Word: epicent
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Like a mysterious and frustratingly persistent rash (see Mather Lather 2006) or an annoying kid sibling, Collegeboxes, the company that turned summertime storage into a boondoggle of epic proportions last year, is back. Collegeboxes—proclaimed the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients (whatever that means) by The Wall Street Journal—has re-inked a contract with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) to provide summer storage on campus. Their slick website promises three Justin Timberlake and Andy Sandberg-like simple steps—step one: put your junk in a box; step...
...great concept that could not be sustained by the folks who got it off the ground. That's not going to happen to JetBlue. On Thursday the airline's board of directors pulled the ripcord on JetBlue's founder and CEO, David Neeleman in the wake of February's epic meltdown, in which a winter storm left thousands of passengers stranded. Some sat in JetBlue planes at JFK for up to 8 hours. You don't do that in a city where people get ticked off if a subway is delayed for 30 seconds...
...Worth it? Not as much as it used to be, after Zack Snyder's 300 gave audiences the feeling of an epic using blue-screen technology on a soundstage...
...victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. That's probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the bank's staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted...
...decision to walk, Siemens' stock tanked. But Kleinfeld's has risen. He was hoping that three to five years down the road, people would look back and say Siemens had a problem but used it as an opportunity to become totally transparent and remodel the company for the epic infrastructure build-out that is unfolding around the world. It may still happen, but Kleinfeld's view of his handiwork will probably be that of a spectator...