-label contract used to have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home...
Safran was the Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies. Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh ’60, who directed the center after Safran’s resignation, called him an expert in the politics of the modern middle east and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was “one of the luminaries of the field” of modern Middle Eastern politics, Mottahedeh said...
...mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe they could add to that a sincere 'thank you,' which would be nice. But they didn't when I was there." The way his voice...
William Graham, who is Albertson professor of Middle Eastern studies and professor of the history of religion, was named acting dean of the Divinity School last January and was named to fill the post permanently in August...