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SHOULDERS OF A GIANT...
Last fall, community-service giant Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) suffered what it called its most severe shortage of volunteers in recent memory. By September 2002, PBHA was 250 members short of its usual size and worrying it might have to downsize. Today, PBHA President Kristin M. Garcia ’05 says the group has remedied the shortage. “But,” she adds, “we’re always looking for more volunteers...
...indication that he is contemplating retirement, Asia's richest man (estimated net worth: $12.4 billion) is 75 years old. Which of his two sons--quiet, nose-to-the-grindstone Victor or sociable, creative Richard--will take over the family businesses? The Li holdings are massive and include property giant Cheung Kong Holdings, one of Hong Kong's biggest property developers, and the ports, retailing and telecom conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa. It's a question that Li, as well as investors in his publicly traded companies, which have a combined market value of $74 billion, must inevitably confront in the coming years...
...contributed to the disease's spread in Thailand by trying to hide the outbreak. CP's participation in any cover-up "is just not true,'' says Dhanin. The company's chicken farms are a bulwark against the spread of diseases, he contends, because its birds are kept in giant warehouses, sequestered from birds believed to be carriers of the virus. His views are supported by a Bangkok-based senior officer of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, who says enclosed factory farms like CP's are the safest...
...communal approach has helped him build the Philippines' equivalent of Wal-Mart Stores. SM Group is a retail giant, with 38,600 employees and annual revenues of $1.7 billion. Despite that success, Sy's children realize that the all-in-the-family management style is becoming outdated. Like so many of Asia's big business clans, a generational shift and the stresses of running an increasingly complex company are forcing the insular Sys to open up more to outsiders. "For my father, the organization is the family," says Sy's eldest daughter Teresita Sy-Coson, known as Tessie...