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Back at headquarters in Hangzhou, Wang recently sat at a table with some Thai businessmen seeking investment in a phone plant. A TV-news crew had videotaped their arrival. A Thai executive asked whether Holley had reviewed their proposal. "Not yet," he was told. If Holley were to invest, the executive asked, what was its timeline? "The sooner the better!" Wang replied. And with a handshake, China's hottest private company seemed on the way to its next deal...
...least, its genre—has a long history. “The TMNTijuana Bible” falls under the category of hentai, a pornographic subset of Japanese anime and manga. Janicak explains that hentai is a socially acceptable genre in Japan—so much so that businessmen often read it on the bus. The popularity of hentai is such that a rudimentary Google search on the topic yielded a massive 5,500,000 results. Links included sites promoting XXX videos and featuring erotic pictures of everything from Disney’s Ariel to Dragonball...
...reaching beyond CEOs, who are overwhelmingly white and male, boards are tapping a rich new source of talent. "This is going to be the largest short-term opportunity we've seen," says Carl Brooks, president of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization of African-American businessmen. Of its 283 members, all of whom serve within three levels of the CEO position at their companies, only one-quarter serve on a board. But after years of only spotty interest from boards and recruiters, the organization now gets inquiries every week. Similarly, 16% of corporate officers of the 500 largest public companies...
Only once has the band missed a game since regular football was resumed at Harvard in 1946, the Stanford game. At that time, 1948, a fund raising campaign supported by Harvard alumni and Cambridge businessmen fell just short of the amount required to take the musicians to California
...them. But, says the 39-year-old whose family departed Saigon when he was 12, "There's always been tension between those who stayed and those who left." Many Vietnamese see returnees as carpetbaggers who escaped the lean 1980s and now flaunt their wealth. Viet Kieu businessmen speak of random price hikes from local merchants, sometimes open hostility. Thai says some of that may be their own fault: "Many returnees come in with the mentality that we're better, smarter, wealthier?and we'll tell you how to do things. That's left a bad reputation...