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Consultants from the Cecil Group, an urban planning firm that is advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority, unveiled several versions of a plan to turn Barry’s Corner—a large intersection at North Harvard St. and Western Ave. that currently contains only a gas station—into a community hub that contains restaurants, cafes and a park. To illustrate their particular vision, the presenters made comparisons to other lively urban centers that are bordered by institutions, such as Harvard Square and University Park near...
...UCLA before working at Sony Pictures from 1989 to 1994, according to a company spokesman. He went on to serve in a small consulting group within PricewaterhouseCoopers dedicated to strategy and operational consulting for motion-picture companies. He left in 1999 to join EHS Partners, a start-up consulting firm. A 2001 story in the Daily Telegraph of London, under the headline "Bust, but big bucks for the big boys," called Rajaram a "winner" in a deal for NanoUniverse, a Los Angeles- and London-based venture fund taken public on the London Stock Exchange, the Los Angeles Times reported...
...region still reeling from the loss of manufacturing jobs over the past several decades. It is fertile ground for anti-corporate sentiment, and Kryzan is tapping it to attack Lee, who is running on his business background; he worked for his family's business, an engineering and technology firm from which he made millions when it was sold to an international conglomerate in 2007. Kryzan says her work as an environmental lawyer means she's poised to help create green-collar jobs in Western New York; she has painted Lee as an irresponsible deregulator, making the tone of the race...
...derail Asia's export-driven economies. The quandary facing Asia's policymakers is that credit is tightening and stocks are plunging due to circumstances mostly beyond their control. "Central banks in Asia don't have the ability to fix the problem," said Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong...
...mainland. In what has been one of the world's prime economic engines for the past five years, growth is slowing fast. Look only at the price of steel - as useful an industrial proxy for China's economic boom as any. According to Mysteel, a Shanghai-based consulting firm, the price for products used primarily in construction have fallen to less than $590 per ton, down almost 20% in just four months, forcing some companies into the red in what had been a booming industry. Baosteel, one of China's largest steelmakers, has cut prices twice since August...