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Those fears were abundantly evident in a recent Conference Board report showing that consumer confidence took an unexpected dip, sliding 11 points in February, and the present-situation index, which measures consumers' opinions on current economic conditions, plunged to its lowest level in 27 years. "People are scared," says Herzberg. (See the worst business deals...
...watchers generally took the news as a sign of GM's new assertiveness on image control. "The GM recall is a result of the heightened awareness that the manufacturers have on the quality of their products in the wake of Toyota's problems. We will continue to see automakers be very proactive about owning up to manufacturing problems before the issues become PR nightmares," says Jesse Toprak, an analyst with TrueCar.com...
...later in a 2006 book called “The Cure,” by Geeta Anand. In the fall of 2003, after the publication of the newspaper articles, Crowley and his wife began receiving calls from film producers seeking to make a movie about his experiences. It took the couple the better part of a year to get comfortable enough to sell their life-rights and become accustomed to the idea of their family’s struggle being portrayed on film...
...little disappointing in that [the film] made it seem that this fictitious company was not patient-focused and it took this moment [for employees at the company] to realize that lives were at stake,” Gorski says. “That’s something that’s on our mind every day through every trial that’s done here...
Executive Producer and writer for the hit show “Lost,” A. Carlton Cuse ’81 took a break from writing the show’s finale for an event almost as anxiously anticipated—his interview with FM. Cuse let us in on a few “Lost” secrets as we talked about making it in Hollywood, running Primal Scream, and locating Harvard’s Dharma Initiative station...