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...Ernst & Young India, expects more big deals in the next couple of years. This freer market has its hang-ups, though. Vineet Nigam, an analyst at ICRA, an Indian ratings agency, points out that average revenue per mobile-phone customer is declining as competition increases and as companies expand from cities into small towns. Still, the number of Indians using a mobile phone will probably have grown 50% this year. That kind of opportunity is bound to attract more attention...
...best--to shoot for? Plenty, especially on the global front. "On just about any Sunday morning, the leaderboard looks like the U.N. roll call," she says. The LPGA Tour will probably add a stop in Thailand in 2006, and Bivens is talking about China next. Back home, she'll expand an LPGA marketing campaign that spotlights players' personalities. The tag line: These Girls Rock! --By Jeff...
Change and creativity are Lars Nygaard's two favorite words. Last month the Dane became the CEO of Spanair, Spain's fast-expanding No. 2 airline. Top of his agenda: "Breaking down walls. I want to change the culture in our company," says Nygaard, 39, who was formerly Spanair's CFO. "Where I come from, things are less hierarchical." Nygaard comes from Spanair's parent, the Scandinavian carrier SAS, where he got his start. With his open-plan management and quick response to new ideas, he says, Spanair can thrive in a tough market: "We have a cost structure comparable...
...Across surveyed institutions, alumni participation dropped a single percentage point from 2001 to 2004, declining each year.But the institutions surveyed by the CAE may not be comparable to Harvard, Rapier wrote.Ann E. Kaplan, director of the CAE survey, offered one possible explanation for Harvard’s decline.As universities expand their records to include more alumni, the rising alumni count can artificially lower the percentage of contributors, she wrote in an e-mail.However, this phenomenon has not been a “significant factor” for Harvard, Rapier wrote.In a press release earlier this year analyzing the national downturn, Kaplan...
...Street location two weeks ago, officially changed its name to Boloco Inspired Burritos on Tuesday.The name change to Boloco—short for “Boston Local Company”—was motivated in part by the Boston-based burrito shop’s plans to expand nationally. A name as generic as The Wrap cannot be legally protected under trademark laws.“We currently have 10 locations, and as we hope to expand, we didn’t want a name that couldn’t be protected,” said...