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...Vagts moved to New York City to work at a big law firm until the "military caught up with...
...regardless of the very real need to evaluate the University critically in our final opportunity to do so, it is my firm belief that most, if not all, of the value of a Harvard education is self-created by the student. Out of a strange convergence of resources and circumstances, learning is attained and relationships forged...
...father Thomas G. Gill worked for a billboard advertising firm hit hard by the economic crisis of the 1930s; Richard lived what he called a "tight, but very happy childhood," drawn to vocal performance by his mother Myrtle, a music teacher...
...security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with alerts on everything from the threat of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia to the possibility of flu-tainted chicken in Hong Kong...
Reaching the far corners of today's global market means not always staying in four-star hotels. Consider the experience of Howard Kaplan, 36, executive vice president in charge of technology-transfer projects for TransChem Finance & Trade, a Delaware-based firm that works primarily with developing and former communist countries to make their agricultural and energy systems more efficient. Local contacts always strive to give him a taste of their culture. He has eaten (by hand) a spit-roasted cow in Romania, hunted for boar in Tatarstan and ridden a camel through Mongolia. Getting the local touch often means bedding...