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...fans too. “She stood out as a remarkable student,” said Bill Mendelsohn, an English teacher at Bergen. According to Mendelsohn, Viswanathan was the editor-in-chief of the school’s online magazine, as well as an active member of the Model UN team and the debate team...
...flexibility of such clusters is sometimes held up as a model by experts on economic development such as Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. But the system has proved vulnerable to an onslaught of international competition. About 90% of the firms in the district have fewer than 20 employees, while just a dozen have more than 50, according to a study by Professor Roberto Grandinetti of the University of Padua. Local bankers say all but a few are sorely undercapitalized and lack the resources to build their business to a global scale. And virtually no one has much experience...
...Everybody thought Calligaris was mad when he started, but now he is a model for all of us," says Gino Piani, who runs a company called Forsedia, with 50 employees, three lines of furniture and slumping sales. Piani's answer is Calligaris-inspired: he is trying to create his own brand and a sales network with fellow entrepreneurs. Two of the four firms he hoped to team with have since dropped out, but Piani doesn't need to look very far to see that he needs to do something. The Manzano district as a whole is working on a strategy...
...make that information and knowledge easily accessible to the greatest number of individuals and enterprises,” the report states. The report calls for countries to either follow Finland’s example of raising public funding to meet increased educational demand, or copy the U.S. model where universities rely heavily on private tuition. “The [European Union] universities are in crisis,” said Krupp Foundation professor of European studies, Peter A. Hall. He said that while enrollment has risen in many European universities, the increase in the student body has not been matched with...
...Iran Freedom Concert at Harvard will be repeated in coming months at other progressive colleges—Duke, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford. The events are a great sign of increasing student activism and student commitment to open forum. The mantra of the concerts should be a model for students, politicians, and citizens everywhere...