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...frosty Massachussetts Bay, the pilgrims quickly capitalized on this turn of good luck, and in 1636 voted to “give 400 [pounds] towards a schoole or colledge.” New College located in Newtown was established in hopes of training someone to give better names. The renamed Harvard College in the renamed Cambridge went on to serve for the next 370 as a sanctuary and training ground for the preeminent minds of the world: Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and the little-known John Adams. The scholars educated themselves in the “core?...
These tough critics are the "trauma surgeons of public relations," as Dezenhall puts it--the people whom companies call in when lawsuits, recalls, boycotts, federal investigations or just plain bad luck hits. "These unwanted events are our daily challenges," he writes in Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management Is Wrong. The field traces its recent roots to 1982, when seven people died from taking cyanide-laced Tylenol pills, and the manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, quickly recalled 30 million bottles of Tylenol and introduced tamper-proof packaging. That storied recovery showed corporate America the power of getting it right...
...this book is about failure,” says Boyd. “I didn’t make records that sold millions and millions of records. A lot more people are into my music now.”Still, Boyd had a knack for forcefully marketing music, and luck wasn’t the only factor in his success. “I did always have an idea of how to do it, but it was a very sure idea that came between me and the group, not the marketing department,” says Boyd...
...lead. I’ll take a chorus part. I’ll be a tree if I need to be a tree.”LIFE AFTER HARVARDAfter graduation, many of Harvard’s theatrically inclined alumni move to the Big Apple in order to try their luck in the New York theater scene. “There are a lot of young Harvard alumni working in theater in New York. I think the thing that people maybe don’t know is that there are just so many of us working here,” Mangu...
...Moreover - really for the first time in British politics - Thatcher placed market values, not abstract ones of duty and honor, at the heart of a social definition of success. In the 1980s, if you didn't make money (loadsamoney ... ), if you didn't cash in on your talents or luck, then you were worse than an idiot - you were somehow letting the side down...