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...Case in point: Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's largest online game provider. Huang's fund injected $40 million into the business and helped its young, Chinese-educated chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Case in point: Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's largest online game provider. Huang's fund injected $40 million into the business and helped its young, Chinese-educated chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

Ruggiero will further hone her skills by practicing and playing up north until August, the start of the U.S. Olympic training that will then become her main focus...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixing It Up, Making History with the Big Boys | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

Murphy, who has been forced to hone his recruiting skills as a result of the Ivy League’s high admissions standards and ban on athletic scholarships, has a history of resuscitating lackluster programs. Prior to overseeing the Crimson’s late-’90s resurgence, he transformed Cincinnati from a 1-9-1 laughingstock into an 8-3 bowl contender four years later...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly and Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Indiana Courts Football Coach | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

...Hone your sense of style, see the inside of the Faculty Club, and help out a worthy cause while you’re at it. Women IN Color presents a fashion show highlighting Harvard styles. All proceeds go straight to the non-profit Dress for Success, which helps underprivileged women aquire job interviewing skills. General admission tickets $10 at the Harvard Box Office. 7 p.m. at the Faculty Club. (ECMV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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