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...which political considerations carry more weight than commercial ones, where horse-trading trumps industrial efficiency, and where the national interests of its partners are balanced so carefully that many operations are needlessly duplicated. "It's very hard for Airbus to free itself from political strangulation," says Ulrich Horstmann, aerospace analyst at Munich, Germany-based Bayerische Landesbank. Christian Streiff, who took over as Airbus chief executive in July, is now trying to wriggle out of that choke grip. Last week, the board of EADS, Airbus' parent, signed off on his sweeping restructuring plan to replace political bargaining with industrial logic. Streiff...
...company ventures, so beloved by the airline industry, which either succeed spectacularly - as the Boeing 747 did - or risk sending the whole firm into a tailspin. Mechanically at least, the A380 works: Airbus has been conducting successful test flights for over a year. Horstmann, the Munich bank analyst, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to work through this crisis and bounce back in a couple of years. "But there is a danger it'll get sucked into a vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he worries. Already stretched by the A380...
Although some students who go into the recruiting track know that they want a career in business, others do not share that same certainty. For this set, the idea of a job that is structured around the two-year commitment typical of an analyst or associate is appealing. According to OCS Director Bill Wright-Swadel, students are eager to work for companies “who are not going to be upset that after two years [that they] want to move...
...profit competes for self-starting, hard working leaders who can think on their feet with the big boys of Harvard recruiting. And TFA, by way of the districts they teach in, offers as little as $25,000 in compensation per year, a mere quarter of what a first-year analyst at a top firm can expect...
...State Sen. Florence Shapiro, who heads the Senate Education Committee, as well as by a host of other state and national charter advocates. "Texas is an important state, one of the fastest-growing states both in population and in the number of charter schools," says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington, D.C. "If Texas does pass this legislation, it will become the first state to provide facility funds for only high-performing charters...