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...Procter & Gamble Sales Management is, in my humble opinion, the best opportunity available for Harvard students interested in pursuing careers in business...
Sometimes the medium is the message. When the National Council of Negro Women held workshops for people organizing family reunions -- increasingly popular events in the black community -- companies like Reebok and Kellogg signed up to exhibit their products. Other major-league merchandisers, like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, distribute samples of their products in gift bags that are handed out after Sunday service to parishioners at black churches...
Stephanie McGuire has a more harrowing tale. The Florida activist has threatened to sue Procter & Gamble, charging that a company pulp mill has polluted the water around the town of Perry. Two weeks ago, she was attacked at her remote fishing camp by three men who beat her and burned her with a cigar. The men cut her on the cheek and chest and poured water from the contaminated river on the wounds, taunting her, she says, with the words "This is what you get for trying to make us lose our jobs." P&G denies any connection with...
...management shake-up was orchestrated by retired Procter & Gamble chairman John Smale. In a break with company tradition, Smale became chairman of the important executive committee, a job previously reserved for inside directors. His elevation left many around Detroit wondering how long Stempel, 58, would be at the wheel. Last Thursday Smale attempted to ease Stempel's humiliation by vowing that the chairman retained the "full support and confidence" of the board in his efforts to improve GM's North American operations. That will be no small trick: analysts estimate that GM lost up to $400 million in the first...
...federal backwater best known for being slow to approve potentially life-saving drugs. The agency gained some respect in 1991 as new commissioner David Kessler took aim at the food industry, insisting that nutritional claims on labels be based on scientific fact. The FDA seized brand-name products like Procter & Gamble's Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice that failed to meet strict standards...