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...helped direct the NBA's explosive growth overseas. NBA commissioner David Stern tapped the litigator and lifelong Knicks fan as a special assistant a decade ago and in 1997 named him president of NBA Entertainment. Stern eventually moved all the league's off-court businesses to Silver's unit, which now controls the league's worldwide marketing, TV and Internet operations. Since Silver became the business czar in 2000, worldwide merchandising sales have grown 67%. "Adam has overcome his status as a lawyer to understand branding," says Stern. "He's the doer, and I get all the credit." If Stern...
...some ways, Noel Tata is an unlikely candidate to take over the Tata Group, India's most famous business conglomerate, which sells everything from steel to information-technology consulting to coffee and tea. The 46-year-old heads Trent, the group's retail unit, which had $27 million in revenue last year--a tiny share of the conglomerate's overall $11.2 billion revenue. But Noel has the right dynastic connections to take over the group, founded by an ancestor in the 19th century. His half brother Ratan is now chairman, and father-in-law Pallonji Mistry...
...expanded its chain of Westside retail stores, which stock perfume, crockery and Westside's brand of upmarket clothing. Sales were up 33% last year, helping his case as unofficial front runner to succeed Ratan in 2008. Noel was also recently appointed to the boards of Titan, the Tata watchmaking unit, and Voltas, an air-conditioning giant...
...still hurt newborns? That's the question posed by a study that tracked 151 preterm babies for two weeks in an intensive-care unit. Each was subjected to an average of 14 painful procedures daily, including needle pricks, catheters inserted in veins and tubes stuck down the nose and throat, but only a third of babies got appropriate pain treatment...
...seem a bit critical to cite a power-play unit that has converted three times in its last three games as the primary culprit in the Harvard’s 3-0 loss to Clarkson, but Harvard’s inability to capitalize on the man advantage was—along with the stellar play of Golden Knights’ netminder Dustin Traylen—the primary reason that the Crimson had only a two-point weekend...