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Chinese companies sometimes start out as carbon copies of successful overseas ventures. But replication doesn't happen overnight. Take Ctrip, the market leader for online travel reservations. The company, founded in 1999, initially hoped to be an instant Chinese version of Expedia but soon realized that rushing to provide the...
In 2000, Ctrip acquired a hotel-reservation operation, Xiandai Yuntong Tourism Service, which gave it a large presence in the traditional offline travel business. After giving its new acquisition a successful online dimension, Ctrip began to move into other travel sectors. In 2002, it diversified into air tickets, and after...
Failing to Empower Cabinet Members on Domestic Policy. Obama has put numerous talented people in his Cabinet, from a Nobel Prize winner to several successful governors, but like his predecessor, he has no system to get the most out of them. Cabinet members in the domestic-policy cluster have less...
There are other connections, too. Krikorian has written for Tanton’s hate journal, "The Social Contract." Wayne Lutton, a board member of the white nationalist Charles Martel Society who has been published by a Holocaust-denying publication, edits the journal. Its most notorious venture was a special issue...
By changing the way that students perceive themselves, these schools are transforming communities. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2007 found that “Even when pre-existing differences between KIPP and comparison students are controlled in statistical analyses, KIPP students generally outperformed comparison school students on achievement measures...