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...faculty development at HBS; and Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former dean of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.All six were mentioned by Business Week or the Financial Times.Tyson served as the national economic adviser in the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s, working alongside Summers, who was in the Treasury Department at the time. Most of those professors who discussed specific names would not elaborate on individual candidates’ chances.AN INSIDER?All eight deans in the 97-year history of HBS have either held degrees from Harvard or held professorships...
...Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta have offered would-be immigrants a one-way ticket to mainland Spain; people who got through were typically released in Spain after 40 days, since no repatriation agreements exist with their native countries. While Melilla and Ceuta have attracted African migrants since the mid-1990s, the Spanish Civil Guard estimates that 13,000 people have tried to breach the border this year in Melilla alone, spurred by famine. Last Wednesday, at least 65 men and boys out of more than 500 made it to Melilla. When others tried again in greater numbers on Thursday...
...mid-1990s, the Stockton, Calif., band Pavement earned a devoted following for its brand of fuzzy, slacker rock. Among the group's admirers are these four young jazz luminaries, who join forces to cover eight Pavement songs. It's an unlikely enterprise, and not every arrangement works--the catchy hit Cut Your Hair is reinterpreted as a schmaltzy R&B ballad--but it's hard to resist music this fun. On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static. The result...
...layup. Even before the massive capital infusion from Yahoo!, Alibaba-Taobao was making life unexpectedly difficult for Whitman & Co. Ma, 40, is an English teacher turned Internet pioneer in China, where he started a company that provided basic information about Chinese industrial companies on the Web back in the mid-1990s. In 1999, he launched Alibaba, a business-to-business site that became profitable in 2002 and last year did about $70 million in sales. In 2003, he started Taobao?"searching for treasure" in Mandarin?and he plainly reveled in playing David to Whitman's Goliath. He gleefully tells...
...food to feed more than 34,000 starving children, experts have yet to upgrade Niger's situation from a food crisis to a famine. The number of people dying there is still small compared with the tolls during the disasters in Ethiopia in 1984-85 and Sudan in the mid-1990s, which claimed some 1 million and 100,000 lives, respectively...