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...everything from throwing food at your friends to playing chess with them,” said Charlene H. Li ’88, principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. “Within the college environment, like at Harvard, it’s very easy to be able to translate the things that you do and take them online into Facebook...
Alan Baum, an analyst with the Planning Edge in Birmingham, Mich., said, that a strike over job security is likely to be the UAW's attempt to win concessions from GM in exchange for the union's acquiescence to parts of the health care financing agreement, embodied in the so-called Voluntary Employment Benefit Association (VEBA). "If the UAW its going to take the VEBA to its members," says Baum, "it has to have something to show for it. The issue then becomes, 'We gave here but this is what we got.'" Baum said the strike could well serve...
...Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor was the golden jewel in May's portfolio, but [the owners] didn't focus on it," says Christine Chen, a retail analyst at Needham and Co. Upscale vendors began to bow out. "When I took over [as CEO] in 2000, there was no difference between us and May Co. stores [Macy's and Filene's] at the other end of the mall," says Elfers, who has worked at the store...
...charmer. His favorite stories usually involve one of his three daughters or some bit of subcontinental trivia picked up on one of the 50 trips he's made to India from Goldman's Hong Kong office since 1998. "Brooks has a limitless passion for being here," says analyst Debanshi Basu, who transferred from Bangalore. "You know he's committed to doing great things, and you want to be part of that...
...subprime woes will have little effect on Indian investors, who have largely avoided leveraged buyouts, unlike their U.S. counterparts, who have been relying on the now shaky credit markets to finance those deals. But if global credit markets tighten, "India won't be immune," says Ernst & Young financial-services analyst Ashvin Parekh. Foreign investors sank $98 billion into India from 2003 to 2006, according to Morgan Stanley, and every major investment bank in the world is chasing that business. Less free-flowing credit will inevitably lead to Indian companies' eyeing fewer deals and therefore to even more competition for their...