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...cross purposes. At Du Pont, an exhaustive series of new training courses helps employees explore sensitive issues dividing the sexes and races. In a three- day program, men and women hash out their differences in an encounter-style setting. Another seminar explores a topic that only recently has gained boardroom respectability: how management attitudes affect employee performance...
This triumph of cottage capitalism may not sound like a model of international business strategy. But the program that helped Rickenbacker secure her loan is part of a worldwide effort to use "microlending" to provide credit to people without collateral. Its roots lie not in a U.S. university, boardroom or foundation but thousands of miles away in, of all places, the villages of Bangladesh. Development officers in the Third World have found that self-employment, backed by training and access to credit, can be a path out of poverty...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...
...nine months advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi has admitted that it was enduring a rough year. But when chairman Maurice Saatchi faced investment analysts in the company's luxurious London boardroom two weeks ago, the news was far worse than anyone had feared. After 19 years of uninterrupted growth, Saatchi's pretax profits for 1989 collapsed, dropping from $217 million last year to just $34 million, an 84% decline. After taxes and other provisions were deducted, the world's largest advertising firm reported its first net loss, of $92 million...
Ford goes about doing good while doing well. He plays golf all over the world for fun and charity, reminds everybody he was an Eagle Scout and still lives by the code, practices old-fashioned partisan politics in election season and openly relishes the money from the boardroom...