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Martin Shell, vice president for university development at Stanford, told BusinessWeek yesterday that Stanford’s high level of donations was the result of strong relationships between the university and its alumni community...
...computer, was Pajcin's aunt; he traded stocks in her name and in the name of an exotic dancer he was dating to escape scrutiny. In one ploy to glean inside information, Pajcin and an accomplice, former Goldman colleague Eugene Plotkin, hired workers in the Wisconsin printing plant where BusinessWeek was published to filch copies of the magazine straight from the press to discover which companies would be mentioned. Plotkin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Pajcin served two years before being released, and promptly disappeared - possibly leaving the country. Once he's tracked down...
...union, Keilin and Bloom orchestrated a buyout in which United employees, through their unions, bought a 55 percent stake in the company. The results were staggeringly positive. Worker grievances plummeted while the firm’s productivity and profit margins soared. Previous skeptics appeared to be swayed. BusinessWeek devoted a cover story to the success of worker ownership, including praise from sources as unlikely as a Merrill Lynch analyst and an executive at a rival airline...
Michelle, all through this year, you kept your job writing for BusinessWeek. How did you manage to keep up that fast-paced lifestyle, and shift back and forth? Michelle: It was like two alternative realities that I would have on the same day. But they were really complementary...
...Michelle: BusinessWeek was my fast life, where I got my weekly adrenaline rush, doing this work I really love and really believe in, which is a huge part of having a happy life. And then I would go home, where the screens were off and it was very quiet and it was just my family. I was living in the moment then...