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QUESTION 5: Before hitting the big time, your company must first overcome what obstacle to growth of epic proportions? A) The Sherman Anti-Trust Act; B) Barriers to entry set up by your roommate's competing firm; C) The Ad Board; D) All of the above...
QUESTION 7: You are at a dinner meeting with some interested investors. As the meeting wraps up, you are asked exactly when you expect your firm to begin earning a profit. You respond by: A) Providing a concise cost-revenue analysis that avoids giving a specific answer; B) Pretending to choke on a piece of chicken bone; C) Pointing out that the profit motive is an ephemeral capitalist notion that will eventually give way to the triumph of modern socialism; D) Changing the subject to the number of clients that will be redirected to your Web page from porn sites...
Saddam's other "enemy" lives 2,000 miles away in an 18th century town house on London's fashionable Cavendish Square. It looks more like the corporate digs of a leveraged-buyout firm than the headquarters of a guerrilla movement. Instead of AK-47s and Molotov cocktails, No. 17 Cavendish Square boasts fully equipped offices with ergonomic furniture, fresh-cut flowers and expensive prints hanging on the walls. For a suite on its second floor, the U.S. State Department pays more than $200 a sq. ft. annually, according to documents obtained by TIME--double what most empty modern office space...
...Union Side The AFL-CIO, anti-sweatshop groups and at least one U.S. textile firm...
...glimpse of a less profligate future in Kalundborg, Denmark. There, an unusual place called an "eco-industrial park" shows how much can be gained by recycling and resource sharing. Within the park, a power company, a pharmaceuticals firm, a wallboard producer and an oil refinery share in the production and use of steam, gas and cooling water. Excess heat warms nearby homes and agricultural greenhouses. One company's waste becomes another's resource. The power plant, for example, sells the sulfur dioxide it scrubs from its smokestacks to the wallboard company, which uses the compound as a raw material. Dozens...