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...heirs are better educated and more international in their outlook than their parents were, and they are leading their firms in new directions. The Barillas of Italy have built a pasta plant in Ames, Iowa, and recently bought a German bread company. The Ottos of Germany (Eddie Bauer, Crate & Barrel) are investing heavily in e-commerce. France's Lagardere family is becoming an international media heavyweight...
Michael Otto, 59, has aggressively pushed to countries beyond Germany, including the U.S., where he has a majority stake in Crate & Barrel. (The family separately owns the Spiegel catalog group, which includes Spiegel, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, an online women's-clothing retailer.) Otto has also invested heavily in technology, including e-commerce, to improve efficiency, cut costs and reach out to customers. Last year the company turned a profit for the first time on its online sales, which reached $1.9 billion. Otto boasts that it's the second largest Internet retailer after Amazon.com The advantages of running...
...lamb shwarma. Since I’m making everyone hungry, I will move on to a discussion of what is really important: Harvard’s attempt to generate a piece of significant architecture on the site, one of its first in many years (the new Naito and Bauer laboratory building has been a success, albeit on a far less prominent site). Harvard needs another Carpenter Center, a building that will get people to think and talk about the meaning of architecture, whether they like the design of the building or not. For local residents, the design of the building...
Returning from this regression, economists should converge on a growth theory resembling the forgotten discipline of political economy. They should discover the neglected economic insights behind de Soto’s analysis, like those of Friedrich Hayek, Richard Epstein and Peter Bauer...
...think that the [Bauer Center] is an excellent conception,” said Mervyn J. Turner, senior vice president at Merck Research Laboratories. “By funding it, we’d be providing some seed money to trigger these new areas of fundamental research in the biological sciences...