Word: schwab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volume of Shakespeare on my back and searched the Internet for information about adventure racing, a fast-growing sport in which small teams navigate over long, difficult courses by kayak or mountain bike, on foot and on horseback. I'm training with members of the Charles Schwab Adventure Racing Club, who believe the sport does wonders for corporate esprit and performance...
Daniel Hubbard, director of corporate communications at Schwab, which is America's leading online broker, created the club for employees at his company's San Francisco headquarters. He believes adventure racing will develop personal and team skills. He also hopes it will help his workers get to know one another better or meet for the first time, and will promote loyalty to the company. About 10 members of the club, a continuing Schwab endeavor, will later represent Schwab in a race Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. It will include some 30 corporations, so the program may also be used...
...find--as fast as we can--a set of checkpoints hidden in 50 acres of rolling hills, tree-dotted valleys and streambeds. I'm sorry that I, who cannot find my way around the Time & Life Building, have nothing to offer my teammates, Alison Murray, senior staff at Schwab's information technology enterprise, and Elisa Takao, senior event manager. Confused by the compass and map, I am alienated, bored and cynical. When forced to become head navigator, I wave vaguely at a tree. We return without finding all our checkpoints...
...turns out, that was the easy part. Night has fallen, and we are going to find another set of checkpoints in the dark. This time I behave more maturely. My Schwab partners are Dan Hubbard and Rob Sinclaire, a service-enhancement senior manager. Our Presidio guide is Eddie Freyer, a longtime FBI agent and director of SWAT-team programs. We stride along enjoying the cool, moonlit night. Rob and I discuss our mutual fondness for Tony Hillerman's novels, even imagining we are helping Joe Leaphorn track a killer out there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged...
...managers to keep more cash on hand, hurting long-term results. For that and other reasons, the fund industry hasn't embraced the notion. But neither did the stock exchanges embrace No-Doz hours--until day traders demanded time to pursue their addiction at home. And neither did Merrill Schwab and Charles Lynch expect to be so much alike that you might confuse their names. These things happened because individuals have become the key force in the market. If individuals decide they want to day-trade funds, it will happen. There are now thousands of specialized funds to suit whims...