Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. BENNO SCHMIDT, 86, pioneer venture capitalist, health-policy adviser to several Presidents and father of former Yale president Benno C. Schmidt Jr.; in New York City. A J.H. Whitney partner, Schmidt backed risky start-ups, including Minute Maid orange juice--which he at first deemed "tinny" in taste.
That isn't an ad for a 12-step program for workaholics. It's an act of employer desperation. Steve Loegering, president and CEO of Loegering Manufacturing, ran the pitch to attract workers to his firm in Casselton, N.D., 20 miles west of Fargo, in what Loegering jokingly labels the...
But when a big-dollar deal fell through, Garnick felt increasing pressure from his venture capitalist to hit the numbers in his original business plan. He was eventually told to hire a president to oversee operations. Garnick says he stepped down as CEO "for the good of the company," though...
But in a booming economy, unorthodox working hours also pose important problems. How will companies manage to fill night and weekend positions when they can't find enough people to work a traditional week? Even more important, how will they persuade the highly skilled and well educated, who already have...
So you're sitting at a dinner table in Helsinki, staring at your client. What should you talk about? With guidance from International Business Etiquette: Europe by Ann Marie Sabath (Career Press), you would know that Finns are very private people. Don't ask questions about their private lives unless...