Word: timbered
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Some firms were quicker than others to regard women as executive timber. In his latest book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Management Expert Peter Drucker reports that New York's Citibank was one of the first major companies to go after female M.B.A.s, in the 1970s. Recruiters who were sent out in search of the best male graduates in finance and marketing began reporting back to headquarters that many of the best graduates were women, not men. The bank told them simply to hire the best...
...While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses-there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves-few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehousecompany.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows...
...bespoke areas: a number of European companies are offering solidly constructed, customized treetop retreats which, for prices from $15,000, may be designed to fit almost any species of tree. While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses - there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves - few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehouse- company.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating...
...some assets, but increase the use of outside managers, changing the mix from 50 percent invested externally to, say, 65 percent. Another potential choice facing the CEO is for Harvard to invest securities through hedge funds via external managers but focus its in-house efforts on asset classes like timber...
...some assets, but increase the use of outside managers, changing the mix from 50 percent invested externally to, say, 65 percent. Another potential choice facing the CEO is for Harvard to invest securities through hedge funds via external managers but focus its in-house efforts on asset classes like timber...