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...once again, but acknowledged that the company's problems are far greater than mere technical snafus. The two-year delay to the A380 will reduce profits by an estimated €4.8 billion over the next three years and cut free cash flow by €6.3 billion. Airbus and its parent company, EADS, do indeed have a wiring problem - but it's one that has afflicted the companies' management structure as much as the guts of the planes themselves. Airbus, a four-nation consortium backed by millions of euros of taxpayers' money, was once hailed as a model of European industrial...
...vice-president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum who has explored the Disorientation Guide’s website, said that he is frustrated because it “claims to speak for me and my economic class.” “I come from a single–parent family, my family has lived at or below the poverty line, and I’m here on Harvard Financial Aid. So from the beginning I take issue with something that says Harvard isn’t doing enough,” Sheffield said. “I have...
...fact, this is the lesson of a conference held every August for parents of murdered children. This year it was held in Phoenix. The parents are divided 50-50 between those who want vengeance and those who have offered mercy. So they wander between seminars, and for every parent seeking legal help to ensure their child?s murderer gets the maximum sentence, there was another parent who had forgiven the murderer, in person, and even embraced him. A main reason this conference has lasted for 28 years is because both kinds of parents are welcome...
...survey intended to address the causes of declining enrollment across the school system. The survey, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp., a market research firm based in Cambridge, will be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the research firm will form 10 focus groups, consisting of teachers, parents with children in the system, parents who have withdrawn their children from the system, and parents with children enrolled in private schools. The other phase will be a random telephone survey of 400 Cantabrigians. Declining enrollment has plagued the city’s schools over the past decade...
...player in the South Asian media market—the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The Harvard-owned management journal is launching its 11th international edition in Mumbai, home to the Hindi-language film industry. Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), the review’s not-for-profit parent company, announced last week that it would team with the India Today Group, a media conglomerate, on the South Asian venture. The South Asian monthly will contain close to the same content as the U.S. edition but will run regional advertising, according to HBR spokeswoman Cathy Olofson. The debut of HBR South...