Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Increasing Harvard's international presence has long been a priority of President Neil L. Rudenstine, and this new outpost is touted as a way to put down permanent roots in a growing economic market...
...Harvard was prevented from taking the bull market by its horns. It had planned to put 15 percent of its investments in venture capital, but ended up on investing ten percent, according to Harvard Management Company President Jack R. Meyer...
Such protestations of fairness were not uncommon in the turn of the century press, but Adolph Ochs actually believed what he wrote. Within 25 years, his paper dominated the New York City market and grossed more than $100 million. Now, as another century turns, the Times is the best newspaper in the world, with annual corporate revenues of $2.9 billion. The descendants of Ochs still control the company, and they are no longer worried about financial failure...
Tour operators know a good market when they see one. And grandparents, at more than 60 million strong today and expected to increase to as many as 100 million by 2010, are clearly a cash reserve waiting to be tapped. So, many travel agents now offer intergenerational packages. Helena Koenig's Grandtravel is, well, the grandmother of them all. Long ago, when Koenig was just a parent, she noticed that the most successful outings she had with her kids were the ones in which she allowed each child to invite a friend. Fourteen years ago, after launching a successful travel...
ONLINE OVERKILL Researchers at UC-Davis, using six years' worth of data, studied the behavior of some 1,600 investors who switched from phone-based to online trading. Prior to the switch, these investors had beaten the market by more than 2%. Overconfidence may explain why they traded more aggressively online and wound up trailing the market by more than...