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...council provides the biggest chunk of funding that numerous student groups on campus receive. Clearly, the need more money and raising the council's budget is the fastest way to provide them with that money. With more money the Black Students Association wouldn’t be forced to scramble to fund their upcoming hip-hop Conference or the South Asian Association could put on more events like Ghungroo which bring together the entire campus...
With the victories over Penn and Princeton thisweekend, Harvard has placed itself in the frontseat for the Ivy League Championship. TheTigers--who finished second to Harvard last seasonin the title race--and the Quakers looked topresent the biggest obstacles in the Crimson'spursuit of a repeat...
...spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy to forget that the most famous takeover battle of all time, R.J. Reynolds' 1988 bloody leveraged buyout of Nabisco, was valued at a paltry $25 billion. (The biggest merger of all time, to put things in perspective, is still in the process of creation: the announced marriage between Mobil and Exxon, which is estimated to be worth at least $80 billion...
...third reason for bulking up, according to Francesco Giavazzi, a professor at Milan's prestigious Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...
...course, putting products online doesn't guarantee they'll sell. One of the biggest mistakes businesses make when they venture onto the Web is building a site and not bothering to promote it. An effective advertising campaign should incorporate search engines, online ads and traditional media such as newspapers or radio. Some Website providers like MindSpring will register your firm free with top search engines Lycos and Excite. Others, Microsoft's LinkExchange among them (www. linkexchange.com) will swap banner ads with other businesses without charge...