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Despite its history, HSBC needs to do far more business in developing markets like China to spur growth. After focusing much of its energy over the past seven years on mature economies, it is locked in a global contest with its chief rival, Citigroup, to tap the pocketbooks of the world's newly rich. From South Korea to India to Brazil, HSBC is expanding its branch network, launching new financial products and marketing its brand. In December HSBC acquired 10% of Vietnam's Techcombank; in November HSBC said it planned to launch the first independent investment bank in Saudi Arabia...
...visit schools in each country to talk with high school students and college counselors, Shakir said. The group will make longer stops in Dubai, Kuwait, and Cairo, where it will hold larger information sessions for multiple schools in addition to specific visits.“Our goal is to spur the number of Arab applicants to Harvard by encouraging to apply and advising them in the process,” said Shakir, “and to engage in and promote future cross-academic exchanges between Harvard and the region.”The trip is being sponsored...
Clayton-Pedersen and O’Neill said that there were no plans for any follow-up research to the project, but rather expressed a hope that it would spur researchers and institutions all over the country to re-evaluate their data...
That bucket triggered a 12-2 run, finished off with an emphatic slam by Stehle that saw Harvard’s lead balloon to 17 with 11:30 remaining in the contest. The Crimson made eight of its first nine baskets of the second half to spur the charge...
...Brotherhood uses its clout may be determined by younger leaders like el-Erian, who heads the party's political department. A practicing physician, el-Erian, 51, joined the group after Israel's defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...