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With the likes of Weed and Mattison now coming on strong to add extra punch to the Crimson's roster, Harvard will hope to upend Hartford on the road on Saturday. The Crimson has not won on the Hawks' home turf since...
Back in September, the Harvard field hockey team's prospects were bolstered by the team's new turf. Now, they're defined by sweat...
...come from digital products, its color machines are wildly popular, and it is well positioned to be a leader in on-demand, custom publishing. But a slew of newly aggressive players, from Canon and Ricoh to Hewlett-Packard, have done better, steadily encroaching on its once exclusive, very lucrative turf. From 1997 to 1999, Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from the near monopoly level of 75% to 45%, according to Cap Ventures, a document consulting firm...
While the strategy is sound, the execution was anything but. Without sufficient training, copier sales reps were suddenly attempting to speak a foreign language, about sophisticated computer networks. As they tried to get up to speed on their new assignments, they quickly became demoralized, turf wars ensued, and accounts were lost in the shuffle, leaving them all too vulnerable. A concurrent reorganization of the company's byzantine back-office operations, which caused customer bills and orders to pile up, only added to the chaos. As Daniel Kunstler, senior analyst at JP Morgan, puts it, "If the person you want...
...Milosevic for control of the territory. The war saw Rugova eclipsed by the KLA leadership, and by the time it ended State Department officials were feting Thaci and expressing wariness over Rugova. But the continuing violence in Kosovo, which includes both attacks on the remaining Serbs and internecine Albanian turf wars, may have turned many Kosovar Albanians back to Rugova, particularly in light of the fact that the Serbs, too, have elected a man who appears to favor negotiation over violence...