Word: founder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tseng will be repeated over and over again if Harvard doesn't take steps to more stringently monitor its faculty's outside affairs," says Robert Weissman '89-'90, co-founder of the group Harvard Watch, which evaluates administration policies. "It's almost inevitable...
...blues foundation, overlays it with some up-to-the-second dance sounds and ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...
...House of Love, hit the No. 1 position on the dance chart. The band has been a smash in Europe, but until the release of What Up, Dog?, America seemed to resist its charms. "We had a hip cachet in Europe," says David, the band's co- founder and lyrics writer. "In America we were has-beens." David puts the band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons, "If we have a hit album this time, it will work out to a minimum wage over the last eight years." Adds Don: "We had to go outside...
...company once called Hitsville, U.S.A., which produced a generation of singing superstars from Stevie Wonder to the Supremes, hit it big in pictures? That question is producing a heart-thumping atmosphere at Motown Productions these days. Founder and Chairman Berry Gordy, who sold his legendary record label to MCA last June for $61 million, is now plunging his company into the equally high-risk field of movies and television. In doing so, Gordy, 59, is banking on the talents of his ace protege, Suzanne de Passe, 42, the president of Motown Productions and one of the most promising new mini...
...exams and handwriting tests have a wide margin for error, which means that some people are inaccurately labeled as dishonest. James Walls, co- founder and executive vice president of Stanton Corp. in Charlotte, N.C., which sells 1 million written honesty tests a year, admits that his questionnaires are only 88% reliable. Employers should use a written test only to supplement interviews and background checks, Walls points out. Critics of the tests contend that many managers are lazy when it comes to hiring. "They want quick answers to the question 'Will a person be honest?' " explains Jon Bauer, a law professor...