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...1980s, Rink Dickinson wanted to go into business to help an unusual constituency: his vendors. He proposed to import coffee by paying impoverished Latin American farmers double the going rate for their beans. Reaction from potential investors was predictably cool. "People were just, like, 'That's a bad idea,'" he recalls. "The concept of having your values embedded in everything you did in your business ... was just not happening in any major way at all." Nonetheless, with just $100,000 from family, friends and a few supportive idealists, Equal Exchange was born...
...also currently in the process of selecting a new dean, following the departure of Kim B. Clark ’74 who left last summer to head Brigham Young University-Idaho. Two of the six prospective deans on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ short-list—Dickinson Professor of Accounting Srikant M. Datar and Chapman Professor of Business Administration Nitin Nohria—are natives of India. Most consider Datar to be the frontrunner in the search. Neither Datar nor Nohria responded to requests for comment yesterday...
...Dickinson Professor of Accounting Srikant M. Datar has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Kim B. Clark ’74 as the next dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS), according to professors at HBS and other top business schools.Clark’s abrupt departure this summer to lead Brigham Young University-Idaho left the school at a crossroads, as faculty debate the school’s guiding vision for the future.In interviews with The Crimson, HBS professors said Datar was a frontrunner for the deanship, along with six other frequently mentioned candidates, four of whom...
Kopko and his brother Matthew Kopko, a sophomore at Princeton, founded DormAid last spring to offer professional cleaning services for dorm rooms on both of their campuses. The service has since expanded to Boston University, Babson College, Dickinson College, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania...
...allowing more goals in a game than it had all year. The Blue Devils continued to swarm on offense, and Stopford struck again quickly once play resumed, doubling up with an assist from midfielder Laura Suchowski a little over four minutes into the half. Midfielders Julie Tromp and Marian Dickinson wrapped up the scoring for Duke, tallying goals at the 50:19 and 66:29 mark, respectively. Despite forays into the Blue Devil circle and a couple penalty corners, the Crimson could not manage to level a shot at goalie Caitlin Williams. Duke out-shot Harvard 26-0, and worked...