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...store shelves. "We need a new breed of social entrepreneur to address the technology needs of the world's underprivileged," said the late Dewang Mehta, a visionary who headed India's software trade body, nasscom, until his sudden death in mid-April. The Bangalore Seven has formed a for-profit spin-off, picoPeta, to manage the Simputer's commercial birth. Deshpande gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access...
...footsteps that Japan's baseball executives were moved to action. Led by Shigeyoshi Ino, general manager of the Pacific League Kobe-based Orix Blue Wave (owned by Orix Corp., a major leasing company), they came up with a plan designed to close the Nomo loophole and enable management to profit from the growing rash of defections. The so-called posting system gives a player still a year or two shy of free-agent eligibility the opportunity to sign up with a major league team - if that team agrees to pay his Japanese club a negotiating fee. Last year...
Japan's game is structured differently from its American cousin. In the U.S., the 30 major league teams, which draw more than 72 million fans annually, exist purely for profit. They maintain extensive farm and scouting systems and are run by people with years of experience in the pro game. Japan's teams, concentrated mainly in the Tokyo and Osaka areas, exist primarily to advertise the products of their corporate owners - like the pork sold by the sponsors of the Nippon Ham Fighters. They invest sparingly in player development: only one farm team per franchise is the norm, and teams...
...told his audience that a raise in the wage was necessary to ensure that “while America competes better and enjoys greater prosperity, no Americans slip through the cracks.” These standards apply even more stringently to Harvard. The University is a non-profit that invests in its community, and as the Harvard community has overwhelmingly recognized, it owes its workers for their labor a decent standard of living...
Guerrier, who also plans on working in medicine, said she will gain experience in public health by working with thirty Dorchester teenagers as a health coordinator for the non-profit Urban Dreams...