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After graduation in 1985?fewer than one-third of Hermann's classmates were women?there were three job offers for every student. Hermann turned down an entry-level post at L'Oréal in order to supervise special projects at the Comité Colbert, a luxury-goods trade association. (Maureen Chiquet, Chanel's global CEO, who is the same age as Hermann, started at L'Oréal as a brand manager for hair color.) When a L'Oréal director inquired why Hermann went elsewhere, she told him, "I didn't want to spend my days selling shampoo in the south...
Could this deal save the U.S. auto industry? It would certainly help. Once GM sets up a VEBA, Ford will probably follow. Chrysler, which became a privately held company in August and has far fewer retirees, has so far balked. "It's not our issue," says a Chrysler official. The companies can use the freed-up cash to spend on developing and selling better cars to take on Toyota, which this year surpassed GM in sales. But that's in the long run. In the short run, funding the trust could put carmakers in a tighter cash squeeze unless they...
...injections and changes to employee benefits. Two months later, "Slasher," as Walsh was known while rescuing the Irish carrier from the brink, cut hundreds of senior managers. Soon afterward, he unveiled a blueprint for shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion, partly through further job cuts. With fewer bills to pay, BA looks set next year to hit its target operating margin of 10%, its highest ever...
...immune," says Ernst & Young financial-services analyst Ashvin Parekh. Foreign investors sank $98 billion into India from 2003 to 2006, according to Morgan Stanley, and every major investment bank in the world is chasing that business. Less free-flowing credit will inevitably lead to Indian companies' eyeing fewer deals and therefore to even more competition for their business. In India, commissions and fees are often less than a quarter of what they are in the West, so if foreign banks want to make money, says Alok Aggrawal, chairman of market watcher Evalueserve, they will have to go after the biggest...
...Crimson also entered tonight’s contest with its own set of accolades. Up until today, Harvard was one of only 11 teams nation-wide with a single loss or fewer...