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Rauner is managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey and Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a firm specializing in acquiring and consolidating service businesses such as those that deal in laundry equipment, propane distribution and funeral homes, according to information obtained from...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: HBS Graduate Establishes New Professorship | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...Leary and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, among others, for the first commercial burial in space. The containers will orbit the earth for up to10 years before reentering the atmosphere with a fiery explosion ? "blazing like a shooting star in final tribute," according to the Web site for Celestis Inc., the Houston-based company that organized the world's first space funeral. At $4800 per vial, the space shot costs about $1000 more than conventional services, and company President Chan Tysor says demand is booming. A second space funeral, this time carrying 150 vials, is planned for late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Space | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

Technology stocks like Macromedia Inc., Quarterdeck Corp. and Verity Inc. have been pounded down 75%. Tempting. But tech stocks are highly volatile, no place to hide if you've got the jitters. Some overseas markets, including Japan, Thailand, France, Korea and India, offer values. But the soaring dollar means U.S. investors can lose more on the unavoidable currency exchange than they make in those markets. What to do if you want to sleep at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO BUY A SKYSCRAPER | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...Happy Meal, and you'll get either Patti the Platypus or Pinky the Flamingo, the first two of a series of miniature Beanie Babies McD's is giving away. Get there soon. The cuddly Beanie Babies have been wildly popular since they were introduced in 1994 by Ty Inc., a toymaker based in Oak Brook, Illinois, also home to McDonald's. The privately held Ty has been so inundated by frantic parents looking for Beanies that earlier this year it decided to unlist its local number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Human-rights activists, environmentalists and corporate watch-dogs have taken aim at one of the companies in which Harvard invests part of its $9 billion endowment, Freeport-McMoRan Inc., which has been accused of massive pollution and human-rights violations...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Harvard Investment in Mining Firm Criticized | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

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