Word: koo
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Chung Mong Koo, chairman of South Korea's Hyundai Motor, carefully scrutinizes a newly designed gearshift lever for the automaker's Sonata sedan while his entire senior management team hovers around, anxiously awaiting his approval. The execs are justifiably edgy. Engineers added a plastic plate beneath the shifter to prevent spilled coffee and other flotsam from falling into the mechanism and gumming it up. It's a minor change, but no one is treating it that way, least of all Chung, a hard-nosed, detail-oriented boss with a penchant for micromanagement. ("He still makes the decision...
...sure not to miss the only concert of Ghanian highlife music to hit Harvard this year. Blodgett Distinguished artist Daniel Amponsah, who goes by the title Koo Noo is scheduled to perform this highly anticipated concert. Free. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...first rubber stamp we could find,” explained Kevin Koo ’07, a board member of the Race, Culture, and Diversity Initiative, the group that organized the event...
...received the envelopes were “student leaders, activists, people involved in the community,” said Koo, glancing anxiously at the door of Ticknor Lounge. He was supposed to be asking attendees to write their anonymous comments on final clubs on 3 by 5 index cards...
...over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "twin towers." He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main appliance...