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...families have still been going hungry for several months a year. "When I got the results, I was shocked," says Rick Peyser, director of social advocacy for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Vermont, the Fair Trade company that commissioned the survey. "I was ready to quit." Massachusetts Fair Trade firm Equal Exchange spokesman Rodney North admits, "There is a potential disconnect between what the buyer thinks Fair Trade is accomplishing and the situation on the ground," from Latin America to Asia...
...Harvard golfers, the rainy weather actually helped to keep scores lower. The greens at The Course are traditionally firm, but the rain softened things out, making for an easier hold...
...It’s necessary to have the perception of confidence,” he says. “If you lose that, your firm fails...
Rose’s second-year elective, “Managing the Financial Firm,” debuted this semester. It introduces students to many of the new challenges affecting financial organizations in today’s economic environment, including increased regulation and public scrutiny...
Among the points he seeks to make to his students, Rose says, is that public opinion of a firm is important...