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Laura D'Andrea Tyson didn't accept her new job because of the weather. After all, who'd swap sunny California for bleak Britain? Instead, Tyson - who was U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser from 1993 to 1996 - carefully weighed the pluses and minuses of a move from the dean's office at the University of California's Haas School of Business to the London Business School. "Weather isn't everything," says Tyson, who concluded that London is the place to be - a center for culture, commerce, the arts, business and world trade. Her task: to lead...
...meet that goal, the L.B.S. - a graduate college of the University of London - recruited Tyson, 54. Before taking up her new post in mid-January, she was the only woman leading a major U.S. business school. She became dean at Haas in 1998, having previously taught economics and business administration at its Berkeley campus. The liberal, New Jersey-born economist earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has also taught there, as well as at Princeton and Harvard - where her son, Elliott, 18, is studying government. Tyson, in mock horror, fears he'll become a politician. Married...
Since taking charge in London, Tyson has been on the go. Recently back from the World Economic Forum in New York, she will continue to travel, raising the L.B.S. profile and seeking "sustainable ways of funding growth" at the school. "While it is in the top 10," Tyson says, "it is up against strong international competition." Among other strategies, she plans to build on a unique "global executive m.b.a." program with New York's Columbia Business School, nurture links with the new Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and foster ties with other disciplines within the University of London...
There you are, Mike Tyson. You know you’re the world champ, that you get paid to bust heads for a living. And you know that heavyweight Mitch “Blood” Green is across from you. What do you do? You fight, right? It seems natural. So you knock the man out. Only when it’s over do you realize that it’s 4 a.m. and you’re on a Harlem street corner, not in the ring?...
...story is told chronologically backwards—beginning with the closing scene ending with the first—in a way that lets viewers feel Pearce’s disorientation. Few people walk the earth feeling that confused, but you’ve got to wonder if perhaps Mike Tyson is one of them...