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Professors still sometimes turn into presidents, but not at Harvard. (The last two to have a shot were Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 and Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip M. Leder '56--who lost out to Rudenstine.) Wellesley plucked Diana Chapman Walsh from the School of Public Health faculty to serve as its leader...
...example, when I posted my Lauryn Hill album, I saw that 31 other people had grown tired of her as well. So I picked a relatively low price of 6 swap points and got an offer the same day. I then used those points to snag a Tracy Chapman CD from someone else. The biggest drawback: because MrSwap sends out a stamped, padded mailer to the seller, who then has to remail it to the buyer, it took nearly two weeks...
...Princeton Review was founded around the time of Lennon's shooting by some whiz kid who combined Mark David Chapman's obsessive personality with sound business sense. This lunatic registered for every SAT the Educational Testing Service offered, learning the test inside and out. Upon realizing that it was a huge load of crap, our hero went back to his parents' Manhattan apartment and started tutoring. Twenty years later, his business has effectively ended Kaplan's monopoly on test preparation...
...whom in the family a business will be passed down and why--a major decision that can have so many mixed emotions and feelings attached to it," Messervey says. "Had we known my brothers' feelings more about the business, we might have avoided having their feelings hurt," says Marshall-Chapman. "These are very sensitive issues for families...
...Marshall-Chapman and the other owners of nearly 13 million family-owned businesses in the U.S., the decision about how to pass the corporate torch gracefully to the next generation is an exercise in reason over emotion, usually coupled with legal wrangling and considerable financial finesse. From the elder generation's point of view, you want to make sure you will be taken care of in your golden years. At the same time, the business must be passed on in a way that helps ensure both its continued success and the financial welfare of the younger generations who rely...