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...been turned into an Oscar-nominated movie. The obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most big films tended to serious sentiment. Today, the dominant tone is irreverence, sarcasm, facetiousness. Can a time-capsule movie like this one have any resonance today? Can it find an audience to nurture in the old, noble, now-discredited Hollywood traditions...
...with the unions that allows employees to receive unemployment benefits for three months, and then guarantees their return to work. With recession looming, Duque worries about what lies ahead. "That's when we're going to start seeing factories closing for good," he says. "And then we'll have serious problems...
...Europe it has slowed, and economists say it should also drop back in Britain. Still, by borrowing huge amounts of cash to inject into the financial system, governments could create a medium-term inflation problem of their own. What's tricky is that the alternative is also a serious possibility: if household spending and business investment drop sharply and exports don't take up the slack, Europe could be confronted with deflation of the sort that took hold in Japan in the 1990s. "We're somewhere between the two," says Riches-Flores of Soci...
...teetering on the edge of recession, Duque worries about what lies ahead. La Sagra's brick works employ about 2,600 workers directly, and another 10,000 indirectly. If the economy worsens, says Duque, "We're going to start seeing factories closing for good, and then we'll have serious problems...
...must use the methods that each of us learned at HBS to solve the world’s social problems,” Cohen said. “If we dither and delay in dealing with housing repossession, unemployment, and inflation, then the backlash against capitalism will be serious.” ENTERPRISING NONPROFITSSummit attendees split up in the afternoon to attend interactive classroom sessions on a variety of topics. Business School professors Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard ’74 and Allen S. Grossman moderated a session on the future of social enterprise.Panelist Andrea...