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...American countries as well as Turkey, Russia and China as significant future sources of growth. Conspicuously missing on this list is the U.S.; Benetton recently moved its U.S. headquarters from New York City to Miami, to be closer to the Latin American markets it's targeting. (Read "India: Hey, Big Spenders...
...talk about changes - but he always comes back to the idea of continuity. "Many people think that the way to start is by listing the things you want to change. My approach is to start from the list of things I thought it would be a big mistake to change," he says. He is, after all, a Benetton. As he says of his own ascent to prominence: "I love to describe this as a different chapter of the same book." One that, his shareholders and his cousins hope, will have a happier ending than many other family empires that...
...about 40 companies employing 2,000 people in Srinagar's tiny IT industry. Gulzar wants to bring Srinagar a piece of the economic boom that has transformed so many other Indian cities. "We would like to be as successful as Bangalore, Pune or Delhi," he says. Kashmir has a big advantage - a large population of well-educated but unemployed college graduates whose salaries are far below those in India's established IT hubs. But the state government and the army are virtually Gulzar's only clients; multinational companies are reluctant to outsource work to Kashmir. "Unless and until there...
...beef up livestock. Making matters worse, land and resources also got reallocated to produce biofuels. Once voluminous reserves of grain evaporated; this year, they are at the lowest levels since the mid-1970s. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices up to heights not seen for three decades. Protests broke out across the emerging world; in Haiti, fierce food riots toppled the government. NEW LIMITS TO GROWTH REVIVE MALTHUSIAN FEARS, a Wall Street Journal headline screamed in March...
Doctors themselves could tell you that - particularly primary-care providers (PCPs), the foot soldiers of the U.S. medical system. New doctors graduate from medical school lugging up to $200,000 in student loans. Paying that off takes a big bite out of even a low-six-figure salary. Add to that the high costs, long days and billing headaches involved in running a practice, and it's no wonder so many family docs are trading up to specialties like orthopedics, where the pay can be three times as great and the hours a whole lot shorter. Only...