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...took the company public in 1966. But by the time Bowles became CEO in 1998, the Southern textile industry was under siege from imports. A financial analyst by training (and political wife by fate--she's married to Erskine Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September 2001, for $1.2 billion. The family is the majority shareholder. Tom O'Connor, executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility...
Welcome to the next marketing frontier. For years, Western companies have understood the potential of 1 billion consumers in India, but now they are slowly starting to realize the purchasing power of people in the U.S. who trace their roots to the subcontinent--a group known as desis. MTV India has aired overseas since 1996, but MTV Desi--a channel for Americans of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Bhutanese and Nepalese descent--is brand new, launching this summer. And MTV isn't alone as it chases desi dollars. South Asian marketing is still in its infancy, but early adopters like...
...leading into a blind alley," says Jim Wheaton, who teaches media law at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. "If the Supreme Court had taken the case, it was likely to say there's no privilege, period." Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism department, understood the logic of Time Inc.'s ultimate decision. "I find it hard to get worked up into the same outrage as others about the Time decision, which seems to me to be a practical decision," he told the Wall Street Journal...
...their study, the researchers focus on the theory of “acting white”—generally understood as the situation in which black students face ridicule from their peers for engaging in behaviors allegedly considered to be characteristic of whites, such as earning good grades, raising their hand in class, reading books, or taking an interest in the fine arts...
...Harvard University administration over violations of their free-speech rights.” But in a book where virtually all the other commentary are made either by Thomas or by HLS professors and students, Silverglate’s ubiquitous presence seems out of place—unless he is understood as a vehicle for Thomas’ own commentary...