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...these nice ladies? They're the powers behind the Kaplan Thaler Group, a hot New York City ad agency that had $900 million in billings last year. The duo created the iconic AFLAC duck, and clients include Procter & Gamble, Continental Airlines, Pfizer, Revlon and Office Depot. Thaler and Koval attribute their success in part to practicing what they preach in their 195-employee office. (Of course, having terrific creative work helps too.) At Kaplan Thaler, everyone gets a callback, and every résumé gets answered. "We may not have a job for somebody," says Thaler, "but everybody deserves the respect...
...companies have bought foreign pharmaceutical firms, auto-parts makers and aluminum suppliers. Last week a consortium led by India's Videocon Industries agreed to buy South Korean appliance maker Daewoo Electronics for $700 million. "Indian companies have become competitive, and they realize that," says Gurcharan Das, former CEO of Procter & Gamble India and author of the best-selling India Unbound. "The level of corporate governance has improved, the capital markets are a lot more sophisticated. The rest of the world now trusts...
...actually like orgo and want to learn about its biological applications. Or because they are legally insane.) They are routinely excluded from the grading curve in order “to be fair†to the 17 alums. The greatest drawback of the 20/30 classes is that Garry Procter is no longer teaching them. Professor Matthew Shair, who taught 27 last year, will take over 20 this spring. Not to worry—he has certainly (read: hopefully) learned by now that copying notes from a binder to the board and reading them aloud is not an effective teaching...
Wine as beauty regimen? Aeronautically refrigerated face cream? These are not ideas you would expect to come out of a Procter & Gamble or L'Oréal, no matter how many millions of dollars such conglomerates invest in research. But for smaller brands?many of which are hot targets?the more offbeat the idea, the better. Mathilde Thomas, co-founder of the French vinotherapy brand Caudalie, feels that smaller brands can take risks, ultimately, and that's what keeps the consumer interested...
...determine where capital flows. Winter also points out that in markets where corporate structure remains cloudy--China is a prime example--investors can more safely tap some of the excitement by owning multinationals. "You don't have to buy local stocks to do this," he says. A quarter of Procter & Gamble's sales come from emerging markets, for example, and China alone accounts for 14% of revenues at Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Buying more-established companies may seem less exotic, but for a cautious investor, it's a way to wade into the shallow end of the emerging...