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With the heaviest lifting behind it, Philips needs to address its underperforming share price: the stock has slid 20% on the Amsterdam bourse since July. Citigroup analysts are bullish, however, calling Philips "a growth company masquerading as a restructuring story." Whatever happens, Philips has faced tougher times. Just a short drive across town from the Eindhoven plant, you can visit the company's first factory, where beginning in 1891 it manufactured incandescent lightbulbs for ships and hotels. Back then, the company needed to churn out 500 each day to turn a profit. At the start, it could manage only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complex Task of Simplicity | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...class] is not something you can just throw together,” Stock said. “You have to make it very well thought out...It just takes some time to do it well...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gen Ed Slowly Adapted for Fall | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...faculty are still approaching the creation of new courses with a sense of “cautious optimism,” said James H. Stock, chair of the economics department...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gen Ed Slowly Adapted for Fall | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...only reason for caution is that we haven’t seen it in operation yet,” Stock said. “But people think that it’s going to be a good framework...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gen Ed Slowly Adapted for Fall | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...economy may also have helped quiet the sexual scene. Though no one can demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship, sexual caution and money troubles seem to go hand in hand, in the '30s as in the '80s. A common saying among sex therapists is "sex goes up with the stock market." The free spirits of the '60s are the busy careerists of the '80s, hustling for a dollar in a competitive job market. "The students you talk to want to do well," says retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

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