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...containing wads of U.S. $100 bills in packs of $10,000. It's meant as a joke, poking fun at perceptions of Russian businessmen as big-spending bandits. After the 1998 crisis, Chichvarkin says Euroset's focus was on low prices. But now that Russians have more money, the firm is focusing on branding and store location. Most employees work entirely on a commission basis. One of the biggest challenges for the company, says co-founder Timur Artemiev, is finding enough good managers. Among the criteria: "They mustn't be lazy or steal." Emerging consumer credit is helping to fuel...
...refurbishing and reselling firm, jumped into the recycling business in 2005 to end those practices. "We used to work with companies that claimed that all materials were properly recycled in the U.S. But on at least three occasions, I watched them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...
...years, Gass got the same response from every other major power-tool company. He was stunned. "Everybody in woodworking knows someone who's lost a finger or had an accident," says Gass. "I felt this technology should really be out there." He and two other lawyers from his firm launched SawStop in 2001, setting up shop in his barn and contracting with a manufacturer in Taiwan to build the devices. With about $5 million in sales, 16 employees and nearly 50 reports from customers of undetached digits, SawStop is thriving...
...drug company, however, argued that the patent is invalid because it covers a naturally-occurring biological process. Spokesman Joe Wrinn wrote in an e-mail yesterday that the University is pleased with the jury’s findings. But the biggest winner yesterday was Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a small firm that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the other plaintiffs in the case. In the 1980s, scientists from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved...
...pieces that we’re going to play are really representative of the modern New York scene,” says Noah L. Nathan ’09, one of the six founding members of the fledgling group. Nathan describes the sound as having “very firm jazz roots, but also a funkiness to it.” Nathan and four of his bandmates met through the Harvard Monday Jazz Band, a group that Nathan calls “the main jazz band on campus.” “There aren’t that...