Word: spar
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...professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management who received a doctorate in business economics from Harvard in 1988; Nitin Nohria, Chapman professor of business administration at HBS; John Quelch, Filene professor of business administration at HBS and former dean of the London Business School; Debora L. Spar, Spangler professor of business administration and senior associate dean for faculty recruiting at HBS; Peter Tufano ’79, Coleman professor of financial management and director of faculty development at HBS; and Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former dean of Berkeley?...
...Navasky enrolled there part time after buying the magazine in 1994. Navasky, whose previous book, Naming Names, was an acclaimed history of the Hollywood blacklist, is far more effective and entertaining in chronicling the brawls "between liberals and radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration...
...would never guess the nation had ever smelled a recession, Japan is beset by a host of social, political and economic problems: a shaky financial system, chronically low GDP growth, an aging population, hidebound and paralyzed political leaders. Meanwhile, China, the sleeping giant next door, has awakened to spar with Japan over export markets and natural resources, challenging Japan's customary position as the region's role model. In the past year, foreign direct investment in Japan dropped by 3%. In China, it surged...
...show meeting is like a trainer might spar with his fighter,” Griffin says. “In Chris’ gut is so much information, but you have to get him to break a sweat before the show...
...first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical standards and operating behavior. Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank...