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...example, "a large company's profit trails off and wants to grow," says Brian J. Hirschfeld '93, also of CDI. "We have to understand the business, look at value migration, understand what the customer is demanding and which customers are most profitable...
...There is not a specific trade school that makes someone successful. We're interested in analytic skills which can be defined by any major," Hirschfeld says. "If you've never seen a balance sheet before, that shouldn't stop...
Nearly two years after the start of official peace talks, first in Madrid and later in Washington, deadlocked negotiations lent special urgency to the back-channel talks. Immediately after meeting Kriah, Hirschfeld called a high- ranking friend, Yossi Beilin, Deputy Foreign Minister and an aggressive dove. Beilin was interested but noncommittal. Nevertheless, he extended what Pundak describes as a "very long leash" -- in effect, carte blanche to explore all possibilities and report back at every stage of the contacts. Ever since the Labor Party regained power last year, Israel had begun opening the process. In fact, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...
...turns out, Kriah, Hirschfeld and Pundak were acquainted with members of the Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science, which had sociologists and scientists studying living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hirschfeld contacted Terje Roed Larsen, head of the institute, who pressed his government contacts at home and came back with encouraging news. "If you need our support," Larsen told Hirschfeld, "we'll get the Norwegian government to give you all the facilities you need...
...negotiators jumped at the chance. Hirschfeld and Pundak, together with the Palestinians led by Kriah, headed for Oslo in January. During the next eight months, they met 14 times in sessions lasting two to three days. Ushered through on separate flights so they would not be recognized, the delegates were escorted at high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan...