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While one—University President Lawrence H. Summers—regularly stands in the spotlight as the chief decision maker at Harvard, the other members of the University’s highest governing board rarely share the stage...
After leaving Harvard, Ballmer was accepted to Stanford Business School (SBS) but deferred for a year to work at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager, marketing such products as Coldsnap Freezer Dessert Maker and Moist ‘n’ Easy Snack Cake...
...virtually powerless to influence the domestic issues on which he campaigned: security, sweeping tax reductions and business-friendly economic reform. To prevent that, Chirac's allies may be tempted to think the unthinkable: cut a deal with the far right. The National Front's potential of playing king-maker has come about due to the appeal of its anti-immigrant, fear-mongering messages in places like the Gard. Last month, as law and order obsessions turned the presidential race into a single-issue campaign, a stunning 36.1% of Beaucaire's voters opted for Le Pen's neo-fascist message during...
Wall street blessed the marriage of tools and turtlenecks last week when Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced it will buy preppie-apparel maker Lands' End for $1.9 billion in cash. Both stocks moved up on the news--a rarity at a time when investors are justifiably wary of big mergers. Executives of the two companies emphasized that Sears, now strongest in products like auto batteries and wrench sets, will get a chance to revive its tired apparel department while Lands' End, which has thrived as a catalog and online merchant, will get to hang its wares in 870 Sears stores across...
...Looks like more turbulence ahead. T H E B O U R S E The Samsung Swing H Compared to last year, global mobile-phone sales fell 3.8% in the first quarter, but don't tell Samsung. Its sales jumped 49%, making it the world's third-largest phone maker. Taming The Bucking Bull H Merrill Lynch will pay a $100 million penalty and make its analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave...