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...signing an exploratory multiyear licensing deal with the $120 million company Palomar Medical Technologies to develop, test and commercialize light-based aesthetic devices that can treat wrinkles, cellulite and acne. "We have the potential to penetrate a good part of that market," says Palomar's chief financial officer, Paul Weiner--but so far no commercial product...
More and more, the candidate turns out to be a woman, under 40 or both. Even more often, the ideal choice is an immigrant to the U.S. who can take back to the country of her birth the skills and experience honed in her adopted land. Rebecca Weiner, a China consultant who has lived in the country on and off since 1985, says she has seen an evolution of expats there from the 1980s, when corporations sent anyone who stuck his hand up, to the booming 1990s, when they sent over any heavy hitter, regardless of adaptability, to today, when...
Created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, the drama (debuting July 19) is set just after the creation of the revolutionary "Think Small" Volkswagen ad campaign, a time widely considered to be Madison Avenue's golden age. "Admen were the rock stars of that era," Weiner says. "They had creative jobs, they earned a lot of money, they drank a lot. There was this real cowboy image...
This period was the cusp of the '50s and '60s, and advertising was tuning into social changes, giving a voice to what we now popularly think of as irony. The chain-smoking corporate hipsters of Madison Avenue, Weiner says, tapped into a dissonance apparent to a generation that had seen the horrors of World War II followed by a postwar façade of peace and innocence. Ads like "Think Small" and Avis' "We Try Harder" don't seem shocking now, but they stood out then because they made virtues of limitations. More broadly, they sold the idea that the surface...
...Dean Kenneth Elmore, the process of registering an overnight guest visit will be quicker. A three-day guest pass will no longer be required except for the eight largest residences. Students will also gain access to dorms between 7 a.m. and 2 a.m. the next day. Rose L. Weiner, a junior at BU who moved off campus her sophomore year, said that the current guest restrictions kept her from studying effectively with fellow students. “You need to check someone in by a certain time,†Weiner said. “Otherwise they have to sign...