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...distribution business Li & Fung, based in Hong Kong, has applied self-organizing models from the natural world to stitch together a network of thousands of microsuppliers to keep its complicated--and generally low-margin--business running at a 30% profit margin...
...currency is rising in the first place. "I think we're in a situation where the euro goes up because the dollar goes down," says Thomas Mayer, chief economist at investment bank Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "The biggest worry is that a sharp appreciation of the euro reduces profit expectations in European industry and leads to a broadly based weakness." Take a German-based manufacturer of machine tools, for example. With the euro higher, the price of the company's goods on the world market will have to rise. That leads to lower profits back home in Germany from overseas...
...Shulman asserts the market does not always work. He argues that universities, as non-profit organizations, should seek the public good regardless of considerations of profit...
...premise was simple. Buy things at exorbitant prices, wait 10 weeks and get all your money back. The company would use the money you’d paid for the merchandise to turn an investment profit before returning the capital to you. The customer kept the merchandise. $250 DVDs, $10,000 LCD monitors, and other insanely priced items came to Harvard’s mail centers, and for the most part, things worked well. Until things stopped working...
...It’s the most interesting legal job, certainly in the not-for-profit sector, possibly in the legal landscape of the whole country,” Rowe said...