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...reigning Oxford Dictionary term of the year, but too few companies can and do size up their carbon footprints accurately. "You have CEOs making commitments on carbon, but they haven't even measured anything yet," says Mike Wallace, a vice president at Trucost, an environmental-research firm based in London. "How can you be carbon neutral without any numbers...
...Manhattan's timelessly tony 21 Club is packed with more than 60 CEOs, corporate presidents and managing partners. They represent a cross section of mostly midsize New York City-area businesses. There's a biotech exec from Manhattan, an aerospace guy from Long Island, the head of a jewelry firm in New Jersey, a manufacturer of architectural lighting--all of them members of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), an international fraternity of business leaders who have won their corner offices by age 45. This group of BlackBerry-wielding overachievers has filled every seat to hear from a man who will...
...product is--or what the market for these products might be--isn't a science. "You could make the market look as wide or as narrow as you want. The definitions are pretty loose," says Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic, a food-industry research and consulting firm. "'Healthy' is very subjective," says Michelle Barry, senior vice president for consumer trends at the Hartman Group, a health-market consulting and research firm. "Consumers talk about it differently depending on who they are and what they believe." Danone is sensitive to this. The French believe prunes help digestion, so Activia...
Last month, the firm Stonehouse Holdings took control of “Shady Hill Square,” a green surrounded by seven 2,000 sq. ft. houses near the Holden Green graduate housing complex, according to city documents...
...Launched in late 2004, the Harvard-Google Project encompasses only the books that are not under copyright protection. Over a million books are affected by the project, though that is a fraction of the University’s holdings of over 15.8 million volumes. The Internet search firm is also collaborating with other university libraries in the project, including those at Princeton and Stanford Universities...