Word: harper
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Even so, ConAgra doesn't like to take its rise to prominence too seriously. Known for cultivating a kind of down-home whimsy about itself, the company deflatingly titled its corporate history ConAgra Who? Chairman Charles ("Mike") Harper, 62, intends to keep things that way. "We are so simple, we're dull," he contends. Such modesty can be misleading. When Harper arrived in 1974, ConAgra was a nearly bankrupt company involved mainly in grain milling and commodities trading. He embarked on an expansion plan to place ConAgra at every step along "the food chain," as Harper likes to call...
...Harper proved to be a smart shopper. After buying Banquet Foods for the bargain price of $50 million in 1980, Harper revived the frozen-dinner company by adding 90 new selections. In the Beatrice deal, Harper reportedly picked up the company for less than half the price initially sought by financiers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Harper's management philosophy is to allow each ConAgra unit a high degree of autonomy. "We have more presidents than banks have vice presidents," he says. ConAgra's low-key style has paid off handsomely for shareholders. After ten years of record earnings, ConAgra stock that...
...hanger finale last week. In the hardscrabble Atlantic province of Newfoundland, 52 provincial legislators hurriedly canvassed their constituents on whether to accept a constitutional agreement hashed out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's ten provincial premiers a week earlier. In the prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place in Canada could shatter, leading, in the direst of scenarios...
...Harper & Row; 389 pages...
...Kennedy School has a mandate "to prepare students to be effective public policymakers in multi-cultural, multi-racial societies," protest organizers Cevette Harper and Fernando Tovar said in a statement released yesterday...