Word: core
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...Moving into new businesses is no slam dunk. "There is always a risk when a company acquires a business that's outside their core competency," says Ivey. For example, when eBay gobbled up Skype, its plan to tap into Skype's massive customer base failed, and it's now selling Skype...
...point about Moore. A random core sample taken from A Gate at the Stairs reveals a density of wry, pitilessly accurate observation unlike anything else in contemporary fiction: "The Mexican strawberries in the refrigerator had grown the wise and cheery beards of Santa Claus." Looking out through an icicle-hung window is like "living in the cold, dead mouth of a very mean snowman." Anybody else wanting to be the greatest writer of Moore's generation is now throwing his or her hat on the ground and stomping...
...University of Chicago Booth School of Business, students will be able to take the new course “The Analytics of Financial Crises” as well as new courses on ethics and social responsibility. Yale School of Management has added a first-year core curriculum course entitled “The Global Macroeconomy,” as well as several electives...
...Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth has taken a more robust approach, with a full curricular review and the implementation of a core leadership course and a seminar in critical analysis, according to an e-mail from Tuck Dean Paul Danos...
...right of varsity athletes to stay has gone unchallenged—perhaps for good reason—but the university should not forget its core academic priorities. Harvard prides itself on all types of achievement, academic and athletic, and it should not have to sacrifice one for the other...