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...Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jacobs bought Operation Bass, which ran many of those low-paying tournaments. But it too was struggling. He realized that since more than 50 million people fished, they didn't define a market subset. They were the market. "This group of people buys everything. And they're loyal. A bell went off in my head," says Jacobs. Folks who bought Strike King lures also bought tons of cereal and candy. And not only did they buy that stuff, but they could identify with pro fishermen...
Judith R. Haberkorn, a 1992 graduate of the Advanced Management Program, was president of consumer sales and services for Verizon and helped guide the company through the breakup of the Bell System prior to retiring...
...wait, haven't we heard this story before? Does the phrase "water pill" ring a bell? Three years ago another big NIH study showed that a cheap, old-fashioned diuretic (a.k.a. water pill) worked better for most folks with high blood pressure than did costly, cutting-edge medications. (These included a calcium-channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor). Then there's the sad lesson of Vioxx and its ilk. That category of painkillers captured a $5 billion-a-year market on the celebrated promise that they were safer than older, cheaper analgesics like Tylenol or Advil. In this case...
...students does not necessarily denote grade inflation; nor does it diminish the value of Ivy League credentials. Princeton and any other schools considering joining the battle against “grade inflation” should think hard about whether their students can really be ranked on a bell curve. More likely, they are just lucky enough to have the hardest-working and most intelligent students in the country at their schools. Professors seem to realize it—and administrators should...