Word: economists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jiang Zemin will continue to seek his Emperor's robes. His next hope for greatness may lie outside the economic sphere, in Taiwan. "Jiang wants some kind of date for reunification. Then he will go down in history," says Andy Xie, chief economist for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. But moving mountains and changing the weather may prove easier than persuading 22 million Taiwanese that their future is best assured under Emperor Jiang. Until then, WTO may be as good as it gets for the smiling President...
Regardless, maybe successful companies should just adopt the following enlightened policy: be nice to competitors on e-mail. After all, Microsoft was so darn pugnacious towards Netscape in some of its internal memoranda! Pretend the market is a touchy-feely place. Sanitize the weeping and gnashing of teeth that economist Joseph Schumpeter identified as crucial to a market's quintessential process of "creative destruction." And above all, be sensitive--you should be well within your rights if you do all that, correct...
...which I later found out I had miscalculated) and cultivated an eccentric passion for dreary weather. I decorated my notebooks with the Union Jack (explaining to my classmates in the strongest of tones that it was not the logo for Reebok) and used my pocket money to buy the Economist. I beamed with delight when relatives humorously referred to me as the "English gentleman." The view of the Big Ben stirs emotions rooted in my deepest childhood...
...next blow came last May, when HIID's then-director, world-famous economist and Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, announced he was leaving the Institute in little over a month...
Sach's departure was, by all accounts, unrelated to the scandal in Russia. The economist simply had too many other projects and decided HIID was the one he would give...