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...overall MG Rover sales were down to just over 100,000, less than half what the firm needed to break even. BMW invested more than $4 billion in Rover, but even the firm's smartest and most successful engineers and marketers failed to turn the company around. That, argues Peter Schmidt of Britain-based consultants Automotive Industry Data, is at least in part a sign of the innate fragility of auto brands. "Image is very, very significant in this business," Schmidt says. "Once your image is badly damaged, you can come up with the most wonderful car and people still...
...PETER SCHMIDT, automotive consultant
...former talk about sports and Harvard was once how our graduates were invading Major League Baseball, led by Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ‘95, Red Sox Director of Player Operations Peter Woodfork ‘99, A’s Assistant GM (and Billy Beane’s right-hand man) David Forst ‘98, and recently-promoted Marlins VP and Assistant GM Mike Hill...
Ongoing through April 28. Playthings, a showing of art by Peter Smuts. Three Columns Gallery, Mather House. Admission free...
Fortunately (and predictably) the more developed plots turn out considerably better. Graham (Don Cheadle) threatens to be pious when a District Attorney (Brendan Fraser) offers to help his delinquent younger brother Peter (Larenz Tate) in exchange for covering up evidence that exculpates a racist cop. Impressively, this tragic family story is delivered with understanding and humanity...