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Conventional economic wisdom holds that the free market alone should determine which companies and industries succeed and fail. A company??€™s decisions, whether they are wise or poor, are its own to make, and it should have to face consequences of those decisions. The American auto industry giants—namely, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—have made a number of poor, if not self-destructive, choices in the past decade, culminating in their current liquidity crisis. While a healthy economy would survive the bankruptcy of a Big Three auto giant, any such failure could plunge...
...that the company has been examining its usage of the Brattle Street building for years. Building owner and Harvard professor emeritus Bill J. Poorvu and Harvard Square Business Association executive director Denise A. Jillson both expressed similar thoughts, saying the closing was likely driven by changes in the company??€™s merchandising strategy...
...students at the Office of International Programs yesterday. When Meaker asked for their thoughts on IKEA, the students—who were also snacking on Danish pastries provided by the OIP—listed the simple design and quality of materials as distinctive characteristics of the Swedish furniture company??€™s products. Meaker, who is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark, drew connections between these observable qualities of IKEA furniture and the core tenets that Scandanavian architects emphasize in urban planning and design. “There is a concern for quality, simplicity, the elegant solution and detail...
...Harvard Management Company??€”the group charged with investing the University’s $36.9 billion endowment—is planning to unload $1.5 billion of its riskiest assets, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal’s article followed similar reports from the trade publication Private Equity Week, which said the company would sell $1 billion of its private equity portfolio. A $1.5 billion sale of its private equity holdings—nearly a third of Harvard’s investments in that sector—would mark one of the largest-ever sales...
George T. Ferrer, an Addidas marketing associate for the company??€™s Square branch, said that he wanted to use the event to showcase the store’s merchandise...