Word: centricity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suspect. But it turns out to be the work of Troy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39, both of Covington, Ky.--two former ad-agency guys who met while recording a radio commercial in nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. They buddied up, started writing funny bits and launched a new-media-centric creative agency called Big Fat Institute...
...studies at Harvard, Rachel E. Whitaker ’08 started off her college career on the crew team. This fact might seem odd for a woman of considerable power within the arts scene at Harvard. As president of the Cinematic, Whitaker helped Harvard’s only film-centric publication grow into a thriving organization. As president of the Signet, an exclusive arts and letters society and 138-year-old Harvard institution, Whitaker helped shape the tone of Harvard’s artistic community as a whole. But before all this, Whitaker left an unsatisfying freshman rowing experience...
...intelligence. They are descriptive terms that refer to the apolitical nature of rural people. Industrialization excited Marx because he believed that capitalism could be overthrown only through a consolidation of people in cities; then the masses could achieve political power, instead of remaining isolated in their previously family-centric, “private” lives...
...machines, preground coffee, drive-throughs, fewer soft chairs and less carpeting--was made for a reason: to smooth operations or boost sales, two inescapable goals for a publicly traded company. Those may have been the right choices at the time, Schultz wrote, but together they ultimately diluted the coffee-centric experience. "We want to have the courage to do the things that support the core purpose and the reason for being and not veer off and get caught up in chasing revenue, because long-term value for the shareholder can only be achieved if you create long-term value...
...plans come after two rough quarters for Starbucks, which saw traffic and comparable-stores sales in its U.S. business fall for the first time ever. The slip is partly due to softening consumer spending, but Starbucks executives insist that by retraining the company on a coffee-centric customer experience, they can revive sales and the brand. "This is in many ways self-induced," says Schultz. "That's why I feel so confident and optimistic we can fix it ourselves...