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University President Lawrence H. Summers said that the strength of the Broad Institute will be its parent institutions. “I am convinced that there is no other city in the world with as many extraordinary scientists at every level...prepared to work on biomedical problems,” Summers said...
...someone who was never very good at taking advice, I feel somewhat unhappy about dispensing the kind of wisdom that I myself always made a point of disregarding. As a parent, I’ve always been amazed at how children thrive when they do exactly the opposite of what you think is in their best interests. Still, at the risk of encouraging conformity among those who think differently, I want to endorse the power of taking risks, going out on a limb, sticking your neck out, deviating from the straight and narrow, doing all those things that require...
...father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake in chemical giant DuPont to buy Universal Studios' parent MCA in 1995 and recording company PolyGram...
When Bronfman sold Seagram to Vivendi for shares of the French utility and telecommunications company's stock, he wasn't the only media exec seduced by an ill-considered merger; the wedding of Time Warner (parent of TIME) to AOL comes to mind. But that's not much comfort to the Bronfman clan, which has seen its stake shrivel (in part because of stock sales) from $6.5 billion to a little more than $1 billion. So where will Edgar Jr. get the money for his bid? Analysts say Universal Music Group could sell for about $7 billion, and the rest...
From her volunteer position on Minnesota’s Riverfront Advisory Committee, she was hired to develop a plan for the state’s riverfront development. And because of her active role as a volunteer for the Parent Teacher Association, she worked for three years evaluating local school programs as part of the Minneapolis Accountability Project...