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...board of any company whose product or service they don't understand. Kilberg says she recently agreed to join a local bank's board but turned down a small software firm. "It just wasn't worth it," she says. Robert Edwards, CFO of Imation, a maker of magnetic and optical data-storage discs based in Oakdale, Minn., joined the board of glass manufacturer Apogee Enterprises in October. It is his first stint on the board of a company other than his own, and he says, "One of the key requirements for me was, Do I understand the business that they...
...about half of the action figures are based on real soldiers. They wear the same fatigues, they carry the same weapons and even have the same dog tags as real troops. In fact, Hasbro, the maker of G.I. Joe, goes through no small effort to recreate the detail of historic soldiers in its Luftwaffe, NVA, and Soviet Union soldiers. It also includes more recent soldiers, such as those who participated in the first Persian Gulf...
After 20 days of exams and papers, Harvard was thrown into the heart of its road schedule immediately, and at times the rust showed. The schedule maker, as Don Cheadle might say, turned cruelty into cruelty. Even the order of the games was a killer—Harvard didn’t play Penn until Saturday, thus missing the game Andrew Toole sat out due to an ankle injury. This, of course, gave Toole the necessary 24 hours any player who hasn’t practiced for a week needs to miraculously heal and drop 21, six and five...
...holdover from that game in 1999 could be the difference-maker tonight. Harvey was a freshman reserve on the 1998-99 team, deploying his trademark running floater during a first-half Harvard spurt that helped lift the Crimson to victory. After taking a year off before his sophomore campaign, he’s been one of the league’s most prolific scorers. Despite being slowed by a foot injury and the massive attention paid to him by most opposing defenses, he’s looked more like his First Team All-Ivy self in recent games. He?...
...economic growth." But even Agnelli's flash could not sustain a company that has been long on passion and short on the nuts-and-bolts fundamentals that determine success in today's highly competitive global car market. Although Agnelli, known to friends as "Gianni," was once the ultimate decision maker at the Turin conglomerate, his power, like his health, had waned as Fiat was battered by crises in the boardroom and in the market. In fact, control of Fiat had already shifted to his younger brother Umberto, a handover that was scheduled to be formalized the morning of Gianni...