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...Rowan W. Dorin ’07, another Hoopes winner, said he viewed his thesis more as a process than as a product and that he valued the relationship he cultivated with his adviser while conducting research on medieval Mediterranean trade...
Cider's a cool brew now, but it wasn't always thus. "It was thought of as a product consumed by vagrants on park benches," says Maurice Pratt, C&C chief executive. Cider was commonly sold in large plastic bottles at discount prices, bolstering its cheap image. In Ireland, C&C's cider is called Bulmers Original (it's the same thing as Magners, but drinks company Scottish & Newcastle owns the Bulmers brand outside Ireland). Struggling with stagnant sales in the 1990s, C&C decided dowdy Bulmers needed a makeover. It cut the alcohol content to 4.5% (about the same...
...37signals team manages its products remotely, so when a problem pops up, it can be fixed without having to recall software or ask customers to install a patch. And if a new product isn't quite what customers wanted, 37signals can respond immediately. When the company launched Highrise, a contact-management tool, in March, customers pleaded for a specific format for freelancers. Within 36 hours, 37signals expanded its offering. "They implement a mix of what's on their own road map and what people suggest," says subscriber Chris Busse, a Web developer...
...Madagascar, and has begun adding tours and other services and even listing some big hotels. Travelers are invited to grade their room and even grade the owners for their social and environmental practices. "They're often doing neat things in sustainable tourism without realizing this is a marketable product," says Cordiner. He, naturally, would love to market...
...those aides was Sampson, 37, who assembled the list of U.S. attorneys to be fired and who was himself bucking for a U.S. ttorney post, despite the fact that he had limited experience as a prosecutor. The other was Monica Goodling, 33, the department's White House liaison, the product of a law school where more than half her graduating class flunked the bar exam on the first attempt. A March 2006 memo signed by Gonzales delegated authority to the two of them over the hiring and firing of 135 non-civil service Justice Department staffers. Amid the scandal, both...