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...aroma" in all of its car seats for years. Branding experts know that, to be effective, olfactory and acoustic assaults must be subtle. "If you make these things feel like advertising, that you're doing this to affect behavior, you've failed," says Peter Dixon of brand consultancy Lippincott Mercer, which is working with Samsung and Hyatt Place. In other words, exercising restraint just makes sense...
...large companies reimburse employees for education, according to a national survey by Hewitt Associates. ? Government employers offer the highest overall level of benefits, a Mercer HR Consulting study found, retailers and wholesalers offer the lowest. ? General Mills employees can buy gas and get auto servicing at company headquarters in Golden Valley, Minn...
...navigating through Hollywood's stereotypes about rappers. One measure of his success arrives this Friday. In Four Brothers, a revenge movie about a family of gun-toting, black and white, adopted brothers (based loosely on the 1965 John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder), Benjamin plays Jeremiah Mercer, the least trigger-happy character. The movie was directed by Singleton. "Dre came out here, worked hard and ate the whole humble pie," says Singleton. "Now things are heating up for him. I'm lucky to have him in this movie...
...Harlem's Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World on a String and III Wind. A retiring man who liked to jot down musical ideas while walking the dog or riding in a car, he worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable Broadway and Hollywood musicals to become repertoire standards for gifted interpreters like Frank...
Next year, Mr. Murray will be working for Mercer Management Consulting Group in Boston, and Ms. Music will begin classes at Harvard Business School alongside another Murray: Ethan’s 24-year-old brother, Abraham...