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...just two problems. Because everything about Plastic Logic's device is new, right down to a fab plant built in Dresden that's churning out parts, the first model won't reach consumers until 2010. And version 1.0 will render text in standard E-Ink black on gray. CEO Richard Archuleta says a color screen that can handle true black and white (not to mention the gamut of colors needed to reproduce the page you see now) won't be ready before 2011. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...President Obama recognized the real risk here: some very good bankers might not want to work for maximum-wage pay and could bolt their TARP-constrained companies. Why, for instance, would JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, perhaps the most astute operator in banking, want to labor for a measly 500 large to run a company with $2.2 trillion in assets...
...room during the talk’s question and answer period and unfurled a banner stating “clean coal is a dirty lie” while listing grievances with coal as an energy source. As two of the activists held the banner, another questioned the speaker, CEO of Arch Coal Steven F. Leer, on the viability of coal as a solution to climate change. When moderator Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and director of Harvard University Center for the Environment, asked the objector his name, the man replied, “coal kills...
...could be determined by just how bad the region's economies get. "We've already seen the rescue of finance sectors bleed into industries like automakers and construction at an extremely rapid rate - one that's accelerating further as frightened publics demand protection from national leaders," says Karel Lannoo, CEO of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "This is undermining something the world learned in the past two decades, and a lesson the European Union learned in particular: everyone benefits when you decrease the boundaries and divisions in international markets and trade to a minimum, and allow things...
...other way. Unless Harvard keeps pace, its top-caliber financial professionals might seek other jobs, leaving positions to be filled by less talented individuals. This same class of alums protested the $107.5 million HMC paid its top officials in 2003. When Harvard proceeded to sharply reduce HMC executive compensation, CEO Jack R. Meyer left the company along with many other successful money managers. It should not be forgotten that, in Meyer’s 15-year tenure as CEO, the endowment grew from $4.8 billion to $25.9 billion. The experts needed to run HMC are entitled to the salaries...