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...raise your share price: turn employees into customers. But that trick - what some Toyota department heads in Nagoya, Japan, did this week by asking managers to purchase new cars by the end of the fiscal year - won't stop Toyota's sliding stock. As a stronger yen continues to batter Japanese exporters selling into depressed economies around the world, the Nikkei 225 stock index dances around its 26-year...
...hope the Israelis know there is a non-Israeli who fervently prays for their success [Jan. 12]. Hamas provokes, as always, and waits for the world to condemn Israel. I don't know why people cannot see through this cheap trick. Vani Valluri, SECUNDERABAD, INDIA...
...Award, while Kessler set school records with a 1.06 goals against average and a .952 save percentage.Both players have remained solid this season, but the dominant performances that seemed to be the norm for the pair a year ago have appeared less frequently.That is, until this weekend.A Vaillancourt hat trick led Harvard (8-7-3, 8-4-2 ECAC) to a 5-3 victory over Brown (3-12-1, 2-7-0) in Providence on Friday while Kessler was rock solid between the posts in New Haven under heavy fire from a relentless Yale offense, consistently denying the Bulldogs...
...trick of the real estate trade is price-rent ratio, sort of the property equivalent of a stock's price-earnings ratio. What it's saying lately is encouraging, though not downright bullish...
Plenty of companies with charismatic leaders can still thrive after they're gone, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at Stanford University's business school. Recent examples include Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines and the Mayo Clinic, he says. The trick lies in the ability of successors to understand what made a company great--and preserve that part of the culture. And what's Jobs' secret sauce? "Most company leaders do what everyone else does," says Pfeffer. "The genius of Jobs is to get his company and its people to get out of that rut--to not follow the crowd but lead...