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Diversity. As a global company, we have to represent the diversity of our customer base. You know, we should have the best Chinese leader leading [Siemens] China with the best Chinese team. We should have the best Indian leader running [Siemens] India with the best Indian team. We are very fortunate because we did a fantastic job in the U.S. In the U.S., we have the breadth and depth and connectivity that we need to have to really be an American company...
...between Harvard and six universities throughout Asia, and I was more than determined to turn HCAP into a culinary pilgrimage. I asked everyone who had lived in or visited Japan to list the best restaurants in the city—a layover in Osaka or a grandmother at the base of Mount Fuji counted you as an expert enough. I emailed Professor Ted Bestor, author of “Tsukiji”—a 400-page tome on the fish market in Tokyo—and begged him to compile a foodie’s checklist...
...game.” Despite this will to push boundaries, Ma has continued to live in Cambridge ever since he was a student here in the seventies. After graduating, he lived in Leverett House as a resident tutor for three years. “The richness of the knowledge base of this place is so fabulous,” he said, referring to all of Cambridge rather than just Harvard. As happy as Ma said he has been in Cambridge, he has spent much of his life on the road. He said that he has spent 20 of the last...
...remember with affection the unruly passions of youth," he said Monday in Meridian, Miss., where he once helped organize an off-base toga party - the furniture swapped out for mattresses - for his military buddies and some local girls. On Tuesday, he returned to his Virginia high school to announce that his frequent disobedience earned him the nickname "worst rat." (He used to sneak away to hop a bus to Washington, D.C., for the burlesque houses and bars.) On Wednesday morning, he stood outside the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he spoke of his "nocturnal sojourns" beyond those school...
...Ahern managed to combine his political smarts with the common touch of the retail politician, religiously canvassing his political base in Dublin's Northside, probably because he enjoyed drifting from pub to shop, chewing over the national budget or gassing about Manchester United, his favorite soccer team. He is known, everywhere, simply as Bertie, appearing to be on first-name terms with the entire Irish public...