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...Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called new economy disintegrated. And Japan, the world's second largest economy, was locked in a financial crisis redolent of the 1930s. After the tech wreck, everything from state-of-the-art fiber-optic networks to computer chips were dumped on the market, as desperate investors struggled to raise cash at almost any price. The main reason that it has become so easy for the advanced economies to source back-office support in Asia is because communications costs collapsed at the very moment that...
...child on the way, dropped out of high school and then spent more than a decade battling drug abuse. He was born again six years ago, he says, patting the thick wooden cross around his neck. He has been clean since and has a high-paying job burying fiber-optic cables. But his turnaround came too late to be a model for his three older children, two of whom dropped out of school...
...longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ‘58, will chair the search committee. Houghton, the only member of the Corporation to have served on the search committee that selected Summers five years ago, is also the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic cable manufacturer Corning...
...longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, will chair the search committee. Houghton, the only member of the Corporation to have served on the search committee that selected Summers five years ago, is also the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic cable manufacturer Corning...
...longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, will chair the search committee. Houghton is also the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic cable manufacturer Corning...