Word: exporters
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...attitude is similar for leading Asian exporting countries. In Japan, paying off foreign officials to secure business is regarded as normal. Likewise, in Korea, the government takes the attitude that businessmen should not be hamstrung in their efforts to develop export markets and get overseas contracts...
...There's more to life than football," says Rich Szaro '71, and he should know. Now an export manager for a New York City clothing firm and co-founder of Energetic Propulsions, Ltd., developers of a new, patented, horizontal motion bicycle, Szaro has shed his pads and helmet for good. There was a time not so long ago, however, when football was Szaro's whole life--from schoolboy running back to NFL placekicker with the New Orleans Saints...
Fortunately, Szaro already had a trade to go back to. Between college and his years in the NFL, Szaro had worked as an export manager with Colgate-Palmolive, travelling extensively throughout South America, Europe, and especially the Far East. Szaro recalls as one of the most rewarding times of his life a stint as liason between skilled Jewish professionals emigrating from Russia and American businesses, many emigrants whom he place through Harvard connections...
Szaro returned to the export business and continues to travel to Europe and South America frequently, "but when I choose to, not when I have to follow a rigorous schedule...
...have to export oil in the quantity that you can absorb in order to produce changes within the country--to create new jobs and solve the gigantic problems of overpopulation, agricultural disaster, worker's immigration to the U.S. and unemployment...