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...geriatric hard-liner, but he is also one of Raul's closest confidantes and may help his reforms navigate the minefield of Fidelista resistance during the early stages of Raul's rule. Those changes are expected to include broadening private enterprise, especially in the agriculture and service sectors - institutionalizing profit-oriented farmers' markets, for example, and letting families run more varied small businesses...
...what was then a cash-strapped Medical School, and to increase Harvard’s involvement in global public health. Over the past two decades, HMI has proved highly successful in both capacities. After repaying its startup loan, HMI has posted consistently expanding revenues, bringing in $1.5 million in profit for HMS in 2006. Perhaps more importantly, HMI has participated in many important public health projects, ranging from advising a major German medical school on how to educate students to masterminding the construction of Dubai’s healthcare infrastructure. While HMI is not a research institution...
...Philips has faced tougher times. Just a short drive across town from the Eindhoven plant, you can visit the company's first factory, where beginning in 1891 it manufactured incandescent lightbulbs for ships and hotels. Back then, the company needed to churn out 500 each day to turn a profit. At the start, it could manage only 400. In case Van Deursen needs any encouragement: things have a habit of getting simpler...
...said. “His focus on what he calls corruption couldn’t be better timed, given public sentiment this election cycle.” Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. Last summer, Lessig surprised many of his longtime admirers by announcing that he would shift his scholarly focus from copyright and cyber law to the issue of political corruption. He cited...
...With the approval of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, the Medical School’s non-profit subsidiary was striking the deals that laid the groundwork for skyrocketing revenues in the ensuing years...