Word: cooing
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...profits rise 51%, to $56.9 million, for the quarter that ended Aug. 1. In a depressed retail environment, same-store sales jumped 6.8% for the quarter; the retailer's shares have risen over 40% since mid-February. "For us, the world is our oyster," Gary Philbin, Dollar Tree's COO, said at a recent analyst presentation. "With other folks canceling deals or cutting back, Dollar Tree is still out there to take advantage and we can move quickly." (See 10 big recession surprises...
...cars. Who knew? Maybe including my love of cars on my admissions application might have been an asset rather than a liability after all?—David I. Fulton-Howard ’08-10 is a senior Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He goes coo coo for Corollas...
...going to take credit for that experiment. It was Paul Rozin who demonstrated it, I simply adapted for a large audience to make a dramatic point. At some point during the talk, I'll pull out a fountain pen and say, "This belonged to Albert Einstein," and people will coo and ask to hold it. People want to physically touch things. And then I'll pull out a tattered sweater and will say, "Here's a sweater from somebody famous. You might want to put it on." Of course, everyone's suspicious, but then you offer them fifty bucks...
...meant as a condemnation of Mr. Wagoner, who has devoted his life to this company," Obama said in condemning him. "Rather, it's a recognition that it will take a new vision and new direction to create the GM of the future." In Wagoner's place, the President promoted COO Fritz Henderson, who has worked at the company for 25 years. Henderson gets the message: "One, go deeper, go harder; and second, go faster. And so we got it. We understand exactly what that means." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...history will be both an asset and a liability in his new post. A company lifer, he has presided over GM's growth in regions around the world, earning accolades as a talented, tough and steady leader. But as a consummate insider who formerly served as President and COO, he must also shake the public perception that feckless leadership has played a large part in GM's slide toward insolvency. Henderson is known for keeping his cool in tough spots, but there are few hotter seats in the business world than the one he's just landed in. (See pictures...