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...assignment is a long project with plenty of clear milestones. According to a WorldCom study released on March 14, technology companies are almost four times as likely as other companies to have a formal policy encouraging virtual management. That may be because tech companies are generally more willing to invest in the hardware and software that are needed to make long-distance supervision work. "Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is that some people will not fork over the cash for the technology," says Mareen Duncan Fisher, a consultant based in Portland, Ore., and co-author of The Distance Manager...
...every potential winner, it seems, there's a loser. Saddled with high taxes and a decrepit transportation infrastructure, the Brazilian machinery industry would simply "collapse" if forced to compete with North American firms, a Brazilian industry official says. The country's chemical industry says it would have to invest an extra $5 billion a year to avoid a similar fate, while Gianni Coda, director of Fiat Latin America, frets that "the entire Brazilian automotive sector will lose...
...Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Blumarine and Louis Vuitton. And the boots? Try Roberto Cavalli, Celine, Chanel, Dries Van Noten, Dolce & Gabbana and, well, just about anyone. The trick to the mix is to limit yourself to no more than two of the three items. And if you want to invest in just one, the tall flat boots are the trend that will last. Wearing all at once is a look best left to the Russian army...
...careers. Stefan Baumann, a manager of the Hamburg-based Trend Bureau, says that the disappearance of "an alternative to capitalism" has made the "primacy of the economy" the governing principle of their lives. Politics and ideology consumed their parents, but Europe's young professionals are now more likely to invest their jobs with social significance...
...should be less severe in Europe than in the U.S. simply because Europeans haven't relied as much on the stock market. They haven't watched a big portion of their net worth go up in flames along with the NASDAQ, so they still have money to spend and invest. But perception is important here, too. "Equity markets are seen as the bellwether of economic vitality," says Parker of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It's just possible, he warns, that with the U.S. and Japanese economies in real doubt and the FTSE and dax falling, fear alone could trigger...