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...Penney gone trendy? New CEO Myron (Mike) Ullman wants you to think so. He has introduced new lines from Nicole Miller and Chris Madden to the mid-tier department-store, Internet and mail-order business while streamlining sales and launching a new "emotive advertising" campaign. "Mike's a marketing wizard," says analyst Bob Buchanan of A.G. Edwards & Sons. "He tells the customer that just because she doesn't make 100 grand a year doesn't mean she can't look good." Penney's earnings quadrupled in the first quarter over last year, to $172 million. Ullman's clearly doing something...
Bond was also charged with expanding the Harvard Club of New York just two years ago. The project generated controversy, as some club members said that the design was inconsistent with the feel of the older portion of the club, built in the mid-to-late 1890s...
Since the mid-1960s, Halberstam has penned 19 books. In addition to his reporting abroad, he covered the civil rights movement in the Deep South in the mid-1960s, and has written on American sports history, the trajectory of Robert F. Kennedy’s career, and the culture of the 1950s, among other topics...
...mid-1970s, during what Limpert calls “the golden era” of corporate involvement in the arts, he began to develop strong relationships between New York’s cultural and commercial sectors. Limpert says that he pulled together a group of charity-minded Fortune 500 CEOs to promote corporate investment in the MoMA. The committee generated over $3 million in gifts...
...same approach led to continued success after Limpert left the MoMA in the mid-1980s. As vice president for development at Lincoln Center, he helped to generate a major sponsorship deal with General Motors, and his work at the New York Botanical Garden resulted in the first substantial gift dedicated to renovation and expansion of the garden’s buildings...