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...Excessive? Probably. And while Krzyzewski's boardroom ease wins him business praise, it makes many fellow college coaches, and the loud legion of Duke basketball haters (check out the "Anti-Duke Manifesto" on the Web. Bring a sandwich; it's nearly 6,500 words long), quite uncomfortable. During the 2005 NCAA tournament and into this year, American Express featured Krzyzewski in an ad campaign: "I look at myself as a leader who just happens to coach basketball," he says, standing in Duke's revered Cameron Indoor Stadium. Critics complained that the extra exposure is a recruiting advantage. "It's inconsequential...
From inside the boards to inside the boardroom. That’s the transition Olympian and former Harvard ice hockey star Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 will make after being selected in an online fan vote from a pool of Winter Games standouts to appear in the upcoming sixth season of the popular reality show, The Apprentice, debuting in January. The program, the brainchild of real estate mogul Donald Trump, pits two teams against each other in tasks testing their character, business acumen, and entrepreneurship, with the least apt candidate—in the eyes...
...scoring in the boardroom, though, MLS still has some problems on the pitch. Although the level of play has risen dramatically, it's no match for élite European leagues--and Americans clearly expect the best. The way the league is managed, each MLS team has a $2 million salary cap. You can't buy a star with that kind of money. So the league is planning to allow each team to sign one marquee player, a designated star, who won't count against the salary cap. "Our long-term goal is to be one of the world's best...
...came up from the bottom and did not forget the lessons he learned from the street," says John Vaccaro, owner of Bett-A-Way Traffic Systems in South Plainfield, N.J., Arizona's national logistics provider for the past 14 years. "Now he's a street fighter in the boardroom...
...said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." DONALD TRUMP, during an appearance on ABC's The View with Ivanka, a boardroom adviser on his NBC show, The Apprentice, which started its fifth season last week