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...flexibility of such clusters is sometimes held up as a model by experts on economic development such as Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. But the system has proved vulnerable to an onslaught of international competition. About 90% of the firms in the district have fewer than 20 employees, while just a dozen have more than 50, according to a study by Professor Roberto Grandinetti of the University of Padua. Local bankers say all but a few are sorely undercapitalized and lack the resources to build their business to a global scale. And virtually no one has much experience...
...Yale’s 733, and a ways back from winner Georgetown, who took first with 538 points. The Crimson looked strongest in its dinghy races—junior skipper Clay Johnson and junior crew Emily Simon guided the A division to seventh place overall, while senior skipper Vincent Porter teamed up with senior Ruth Schlitz and freshman Jon Garrity for a first-place finish in the B division. “The conditions were pretty tough, and there were a lot of good teams, so we knew it would be a pretty competitive event,” Johnson said...
...newest book, “Invisible Listeners,” Porter University Professor Helen Vendler sets out to describe a kind of address not entirely unlike these (parodies of) addresses: the call for intimacy, empathy, or attention a poet makes to a listener whom he cannot physically reach...
...Some teams have one or two rock stars and a third that’s not really as good. The fact that we’re not like that is definitely helpful at these regattas.”That depth comes in the form of seniors Vincent Porter and Ruth Schlitz, sophomores Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, as well as junior Matthew Knowles and freshman Jon Garrity, most of whom had already seen action this year.The men will all have next weekend off while the women will travel to Annapolis, Md. for the Navy Women’s Intersectional...
...company sends you the price. Some items have the prices written on the box” when they are delivered from corporate headquarters, said Kim Morgan, a cashier at the Porter Square CVS on 35 White St. “We just ring it in and the price just automatically comes...