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...call on his old friend Benjamin Franklin, now 81 and gout-ridden, who traveled around Philadelphia in the city's first sedan chair, a glass-windowed Parisian creation carried by four prisoners from the Walnut Street jail. Franklin, who knew Washington's tastes well, had a cask of porter ready...
...Roger Porter, who served as a White House aide in the Ford and Reagan Administrations, the point was brought home in Reagan's first term when Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel told the Cabinet he would like to reduce the Office of Fossil Energy to 591 people but was stymied because Congress had decreed the office could not be shrunk below 754. "The efforts by Congress to micromanage the Executive business are most unfortunate," says Porter, who now teaches a course on the presidency at Harvard. It makes for good theater in the electronic age but, in Porter's view...
...Wayne Porter...
...urge to merge often causes big businesses to splurge, buying operations that they wind up selling for a loss. So concludes Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. Porter examined 1,601 acquisitions made by 33 major U.S. corporations from 1950 to 1980. By last January, he found, they had dumped 53% of the ventures, rarely at a profit...
...Porter says companies either chose the wrong businesses or overspent for them. He gives low marks to CBS, which had shed 87% of the businesses it acquired in the 30-year period; and RCA, now a unit of General Electric, which had dropped 80%. Why do so many executives diversify? Porter shrugs, saying, "They're drawn like moths to the flame...