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...Even by China's skewed standards, the surge of foreign interest in launching and managing new mainland hotels is astounding. "It's stratospheric," says Patrick Ford, president of Lodging Econometrics, a U.S.-based industry-research group. "China is the most attractive place in the world right now for hotels. That's why investment capital is racing there and why the major international brands are racing there too." Indeed, 188 new hotels are under construction in China, says Ford, and 145 of them are four- or five-star offerings with more than 200 rooms. Even if some of these projects aren...
...work. He believed you should do what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities they're most suited for." In the Agnelli bloodline, that often means entrepreneurialism. Fiat was founded in 1899 by Giovanni Agnelli, a wealthy Turinese landowner, who imported Henry Ford's assembly line. He chose Gianni, his grandson, as his business heir after Gianni's father was killed in a 1935 plane accident, just as Gianni would later anoint Elkann. With his aquiline features and elegant but easygoing manner, Elkann certainly evokes his grandpa, among the 20th century's most admired business...
...sounds. Gone are the days when nationalism and protectionism meant that as many of 85% of cars sold in Italy were Fiats. Now the company needs a genuinely global approach, which probably includes pursuing one-off, local alliances to build specific products, much like a November deal inked with Ford to jointly turn out new compact cars in Poland. The company, which is particularly strong in Brazil, has been looking for expansion possibilities in India and China. Elkann may be especially suited for these global challenges, having lived all around the world as a youth. "Moving around, you adapt quickly...
...watch the spring birds migrating. He identified the blackpoll warblers perched in the elms outside the Oval Office. And he kept a list of his sightings. Anytime he yearned for the strenuous life outside the White House, Roosevelt cheerfully dragged ambassadors and small boys to climb rock faces and ford streams in Rock Creek Park. Few could keep up with...
...representing each of the three proposed areas. The two humanities professors on this summer's committee, Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, were both members of the Gang of Five. The two science professors on the committee, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu '94 and Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam, and the two social science professors on the committee, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters, are new to general education committees...