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Many Harvard students come here planning to try a host of extracurriculars and maintain a grade point average that will win them spots in Harvard Med or jobs with Morgan Stanley in four years. Many Harvard students change those plans...
Many Harvard students come here planning to try a host of extracurriculars and maintain a grade point average that will win them spots in Harvard Med or jobs with Morgan Stanley in four years. Many Harvard students change those plans...
Elbaum, who until recently was a pre-med, challenges the stereotype. "I haven't seen all the stereotypical people, very few stab-you-in-the-back pre-meds," he says. "There are pre-meds probably involved in every sport. I don't think anyone is a total geek...
Like Club Med's individual customers, corporations are drawn by the promise of a relatively inexpensive package deal. It typically includes airfare, accommodations, three buffet-style meals a day, theme parties and nightly entertainment, all for an average per-person price of $1,100 a week. More than 20 villages, from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Phuket in Thailand, have installed personal computers for executives to toy with when far away from the office. The new appeal to companies helped increase Club Med's revenues by 17% last year, to $843 million, and profits...
Trigano thinks Club Med would be luring more corporate clients were it not for its original racy reputation as a place for swinging singles. Says he: "There is an extraordinary difference between the image people have of a Club Med village and what it actually is. Paradoxically, we are almost trapped, caught between our image and the reality." But with all those computers and golf courses, corporate types are beginning to feel right at home...