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...From the outset, Baker took bold steps to show the fashion community that he was serious about turning around the brand. He met with vendors, publications and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) asking for advice and partnerships. He recently started a new company called Creative Design Studios that will own all of Lord & Taylor's proprietary brands and invest heavily in up-and-coming American designers, like Cynthia Steffe, regardless of whether they sell to his store. He has become a major underwriter of the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, which mentors and financially assists young talent. Seventy...
...From the outset, the program in Gaza, begun in 2006, was the most ambitious--and the one with the most potential for impact. The unemployed in that war-battered wedge of Palestine is by some counts 70% of the adult population. Mohammad Naja, a management consultant who runs the foundation's program there, says university students "learn theory, not practical application." To address this gap, foundation students undergo a crash course in business English, then a mini-M.B.A. boot camp devised by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business that places them in real-life...
...dinky car," says Ravi Kant, managing director of Tata Motors. "It's a regular, wholesome car that will be a joy to drive and of course it will have very good fuel efficiency." Will that be enough to convince India's aspiring classes? Tata at the outset expects to sell 20,000 of its cheap cars a month in India, partly because consumers will see them as safer than motorbikes on India's chaotic roads. Ved Pal, 38, who works at a New Delhi finance company and who currently rides a bike, says he is tempted. "I have five people...
...each, do not have the public support that Pou and the nurses did. But the earlier case has added one more curious angle to the trial, which defense lawyers will clearly try to capitalize on in their arguments that this is an unreasonable prosecution. "It's unusual from the outset, because most cases of negligent homicide aren't prosecuted criminally, they're dealt with in the civil courts," says Dane Ciolino, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. "Another unusual aspect is the whole backdrop of the attorney general's office vigorously prosecuting the case on the heels...
...During his time in office, Bok did little to add to the University’s coffers. From the outset, the Corporation “made it clear that they didn’t expect me to engage in major fundraising,” Bok said...