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...Japanese invest abroad, more and more U.S. businessmen will find themselves doing deals with them. The corporate style that works for Americans at home may not go over with their new colleagues or competitors. Neff and many other Boston-area executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...
...Veteran Boston-area snow observer William P. Ryan was not so enthusiastic about the Monday's snowfall. As Cambridge Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, the man in charge of cleaning the streets and getting the city moving again after it snows, he had to put in his first late night of the season. But he called this week's storm a small...
Advertising on cable television is only part of what the Harvard Cooperative Society is doing to gear up for the holiday crush o, customers at its six Boston-area stores. Officials in the Harvard Square headquarters say they're expecting 50 percent more people this month than in Novermber--largely because in the month before Christmas the store will be open a total of 109 extra hours, including every Sunday...
Rauch draws words like "genius" and "supreme" from observers and recently won a $1,000 national arts award. Warner works with a wide range of Boston-area professionals and will probably direct a show off-Broadway before the year...
Corporation members themselves don't hesitate to acknowledge that a good deal of tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are one of the country's leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign...