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...rules, the quality of an Elsie's roast beef sandwich, the high-stakes Crimson-Lampoon crew race, the tutelage of Eliot House Master John H. Finley '25, the heady classes of McGeorge Bundy, Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Zbigniew Brzezinski an embarrassing Harvard-Yale game, and the legendary Lamont Dupont...
...importers, though, are giving customers a break. France's S.T. Dupont recently lowered U.S. prices about 25% on some of its fine writing instruments. Its handmade black lacquer pen went from $160 to $125. By discounting at a time when few other importers are doing so, the company hopes to boost its U.S. market share. Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco's chic pot-and- pan retailer, has marked down its French-made copper cookware...
...devasting in the history of mankind and for the extermination of millions of innocent people. We have no way of knowing how many lives could have been spared had not ITT produced and perfected the communications systems used in Germany bombers and submarines, or bad not RCA, General Motors, DuPont, Chemical or Chuse Manhattan been similarly tied to the Third Reich. We must learn lessons from history...
General Motors is not the only major corporation to adopt intrapreneurship. Data General, DuPont, Texas Instruments and AT&T are all trying to nurture intrapreneurs. Even smaller companies are trying to catch the spirit. At W.L. Gore & Associates, a privately held firm in Delaware founded by the husband- and-wife team of Wilbert and Genevieve Gore, the employees, or "associates" as they are called, are grouped into teams of no more than 150 to 200 people to encourage new and different ideas and products. One such team developed GORE-TEX, a line of insulating fabrics used in space suits, tents...
...lived up to his words by crushing the Crimson at DuPont...