Word: ceo
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...seeking in the midst of an economic downturn. The conference, attended by about 150 students and held in the Charles Hotel, featured panels on creative career tracks like entertainment, sports, and fashion, followed by a luncheon that seated students with industry panelists. The luncheon featured Ali, who is the CEO of HazraH Entertainment—an independent film company specializing in urban entertainment, according to its Web site. She is best known for her role as Ashley Banks on the popular 1990s sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” A few students have secured...
...company has promised to tighten lending standards and increase collections. On the product side, the company knows it must offer more essentials. "We continue to invest in our food offering in recognition of its importance in driving greater frequency, increasing guest loyalty and making Target a preferred shopping destination," CEO Gregg Steinhafel said during Target's fourth-quarter earnings call. For example, last year the company opened its first distribution center for perishable goods like fruits, vegetables and meats in Lake City, Fla. Target is slated to open another distribution center this year, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. "That...
...also turning to Academic Approach, which has ramped up its online program within the last year: "They're coming back for Child No. 2 and now saying, rather than work with that slightly more expensive, one-on-one tutor, they would like to try the online situation now," says CEO Matthew Pietrafetta. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...wasn't what the Chileans thought. Tompkins and his wife Kristine DeWitt, the former CEO of the ultragreen clothing company Patagonia, were planning to create a nature sanctuary in the middle of Chilean rain forest. Slowly, gradually, as Humes aptly chronicles, they convinced the government that they wanted nothing more than to protect one of the most beautiful and heretofore untouched stretches of forest in the world - what the Chilean poet Mario Miranda Soussi once called the "Patagonia of infinite land and water." Today Tompkins and his wife own 2 million acres in Chile and Argentina centered on the private...
...Last month, Aso's Finance Minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, was forced to resign after appearing to be drunk (he said he was suffering the after-effects of cold medication) at a press conference during an important international meeting. "Typically recessions were good for the LDP," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, "but this time around it is sort of pathetic. The government has no credibility. Any policy that comes out now gets greeted not with just a yawn but with utter indifference...