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...Although these three groups may be the most prominent entrepreneurship groups at Harvard, there is a growing market for similar student organizations. One such group is the newly formed Harvard chapter of Kairos. Chapter president Vishal Lugani ’11 describes the group as “an intercollegiate and intracollegiate organization that’s aimed at fostering social ties between entrepreneurs.” Unlike some other longstanding organizations, Kairos requires its members to already have some level of involvement in an entrepreneurial venture...
...Rycroft fought back her tears and Mesnick turned to Malaney, the show's fans took to the Internet in a rage, decrying Mesnick as a "jackass," "playboy" and "bastard." It was clear that this particular chapter of reality TV struck some as a little too real. Yet creator and executive producer Mike Fleiss says the fireworks of March 2 reflected the best, not the worst, of the genre. "I'm not really surprised by this; it's just a sign that the show is working," he tells TIME. "That's really your job, to create television that the whole country...
AlixPartners, a turnaround firm, said at the beginning of the year that 10% to 26% of retailers were in financial distress and were in danger of filing for Chapter 11. It is worth considering how the researchers came up with that number, given that there are tens of thousands of retailers and hundreds of thousands of stores in America. Why wasn't the number 9% or 27%? The answer is that the forecast is virtually useless, something like counting the number of poisonous snakes in an Indiana Jones movie...
...large retailers close 20% or so of their stores, most of them will avoid becoming distressed or candidates for Chapter 11. The AjixPartner's estimate was too high and did not take into account the rate at which the industry could cut off limbs to save the body...
...explaining the publisher's decision to take on the new title. "Nearly 50 million people read The Purpose Driven Life - that's nearly 20% of America!" The math added up for Reader's Digest, even as the company is preparing to either undergo financial restructuring or file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "If we touched just 1% of Evangelicals in America," Alston continues, "that's 900,000 members." (The publisher printed 400,000 copies of the premiere issue and plans to roll out half a million copies of future editions...