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...efficiently. The key was the separation of ownership and management. But were they ever supposed to get this separated? Count the layers of management. There's the management of the actual business, as a 19th century capitalist might have recognized it. Then there's the management of the corporate shell. Then there are the investment bankers, putting companies in and out of "play." Then there are the mutual-fund managers, buying and selling company shares. And now there are wraparound account managers, buying and selling mutual funds...
Vallier, equal parts meticulous and affable, says he's trying to create a "corporate" sensibility for the department. He formed his sense of what is properly corporate and professional during stints in the employee relations department at Shell Oil and as the vice president for human resources for a large health care provider...
...Cole reported that he pitched an egg 350 feet to Heller, who caught it without cracking the shell. That figure smashed the existing record and was forwarded to the Guinness Book, which published it in the appendix to its 1980 edition. The two appeared in three subsequent editions of the world record book...
Lawyers and clerks who work in the building are so overwhelmed, so shell-shocked by the almost daily barrage of public and media that they no longer answer reporters' questions about the inconvenience. Instead, they look weary, shrug their shoulders, and sigh...
Trying to crack a defensive shell is about as exciting and frustrating for the Crimson as it is for anyone to listen to Donald Fehr talk about the future of baseball...