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...uniform. Disney faces hefty claims for back pay from 3,000 workers. First to Finnish Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has topped French business school INSEAD's list of the world's most effective companies. Other high scorers are Renault and BNP Paribas. Confidence Trick While its rivals issue profit warnings, German software giant SAP forecast 20% growth in sales in the first half of the year and announced an alliance with Yahoo to develop corporate websites. Shares rose 8%. Working Up a Thirst Labor unions voted to strike over a planned packaging-plant closure at Irish brewer Guinness, which produces...
...Does she have any concerns about trading on her fame in order to profit from spirituality...
...with schools hardened by competition and run with businesslike efficiency—an idea similar, one may assume, to the rationale behind the Bush presidency. Rather than simply throwing more money at a school, the bloated school budget would be put in the hands of a private, often for-profit, company. Students and parents may be given a choice about where to attend school, forcing schools to compete for their students. Charging a private organization with the handling of a public school is the ultimate move to clean up a school, suggesting not only a severe lack of trust...
Operators of profit-making colleges, which primarily serve working adults, like to think they are in a recession-proof business. If a bear market forces layoffs, they theorize, people in search of retraining and new careers return to school. Wall Street seems to agree. While most stocks have been slumping, the shares of two college systems with strong online programs have surged. Corinthian Colleges Inc. specializes in health care, technology and criminal justice and offers courses on the Internet and at 56 campuses in 19 states. Apollo Group owns the University of Phoenix, online education's oldest degree-granting institution...
...Dell Computer, tech bellwether of bellwethers, announced Wednesday night that it didn't have much idea of what was going to happen for the rest of the year, but that its revenue and profit numbers for the first quarter wouldn't be any worse than it had predicted...