Word: sargent
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...retail, the general rule has always been, the more customers, the better. But these days certain companies, like Staples and Best Buy, are concluding that when it comes to profitability, less may actually be more. TIME staff writer DANIEL EISENBERG talked with Staples CEO Ronald Sargent about how this bold marketing approach, among others, is helping the office-supply superstore giant pull away from the pack...
...those of us who belong to the university, those who do not are essentially banished from paradise. Travelers visiting Harvard are stopped at the main entrance—at most, they illicitly take photographs before being chased away by the library staff. The stacks, the reading rooms, the Sargent frescos and even the uncannily silent Harry Widener memorial are all out of their reach. What is worse, even many members of our clerical staff are excluded from using the libraries. Yet decisions about how to present such a central part of the university speak eloquently about how we relate...
...find (Cartier, Chanel, Louis Vuitton), his shops will offer an array of his own private-label products. Also on display in a gallery will be selected works from the world-class art collection that was prominently featured at the Bellagio. (Wynn recently paid $8.8 million for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.) While rival executives tend to mock his Renaissance-man profile, what really rankles them is his aggressive show-stealing tendencies. As Wynn's friend and fellow developer Irwin Molasky says, "Everyone is spending time anticipating and reacting to his next move." They are finding that...
...this any way to manage a franchise film? You bet it is. Written primarily by Alvin Sargent (who the credits indicate had a lot of help) and directed by Sam Raimi with his heart on his sleeve and his tongue in his cheek, Spider-Man 2 is 1) a sequel that's much better than the original movie and 2) probably the best special-effects extravaganza since Raiders of the Lost Ark. This is because the effects, though handsomely managed, don't overwhelm the story and characters...
While Glaeser has worked as a consultant to officials from New Zealand to Bolivia, Altshuler came to Harvard in 1998 which more extensive government experience. He worked adviser to Massachusetts Gov. Francis Sargent in the late 1960s and served as the state’s transportation secretary in the 1970s before joining Harvard’s faculty...