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...swagger. Once asked how it felt to drop a bomb on people, he replied, "I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel." Such myopia may have worked for him in the cockpit, but may be a liability in politics...
...DIED. Theodore Levitt, 81, legendary Harvard Business School professor who was credited with coining the term globalization in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article; in Belmont, Massachusetts. A provocative teacher and scholar, Levitt wrote eight books on marketing. He contributed 25 articles to the Review, including the influential "Marketing Myopia" in 1960, which argued that companies suffer because executives defined their businesses too narrowly and has sold 850,000 reprints...
DIED. Theodore Levitt, 81, legendary Harvard Business School professor who was credited with coining the term globalization in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article; in Belmont, Mass. A provocative teacher and scholar, Levitt wrote eight books on marketing. He contributed 25 articles to the Review, including the influential "Marketing Myopia" in 1960, which argued that companies suffer because executives define their businesses too narrowly, and has sold 850,000 reprints...
Levitt called upon companies to expand their marketing conceptions in his 1960 Harvard Business Review article “Marketing Myopia,” which eventually became one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time...
...what else, mathematics - had submitted a simpler version to the Times for election Day 1980, with CARTER and REAGAN as the interchangeable words. Maleska turned it down, supposedly asking, "What if John Anderson wins?" (I still shake my head in wonder at Farrell's brilliance, and Maleska's myopia.) Sixteen years later, Farrell revived and revised the idea. Though Shortz typically revises about half of the clues in an average puzzle, and did tweak the surrounding clues, he left the central section gloriously intact...