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Eugene Foley, president and CEO of the non-profit bank open only to Harvard students, alumni, staff, and their family members said that the new 3,500 square foot location will be almost five times larger than the bank’s current spot inside the Holyoke Center Arcade...
...week, as it shed its personal computer past by finalizing the $1.25 billion sale of its PC division to China's Lenovo, IBM reaffirmed its transformation into an IT services provider - which also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional...
...just sitting there with hundreds of billions of dollars of discretionary income and very few kids left in the house to spend it on." Women make the majority of purchasing decisions. "The marketers I talked to for my research, I was expecting to find many of them poised to profit big on this pattern," Shellenbarger says. "But they didn't understand it. They were asking me questions - How does this play out? What do women want...
...lightened only by pencil drawings and the mordant poetry of Calvin Trillin. The formula is working: since the election of George W. Bush in 2000, its circulation has soared 96%, to 184,000; in 2004 the magazine enjoyed its best year ever, reversing years of losses to turn a profit of $251,000. If it's true that the fortunes of the Nation are inversely proportional to those of the nation, then things must be pretty bleak for the rest...
Election into the NAS, a non-profit group of scholars dedicated to advances in science and technology, is generally regarded as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a scientist, according to the NAS website...