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Today, Business School classroom discussions tend to make boardroom experience a necessity. "People get so much more out of the program with experience," Fadule said...
...indeed, the author labors nearly 564 pages convincing us he is not simply writing another legal thriller. Instead of the brilliant young lawyer, Mitch McDeer (played by Tom Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader with a heavily dramatized Southern family saga spliced into a patchwork of legal confrontations and cliched Mafia tough-talk...
...Coens create highly original takes on the macabre theme of human pavement art but cannot connect them into anything meaningful or entertaining. CEO Waring Hudsucker takes a running start from the end of the long boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep...
There is a postfeminist argument for the Wonderbra: liberation means that women can dress any way they want. No more the little bow tie and the boxy gray suit or the Sears orthopedically correct underwear beneath it. Women should feel free to be sexy in the boardroom as well as the bedroom. But then the message becomes: Notice my breasts before you notice my recommendation to go long on pork-belly futures...
...Detroit gave Eaton's succession at Chrysler much chance at all. A career GM man, he had spent his recent years in Europe, well away from the turmoil and strife that had gripped his industry's hometown. He was something of a shotgun compromise in Chrysler's boardroom showdown between Iacocca and president Bob Lutz, and in the view of some skeptics, mainly lucked out in grabbing the prize after all the hard work had been done. Eaton arrived alone, brought in none of his deputies (not even his secretary) and fired no one. In Chrysler's recent history...