Word: hori
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...Firms are being more conservative," says Roxanne Hori, Assistant Dean and Director of the Career Management Center at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. "Nobody wants to be over head count." Hori says that higher retention of current employees - given the Wall Street climate - may mean less room for new recruits. As institutions wait out the Wall Street storm, they know many students will still be in the market for a job when spring comes around...
Northwestern's Hori says the silver lining in the current climate is that many students are stepping back to reflect on whether they really want to follow the Wall Street herd even if recruiters do eventually come knocking. At Stanford, where 37% of business school students who graduated last year took finance-related jobs, many students are looking closely at non-finance companies recruiting on campus for the first time, including Facebook, Disney, and Sony. Resnick, Hori and leaders of other schools likewise report rising student interest in alternatives to finance, particularly in areas like social enterprise, energy, and health...
Shigeyuki Hori looks like your average Japanese salaryman, but at heart he's a speed demon. Once a week the Toyota engineer heads to the company test track at the base of Mount Fuji to try out new models. There he dons a crash helmet, and in a one-on-one communion between car and creator, he barrels his work-in-progress around a track at upwards of 120 m.p.h. The 51-year-old admits he's addicted to the speed rush. "When I'm out there on the track, I'm fearless," he says. Fearlessness has been a useful...
...vast, utilitarian office where Hori and his team of engineers are forging the next-generation eco-car, there's little in the way of glamour. Here, innovation comes through team effort, and individual stars are hard to pinpoint. But Hori is no mere taskmaster. "He gives us the freedom to pursue our own ideas," says assistant manager Yohichi Sugiura, an engine expert...
Right now, Hori and his team are focused on the future. "The original Prius proved that hybrid cars were technically feasible. The new model has shown that it can be attractive to consumers. The third generation has to be even more powerful and more fuel efficient," says Hori. His vision for Toyota's eco-friendly autos goes beyond the Prius line. "The next step is to apply hybrid technology to other models and to reduce its price," he says. After that, he has his sights on dispensing with CO2-belching gasoline engines entirely: "Ultimately, the future is in electric power...