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...Hall at Harvard Business School sports solar panels built this year, thanks to a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and an interest-free loan from the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI). HGCI holds $3 million in funds that it lends out for environment-oriented improvements like the one atop Shad...
...It’s a cabaret show,” says Strauss, and it doesn’t leave anyone out: the perennial acts atop the Hill—Dubya, Dick, Donald and Condoleeza—are joined by old favorites Bill and Hillary, the hapless Democrats running for president, and Arnold. Onstage, the politicians—plus Rush Limbaugh—carry on their usual antics in songs and skits, like the Mary Poppins classic “Super-California-Recall-Freak-Show-Was-Atrocious,” “The Lieber...
...worked. Lu, 32, is CEO of Dad's firm, Wanxiang Group. He is expected one day to take his father's position atop the board in what would be the first dynastic succession in a major Chinese firm. Wanxiang supplies the makers of most passenger cars in China and operates factories in the U.S. that sell to the Big Three automakers. Lu, who unlike many local businessmen won't speculate in things like real estate, is playing it safe: "I get enough excitement running the company. I don't need to joyride anymore." --By Matthew Forney/Beijing
...tensions exist atop Renault between chairman and chief executive Louis Schweitzer and his heir Carlos Ghosn, they're well veiled. Ghosn is CEO of Nissan Motor, the Japanese automaker that Renault controls through a 44.4% ownership stake. He's slated to move from Tokyo to Paris in 2005 and become CEO of Renault while Schweitzer remains chairman, a situation that Ghosn says could be seen as "potentially antagonistic." But he and Schweitzer have worked together for five years and developed a relationship of "mutual trust," Ghosn says, adding that after a decision is made public "you never know who defended...
Just that long ago, the Harvard football team was undefeated and poised to make a run for its second Ivy League championship in three years. After defeating Princeton in a dramatic 43-40 overtime victory on Oct. 25, Harvard and Penn stood tied atop the Ivy standings with three league wins apiece...