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...question for investors is how richly to pay today for a stake in companies that will profit from these trends in the future. The Indian market trades at a 20% premium over other emerging markets, making it too pricey to jump into now, says Adrian Mowat, JP Morgan's chief Asian equities strategist. Jon Thorn, a portfolio manager at India Capital Fund, disagrees. "The long-term case for investing there is without question the best in the world. I'm going around to all my investors saying, Now is the time," Thorn says. "You need to buy when there...
...menu engineer" based in Palm Springs, Calif., Rapp works with restaurants across the country and around the world to transform innocent lists of meals into profitable, user-friendly sales tools. Although his clientele includes such prominent chains as Chili's, his daylong "menu boot camps" have helped bring sophisticated marketing know-how to mom-and-pop diners and corner pubs. The objective for eateries big and small: a menu that grabs the customer's eye and steers it to high-profit dishes and moneymaking add-ons (like the side salad that is only $3.99 extra when you order the entr?...
...challenge isn't just to get the kids to eat healthy, but also to make money. When Taylor took the job 14 years ago, she was told she had to turn a profit in her first year or find a new employer. The dietitian turned marketer has stayed in the black ever since. But balancing her budget while trying to boost nutrition in the 2,600 lunches served daily is tough. Mixed salad greens cost 13˘ more per serving than iceberg lettuce; a whole-wheat bun costs 5˘ more than a white one. Like every other U.S. school district, Shawnee...
...Care" [May 29] reported on medical students' learning about the frustrations of the chronically ill. It is clear to anyone with a lick of common sense that doctors who are aware of patients' whole experience are able to provide better care and also save money. The HMO-dominated, profit-driven medical community is blind to the long-term costs of not resolving patients' health issues because it is so overly focused on the cost of a single test...
...management consultant who started her career with McKinsey & Company, Nolan is marshalling her skills from the private and non-profit sectors in an effort to address the Cambridge schools’ shortcomings...