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...doors and secret meetings--may be acceptable at Exxon Mobil, where Corporation member James R. Houghton '58 is a director. They may be acceptable at Enron, on whose board of directors Corporation member Herbert S. Winokur '65 serves. And they may be acceptable at Tricon Restaurants, home of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and Corporation member D. Ronald Daniel. But they are not acceptable at our University. As a non-profit institution dedicated to higher learning, Harvard should operate through a qualitatively different power structure than a multinational, for-profit corporation...
...more efficient by considering what is offered at every meal before taking anything. For instance, if the first item of hot food that catches your eye is beef fajitas, you may jump at the opportunity, realizing that you have not seen the inside of a Taco Bell in three months. As you excitedly leave the hot food area and pass the pasta, your eyes fall upon pesto sauce and you immediately think of Grandma Viola with her magnificent ravioli. Remembering the succulent aroma of her kitchen as you fill a hefty bowl with penne and pesto, it occurs...
...areas. He moved aggressively into cable, plunking down $115 billion to build the nation's biggest cable network. Armstrong has also pushed into fast-growing areas like wireless and has tried to turn AT&T's WorldNet into a rival of AOL's. The ultimate vision was that Ma Bell would clean up by cross-selling its 80 million customers a bundle of telephone, cable and Internet services...
...Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could move was his left eyelid. Flicking that eyelid, he managed to signal the letters of the alphabet, and proceeded to write his autobiography, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with the last grand gesture of his life...
Breaking up has worked in the past. Ma Bell's dizzying array of spin-offs, including the regional Bell companies in 1984 and Lucent and others in the '90s, have mostly done well by being good businesses to start with and then being set free to raise capital, allocate resources independently and enter new markets as they liked...