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...University’s Kellogg School of Management and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Over the course of the three days, HBS faculty instructed the players with the MBA’s case method. Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and former chairman of the MBA program W. Carl Kester said he developed the curriculum to best complement the players’ needs. “We are not trying to cover the whole waterfront,” Kester said. “The program is all with the aim to enable people to take action on their ideas...
Patience is not always thebest tactic for corporate chieftains to use when they are fighting those who wish to oust them, but it seems to have worked for Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons in his battle against Carl Icahn. In August, Icahn and a group of investors launched a bid to split up the Time Warner media empire (which includes Time Inc., publisher of this magazine). But Icahn could not win the support of key shareholders, who balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons...
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...
...marriage to Carl Friedan ended in 1969. She is survived by her three children...
...Some party operatives tried to leave the impression that Thursday's vote had no relevance for the November election. "No matter who the majority leader is, things are going to get done," says Carl Forti, spokesman for the National Republican Campaign Committee. But other insiders were less sanguine about the prospects in November. "Scandal trumps all," said one senior Republican aide, "that's the problem." Democrats, for their part, are happy with the outcome. As Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, put it, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...