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...Ferrara ’95-’96 left Harvard with a reputation as the third most prolific passer in the football team’s history. A little more than ten years later, the former quarterback has developed a product that could impact Crimson football again. Over the last four years, Ferrara and his Boston-based start-up company, Xenith LLC, have designed a new and safer football helmet, which is receiving accolades from physicians around the nation. “It’s thrilling to see a whole new technology,” said Robert...
...safety linger at least partly because there are no official standards for its use. Because it isn't classified as a firearm by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taser is exempt from federal firearms requirements and regulations. And while the Consumer Product Safety Commission has jurisdiction over the models sold to consumers, it has done no investigations of its safety...
...autopen. The iconic British car company is expecting already rising sales to soar. Well, relatively speaking. This is, after all, a company whose ambition is to sell a mere 1,000 cars a year. That's a goal now in reach, thanks to upcoming expansions of the Rolls product line, increasing numbers of extremely rich potential buyers, and fast-growing Asian markets...
...also true that luck favors the well-prepared. Schwarzenegger was able to move those National Guard troops quickly because he had a plan in place to redeploy them in an emergency. The obvious competence of the emergency response - in stark contrast to the debacle of Hurricane Katrina - was the product of years of training, planning and drills...
...food brands such as Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim. R. Dean Hollis, who runs the Consumer Foods Division at ConAgra, spoke to the group about problem-solving. He presented a case study on how ConAgra, facing stagnant sales with its Hebrew National kosher beef hot dogs, began marketing the product to non-Jews by saying that they were healthier than regular hot dogs. Sales for Hebrew National went up 8 percent for fiscal year 2007.“The true test of a company is not whether it has problems, but what the company does when it has problems...