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In an ideal world, Cheng-san Chen would realize that the only way to increase his sales would be to lower prices in hopes of moving more volume. With his new diligence in ID’ing students and his higher prices, Harvard denizens have lost the two main impetuses...
Though the merger did produce significant cost savings, it did not improve HP's strategic position. In consumer PCs, HP is still getting punished by Dell, which just reported record numbers. On the computer- services side, HP is mostly stuck in the maintenance business, where margins are shrinking. Even HP...
Slow down! That's the big advice derived from this year's list of top complaints from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and the Consumer Federation of America. Often, we're in such a hurry to buy, sell or fix something, we fail to take the commonsense measures...
Don't tell that to Guy Cubaynes, a truffle harvester from the southern French town of Lalbenque, who is taking his 250-kg pig named Kiki for her first truffle hunt of the season. Cubaynes' family has been gathering truffles since the 1850s, searching for the fungi under the shade...
France is now counting on modern science to catch the truffle imposters. The National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) has developed a DNA analysis to distinguish French fungi from the Chinese ones without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle...