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...left with a world that even just five years ago would have seemed topsy turvy: an Indian software firm that employs 500 people in Puerto Rico, a Chinese auto-parts maker with R&D centers in Detroit and Ontario, Calif. If you're a region trying to hang on to business, geography offers little protection anymore, especially as free-trade zones proliferate in countries from Dubai to Mauritius, and burgeoning heavyweights like Turkey take out full-page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard...
...players. Sandisk, a Milpitas, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells memory cards, moved its manufacturing base there from Manassas, Virginia a few years ago, partly to be closer to Toshiba, a company it partners with. Yokkaichi already had the infrastructure for both manufacturing and for the large R&D outfit that goes along with making memory cards. "By having it all in close proximity, it reduces overhead costs," says Sandisk president and COO Sanjay Mehrotra, "and that's the name of the game, to be able to produce product at the lowest possible cost." (Notice that had nothing...
...Patrick R. Chesnut '09 and Jake G. Cohen '09, arts chairs...
...many parts of the country, there are many good students who are just now beginning to focus on the whole college process,” said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. “I would rather respond to this great need rather than be back in the office deliberating on early applicants...
...media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated, those three received the lowest marks. Even the institutions that fared best—the military and medicine—received barely passing grades, with respondents expressing only “moderate” confidence. David R. Gergen, the Center for Public Leadership’s director, said he found the results disturbing. “There’s something more profound here than unhappiness with the president and the war in Iraq,” said Gergen, a former advisor to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan...