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...billion corporate-accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, the scandal has been called India's Enron. There are many similarities: inflated assets, a disgraced but politically powerful chairman, an auditor under a cloud, even an attempted suicide. (Satyam's chief financial officer, Srinivas Vadlamani, was unsuccessful. Enron executive J. Clifford Baxter died.) There is one big difference. Enron imploded, and its employees were kicked to the curb. But Satyam's workers, who number about 50,000, may be spared sweeping layoffs...
...said. Now I stood on Rabbi Hazan’s doorstep. The woman glanced at her full table, each chair already occupied. Turns out, I had the wrong Rabbi Hazan. “It sounds like a bad Yiddish joke,” my friend Clifford said after I told him the story. But I saw “The Case of the Mistaken Hazans” as a beautiful realization of “mishpacha,” the Yiddish word for family, in its largest sense. It’s a word for your mother?...
...Mark L. Clifford is an author and the executive director of the Asia Business Council
...Staff writer Wyatt P. Gleichauf can be reached at wgleich@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...Though a leaf-crunching walk through the woods may be a relaxing forum for exchanging ideas with other department members during a weekend retreat, booking hotel reservations for 300 people for three nights is an example of a cost the department could do without, said department chair Clifford J. Tabin, who added that this year’s retreat will be held in an auditorium on campus...