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...Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which have been languishing in Chapter 11 for years and you get a picture of an industry in crisis. Since 2000 the airlines have destroyed $34 billion in shareholder wealth, according to industry analyst Vaughn Cordle, and are on track to lose another $6 billion this year...
...Harvard Business School, and then a job at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he met Wexner, who was shopping around for consultants. Fiske spent his last six years at BCG working mainly with the Limited, and in 2003 he and co-author Michael Silverstein devoted a whole chapter of Trading Up to Wexner and Victoria's Secret. When Pritchard left Bath & Body Works in 2003, Fiske got the job despite the fact that it's unusual for a nonmerchant to run a big retailer...
With the completion of other expansion projects, Harvard has shown its ability to build affiliate housing without adversely affecting the lives of the community. If such an approach can be incorporated into the Cowperthwaite Street project, this chapter in Harvards growth can be a positive one for members of the graduate and undergraduate communities alike. Otherwise, we are forced to question the administrations commitment to the quality of undergraduate residential life, attention to the needs of the residential community, and ability to expand in a manner that will benefit not only the University but the entire Harvard community...
...case that broke open last week was only the first chapter in an extensive clampdown on drug dealing in the financial community. Authorities initially picked up the trail in Brooklyn, where they took notice of a mink- coated brunet named Theresa Masi. A known consort of drug dealers with Mafia connections, Masi made regular rounds of Wall Street executive suites. Authorities learned that Masi was delivering cocaine weekly to five top-level * managers. Under a law-enforcement policy to charge dealers only, those users were never prosecuted, but their descriptions of drug consumption on Wall Street inspired the U.S. Drug...
...Your chapter introductions convey the idea that words can make a difference. Is this a message your family taught...