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Disappointed by sparse attendance at Harvard Stadium in games past, the juniors have co-founded “The Spectacle of Soul Project,” a non-profit organization that will provide excess football tickets to underprivileged children living in Boston’s inner-city...
Some popular eateries around the Square say this commission is too much for certain businesses to squeeze under their profit margins, and that they have not been able to accept Crimson Cash because of its cost...
...pilot seat, new CEO Gerard Arpey brought in corporate counselors to change the company's culture and slashed the airline's operating costs, making American the most efficient big-network carrier. But the airline's troubles aren't over. Despite increasing revenue and posting a modest $30 million profit in March, the airline is still losing money because of rising fuel prices. Huge pension costs, soft business travel and competition from low-cost carriers like Southwest and JetBlue could still wipe out the airline's mini-recovery...
...onetime auto-assembly worker who as Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998 pulled the U.S. Postal Service into the black; in Nashville, Tenn. Raising the stamp price only once (from 29 to 32), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan's first auto plant...
...peas. Polet has big, fancy shoes to fill at Gucci. Outgoing CEO Domenico De Sole is credited, along with designer Tom Ford, with reviving the empire. But Polet is a brand builder too. In his last post as president of Unilever's $7.8 billion frozen-foods division, he raised profit margins 70% in a little more than three years...