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...firms are on a shopping spree?and increasingly looking abroad. In the past year, the Tata Group has snapped up everything from American telecom firm Tyco Global to venerable British teamaker Tetley. Other Indian companies have bought foreign pharmaceutical firms, auto-parts makers and aluminum suppliers. Last week a consortium led by India's Videocon Industries agreed to buy South Korean appliance maker Daewoo Electronics for $700 million. "Indian companies have become competitive, and they realize that," says Gurcharan Das, former CEO of Procter & Gamble India and author of the best-selling India Unbound. "The level of corporate governance...
While the memo obtained by The Crimson contained the questions and responses asked only of Harvard students, the survey also included a general section given to students of the 31 colleges in the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE...
...Once again, though, people slowly but surely got smart. The World Wide Web Consortium, the international organization that sets standards for the Web, came up with guidelines for making a website accessible to the disabled. They included using prominent headings on the site, putting invisible alt-text - it's what causes messages to pop up when you move a cursor over an image - in graphics, and allowing functions to be controlled by keystrokes rather than just mouse clicks. Many companies followed the guidelines, allowing Sexton and his peers to use software like JAWS for translating the websites into spoken words...
...next three years and cut free cash flow by €6.3 billion. Airbus and its parent company, EADS, do indeed have a wiring problem - but it's one that has afflicted the companies' management structure as much as the guts of the planes themselves. Airbus, a four-nation consortium backed by millions of euros of taxpayers' money, was once hailed as a model of European industrial cooperation. In fact, its structure, which distributes management and blue-collar jobs among its various state and private owners, has turned Airbus into a nightmare of corporate governance. It has become an enterprise...
Harvard and its teaching hospitals have invested $200,000 to spearhead an effort that would help the spouses of faculty members find jobs in the region. The New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (NE-HERC), a online partnership of 36 academic institutions, was launched over the weekend, specifically to accommodate dual-career searches of spouses and partners. In trying to address this challenge, the NE-HERC offers directories of regional resources such as childcare, lifestyle, and relocation services. The NE-HERC website had 12,000 visitors yesterday, and already has over 300 registered users. “In the past...