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...turned out the old world wasn't ready for Nonaka's vision. Sanyo's losses continued to mount. Nonaka lost the CEO title last year, and she resigned as chairwoman in March. Her radical program, dubbed Think Gaia, "was a very good strategy," says Yasuyuki Onishi, a Tokyo-based financial journalist who wrote a recent book on Sanyo's woes. "But it wasn't the right time to think Gaia. Sanyo had to think for itself...
...Both the Mahdi Army and the Sunni insurgents are working from the classic guerrilla warfare playbook: avoid confrontations with concentrations of better-armed enemy forces; lie low or mount attacks elsewhere to stretch his forces. It's been this way, in one form or another, since the insurgency began in the summer of 2003. And it's a reminder that no matter how thoughtful and well-executed the military strategy is, its effectiveness will be determined by the political reality...
...February 29, 2000: Mount Morris Township, Michigan A 6 year-old boy brings a .32 semi-automatic handgun to school and kills a first grader...
...turned out the old world wasn't ready for Nonaka's vision. Sanyo's losses continued to mount. Nonaka lost the CEO title last year when the position was eliminated; on March 19, she resigned as chairwoman shortly after the company reported it might have to restate earnings for the four years through March 2004 amid a government investigation of possible accounting irregularities. While Sanyo was beset by problems before Nonaka arrived, including cutthroat price competition from South Korea and China, her attempt to radically change the corporate mind-set had become a distraction from urgent problems, analysts said...
...best solution to the Fine Arts Library’s relocation. The gulf between decision-makers and those affected is reminiscent of the University’s oft-maligned decision to place a library administration building and a center for archival preservation on the prime real estate of 90 Mount Auburn Street instead of putting the space to better use. Economics is the College’s largest department, and has one of its highest student-teacher ratios. The planned Littauer renovations could have invigorated pedagogy, providing new spaces for actual contact between students and professors in a department that...