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...will find any quick fix for its tax problems. Like other southern European nations, the country's culture of tax evasion is deeply rooted, woven into the very fabric of relations between the citizen and state. "Greeks love their country, but they don't trust it," says a small businessman who asked to be called Dimitris, saying he feared repercussion from the authorities if he gave his real name. "They tell us the state is broken. There is no money for health, for pensions, for education. On the other hand, we see people building big houses with swimming pools." (Read...
...following its own Hollywood film script, Survival International fingers a villain: a London-based mining company called Vedanta Resources that is controlled by billionaire businessman Anil Agarwal. Vedanta's aluminum subsidiary plans to invest $2.5 billion to extract some 78 million tons of bauxite from the Niyamgiri mountain. Its chief operating officer, Mukesh Kumar, insists that the mine will benefit the Dongria - the company will set aside 5% of the mine's pretax profits for a local development agency - and that it has followed all the relevant Indian laws. "Whatever we do, we do in a transparent manner," he says...
...just stopped in the middle of the discussion and said, ‘Let’s cut to the chase, we want to sign Noni,’” he recalls. “I was trying to be a businessman about this whole situation. Internally, I was exploding, jumping...
Under the tentative conditions of the current contract, the team of Cleantech Investment researchers, led by Samir Patel ’12, will submit potential investment proposals for final approval to prominent businessman Peter van Stolk, who is providing the funding...
Extraordinary Measures, based on a book by Wall Street Journal reporter Geeta Anand, describes the mission of businessman John Crowley (Fraser) to find doctors who could develop a drug to treat Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder that has affected two of his three children. A Harvard M.B.A., Crowley quits his job as a management consultant and moves his family to be near doctors working on a cure. He soon founds his own biotech company to steer and spur the doctors' research. (In the movie, the medics are compacted into the single, ornery person of Harrison Ford.) Do they find...