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...contract that gave Ticketmaster exclusive ticketing distribution for most of Live Nation's 29,000 annual events, a loss that will rob the ticketing giant of about 20% of its sales. Instead, Live Nation is pumping up its own in-house ticket distribution arm, already the third largest in the world, which gives it a direct link to the music fans attending its shows. Not to be outdone, Ticketmaster significantly increased its stake in Front Line Management, an agency that represents such acts as Christina Aguilera, Jimmy Buffett and Aerosmith, when rumors swirled that Live Nation wouldn't renew...
...balance, then it didn't work out and revisions were much more difficult," says David J. Andersson '09, Cast Vice President for the HPT.At the beginning of the comp process, writers submit a few scenes and songs. The final submission, which is made after two cuts, consists of two-thirds to three-fourths of a completed script. The new comp process allows the executive board to work more closely with writers along the way, helping to minimize substantial revisions at a later time."As people who have been doing the Pudding for several years, we can help the writers, especially...
...Eivind Reiten is unlikely to forget. On Oct. 1, the oil and gas arm of Hydro, an Oslo-based energy and metals company he was running, completed a $36 billion merger with Statoil, its beefier Norwegian rival, creating the world's largest offshore energy operator. Five days later, Reiten hosted his country's King and Queen in Nyhamna, a third of the way up Norway's west coast, at the official launch of a record-breaking gas production and processing project forged by Hydro to harness gas from 120 km away under the Norwegian...
...India roar ahead of the world in economic growth, multinational firms eager to partake of their labor and consumer markets are rushing in--and sending their best executives to lead the charge. The U.S. expat population has leaped over the past five years, according to experts, in large part because of growing delegations to China and India. And yet the two emerging giants remain famously tough for Western executives to navigate. In a 2006 survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services, they are cited among the three most difficult locations for expats (the third is Russia). Corporations are learning that these...
...biggest challenge will be in the next 10 years?MJS: May I give you three? First, changing the academic culture so that Harvard undergraduate education can be as good as it should be; second, building the sciences while helping the humanities to find their mission and voice; and third, figuring out how Harvard should define its global presence and engage with higher education in the developing world.10.FM: Given your communitarian arguments, could you tell a Nazi that Nazism is wrong?MJS: I assume you mean persuade, not just tell a Nazi that Nazism is wrong. I would try a range...