Word: hp
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...Since I was 11 when I first started reading HP, I feel like I grew up with Harry,” Duncan wrote. When he was young, so was I, and I wasn’t necessarily ready for the darker themes that show up in the later books. Now that I’m older, I can appreciate that Harry’s world is becoming steadily more complicated, because I, too, have had to learn that the world is not always as simple as it seemed when I was 11 years...
...right, who would be the first-ever non-U.S. bank chief; Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer (a U.S. citizen), middle; and former U.S. Trade Rep Robert Zoellick. One candidate from 2005, when Wolfowitz got the job, who hasn't gotten much traction this go-round: ex--HP CEO Carly Fiorina...
...said he needed to "get more done more efficiently and faster, always faster." He was one of 12 men and four women, mostly in their 30s and 40s, who came from such companies as Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix. Someone else wanted to standardize a process at HP, a job he described as "impossible." A brilliant young entrepreneur from Massachusetts said he wanted to become a "better leader and communicator...
Difficult to accomplish? Not really, says Roger Bhalla, the director of HP's Worldwide Notebook Supply Chain Strategy and a Conversant graduate. A 40-person project to overhaul factories in six countries generated a 100-fold return on investment, he reports. Before he attended the horse program, though, "it was highly probable that the project would have stalled, based on disagreements in the team," he recalls...
...This year states have passed laws of varying strength banning the practice - California recently became the 15th one, although the bill won't take effect until January - but the feds have been slow to follow suit. In the absence of a national law, the five people connected to the HP case were indicted under California state fraud statutes, but their lawyers are expected to challenge whether these even cover pretexting; the statutes would have to be interpreted expansively to do so, and one attorney is looking at whether California even has jurisdiction over his client. To avoid such loopholes...