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In the decade that opens next month, thoughtful business leaders realize they face responsibilities that go beyond the traditional definition of business, and they seem ready to do more than merely pay lip service to them. Next to inflation, recession and the need to end the Viet Nam War, the...
Died. Harry Scherman, 82, a founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, whose skillful use of advertising and the U.S. mails revolutionized book distribution; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that the growing demand for books could best be met through mail-order sales (few people were near...
Before World War II, Levi Strauss was a $10 million-a-year firm with operations largely west of the Mississippi. After the war, it moved eastward. Then, recalls Walter Haas Jr., 53, a great-grand-nephew of the founder and the firm's president since 1958, "we did something...
Levi Strauss owes part of its growth to a willingness to gamble that Haas insists has been possible only because the company is privately held. Possibly the boldest move occurred in 1964, when the company became one of the first to manufacture permanent-press clothes, which it now sells in...
There is a crisis in urban education," said Alan H. Haas, Ed. M. candidate, who introduced the task force idea at the meeting. "The Ed School must shift its emphasis from the suburban schools and face this crisis," Haas said.