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Others questioned whether the museum would fit into Harvard’s plan to reinvigorate the area by building commercial venues to attract visitors, according to Mellone...
...store within a store--one of five Sephoras opened in a Penney in October--is part of the new face of a century-old retailer and the $18.8 billion company's strategy to attract younger, more affluent female customers. Come March, 10 more Sephoras will open, followed by nine more in June. "It's a brilliant move," says Citigroup analyst Deborah Weinswig. "It has a halo effect on the whole store...
...light of these hurdles, many lawyers rely heavily on the media to bolster their cases. At times, media scrutiny can pressure judges into ruling a certain way. It may also attract attention from more powerful government organs that pressure the institutions beneath them to comply with the law and settle out of court or even change laws and policies. In 2003, for example, a lawsuit by relatives of Sun Zhigang, a man beaten to death in police detention after being arrested for not carrying his ID card, provoked an intense public outcry, especially on Chinese Web sites. Three months after...
...take steps to promote the research of drugs for the developing world. The current research system is woefully unprepared to address the needs of the developing world. Tens of millions of individuals suffer from “neglected disease” for which there is insufficient market potential to attract private sector response. For example, the most widely used drug for sleeping sickness, Melarsoprol, was developed over 50 years ago. Arsenic-based, it is extremely painful to administer and is so toxic that it kills five percent of those who take it. Given Harvard’s intellectual capital...
Their most undervalued asset, says Harvey, is a stake in private online company aSmall World.net an invitation-only social-networking site that hopes to attract international movers and shakers: think of it as a MySpace for millionaires, where you could interact with Naomi Campbell instead of Tila Tequila...