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...Campbell, 50, manager of electronic commerce with the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, readily saw the need for a quick update in his field. He took a one-week, $5,000 course in managing technology and strategic innovation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. "What I learned keeps me and my group at the Postal Service on the cutting edge of technology and customer innovation," Campbell says. "Who would have thought a few years ago that people like me would be sitting in a class swapping Internet war stories...
...your skills. Take the case of Eva Wisnik, 35, a New York City career strategist and executive recruiter, who found that a special one-week $875 program in Fairfax, Va., on administering a career-assessment test was more valuable to her than her M.B.A., which cost $20,000 and took four years to complete on a part-time basis. "I have earned at least $45,000 from administering this test to about 900 people over the past few years," she reports. "This is far more than any actual earnings that my M.B.A. has brought...
...delegation visiting Nigeria to push for democratic reforms when he had trouble breathing and collapsed. Ninety minutes later, he died in a military hospital. The mystery of his death touched off riots in Lagos and other southwestern cities that left at least 55 dead as his fellow Yorubas took revenge on Hausa northerners, the ethnic group that dominates the military regime. Angry youths set fires and barricaded the streets of Lagos, battling police and soldiers. Though the doctors attending him said Abiola appeared to have died from a heart attack, some of his relatives immediately charged that he had been...
...they needed. "With no promotion, no advertising and just word of mouth, something was happening," Moritz recalls. "Jerry and David had developed something for themselves that, I think probably to their great surprise and consternation, was as attractive to other people as it was to them." Moritz took a gamble on the entrepreneurs and gave them $1 million for a 25% stake (it turned out to be a good bet--that stake would now be worth around $2 billion). Stanford told them they could keep the venture on campus at least initially, which they did. And they called themselves Yahoo...
Local politicians took the opportunity to lambaste Harvard and demand the University adopt a contracting policy modeled on Cambridge's own "Responsible Employer Ordinance" to ensure contractors provide adequate benefits to their workers...