Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledge he could find. "What Europe particularly lacks in its technological gap with the U.S. is management techniques," he says. Instead of returning home immediately, he will join a U.S. company because "it will start out by giving me responsibility." His choice is Cresap, McCormick and Paget, a consulting firm that will pay him about $15,000. Even before graduation, he hired out as a consultant on his thesis topic-a computer-based method of protecting companies against currency devaluations...
...help, Morris Brown got an added $136,000. She has applied for a White House Fellowship, and hopes to spend the next year as an aide to a Cabinet officer. "I love problem solving," she says, which is why she ultimately plans to join a Manhattan management-consulting firm, McKinsey...
...Goldwater campaign. Barr, who also has a law degree, plans to spend the next ten years making enough money so that he can afford full-time politics. Still, he turned down a $25,000 offer from a consulting company and instead accepted $15,000 and commissions from a new firm that specializes in underwriting small and medium-sized issues. "I don't want to conform," says Barr, who likes the freedom that a smaller company offers...
...more prefabrication you can accomplish, the less costly the building will be." He is so certain that he can make his company's profits go up that he persuaded the president to pay him, on top of his salary of $12,000, stock bonuses if the firm's annual growth rate exceeds...
Jonathan Stern, 24, also New York University, stands No. 1 in his graduate business class of 470 and has been working part time at $37 a day studying property accounting for Sinclair Oil. He will now join John P. Maguire & Co,, a Manhattan factoring firm that advances money to small businesses; this will give Stern the chance to study a variety of businesses. He has other reasons for preferring a small company: "I once had an offer from General Motors, but my idol is Ralph Nader." He adds: "I think that there is more to life than earnings per share...