Word: laidlaw
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...folks at McGraw-Hill, who keep the averages, are a secretive bunch. They didn't explain why Laidlaw, an obscure Canadian company, got the ax and Yahoo got in. But one thing is certain. If this index is going to maintain its integrity as a diversified assemblage of our industrial might, there are more Yahoos ahead. They might not all have the same pop as Yahoo, in part because much of Yahoo is closely held. But because of the newness of some of the candidates and how much is owned--and not traded--by venture capitalists, the pickings here could...
...style in four years, and now operates 1,760 ambulances in 28 states. MedTrans, which last year swallowed another giant, CareLine Inc., is just as large and has grown tenfold, into a $500 million operation with 12,000 employees. In fiscal 1995-96, MedTrans, a division of Canada's Laidlaw Inc., an environmental and transportation company, posted a 180% jump in profits, to $55 million. Not far behind the two is Arizona's Rural/Metro Corp., which increased revenues 46% to $250 million in fiscal 1996 over 1995; net income rose 66%, from $6.9 million to $11.5 million...
Nationally, diversity is definitely the justification for such new MBA plans, according to Bill K. Laidlaw, executive vice president of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business...
...candidates tend to bring similar professional backgrounds with them to business school, Laidlaw says...
...only the entrenched hiring traditions of financial firms and the students who will work for them defy Harvard's possible initiative. Although Laidlaw says he predicts a trend toward more diverse business school classrooms, tha trend has apparently not yet arrived...