Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent articles in The Crimson define this spectrum. With all of the idealism of a social studies concentrator, Jonathan T. Jacoby '99 challenged his fellow seniors to choose career paths we could justify to Third World peasants ("Anti-social Behavior" Opinion, Nov. 4). Then Kaustuv Sen '99, with the pragmatic individualism of an economics concentrator, argued that I-bankers and consultants may be the actors in society in the best position to do good ("In Defense of Business Careers" Opinion...
...university maintains that Kingsbury's contract was not renewed because of his "behavior" and teaching ability, and for no other reason...
Rockefeller believed in a new economic order that he dubbed "cooperation." President Theodore Roosevelt and his trustbusters had another word for it--monopoly--and the Lord proved no help to Rockefeller against T.R. Rockefeller's tough tactics forced America to define the limits of corporate behavior. Since Rockefeller managed to figure out every conceivable anticompetitive practice, the authors of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 simply had to study his career to draw up a reform agenda...
...create wealth broadly was to him an undeniable proposition. And while this is now a more or less universal truth, it was not always so. During the first part of this century, after all, the Street was largely a rigged game. Insiders manipulated the market from behind the curtains, behavior that, while unseemly, was legal then. Small investors were scorned--or fleeced. Yet Merrill was untouched by the cynicism that pervaded Wall Street. Like so many American visionaries, he was marked by naive and exaggerated optimism that was unshakable, even in the face of the darker reality...
...organization. He mastered the concept of market segmentation--Chevrolets for Everyman, Cadillacs for the wealthy--to better target GM's sales and avoid internal competition, a strategy that left Ford behind. Sloan also understood what managers today call "consumer insight" by visiting Ford dealers incognito to learn about buyer behavior and competitive offerings...