Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Author J. Paul Mark, an ex-Harvard researcher, accuses many B-school profs of stealing ideas from students and using them to get consulting fees and corporate directorships. Dean John McArthur censures the book for "hundreds of factual errors and fabricated events." Typical of the screaming wounded: Professor Michael Porter, who claims Mark never talked with him before writing a tale of alleged pirating of student concepts in a business-strategy plan for the National Football League. There is talk of libel suits against author and publisher. But Mark stands by his work, saying, "It doesn't surprise me they...
Assistant Dean of the College Ellen Porter Honnet first conceived of the project when four students expressed an interest in this type of alcohol and drug information service...
...challenged one of my female friends, LaShawn Porter, to a tennis match. She accepted instantly. Feeling confident, I even let her choose the courts...
However, it wasn't as if I needed more impetus to win. In my mind, I was going to exonerate Mr. Riggs by beating Ms. Porter just 15 miles from the site of his loss--in Missouri City, a suburb of Houston...
After their interesting comments, I decided that I had to have some sort of revenge. At first, I considered challenging Ms. Porter to boxing, fencing or skiing, but I decided against those sports. I knew that I could not have any satisfaction unless I beat her in tennis--except this time, we would play doubles...