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While some are attracted by the promise of an guaranteed Ivy date, others view education filters as unfair...
...success and growth of women-owned businesses is the focus on client satisfaction. "It's not that they don't care about financial performance, because they do," she says. "But focusing on customer satisfaction is a big driver." Stephanie Allen, whose Dream Dinners company grew out of a monthly date with a friend to cook and freeze nutritious meals for their families, says she receives 400 requests a week for a franchise application. She's sold only 76 because, she explains, she weeds out people who are in it just for the money: "We want people who are committed...
...result of the Kyoto process to date has been that U.S. stubbornness has cost the world seven precious years during which the energies of the climate community were diverted towards saving an agreement that had assumed a perverse political salience but was never climatically meaningful. Now that the political battle is over, we need to ensure that the protracted politicking of the last seven years does not permanently scar the future direction of global climate policy. In particular, there are three important ways in which future climate policy initiatives will have to move away from the shadow of the Kyoto...
...President Vladimir Putin came to power, the Russian economy has staged a dramatic comeback after its near collapse in 1998. But along with red tape and corruption, companies face political and government meddling, primarily in the form of a highly unpredictable tax-enforcement policy. The most battered victim to date is Yukos, the former Russian oil giant that is currently in its death throes after being hit with multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that its erstwhile owners say were part of a Kremlin campaign against them. A Moscow court is expected to deliver its verdict this week on Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
...mobile-phone network. After just six months, his company, Orascom Telecom, already has more than half a million subscribers there, earning it $95 million before taxes and interest. Like Branson, Sawiris is a music lover - he calls himself a "party animal" - and has a taste for risky ventures. To date, six Orascom engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in Iraq and two of its sites have been shot at. "I didn't sleep for a month" after the kidnappings, Sawiris told Time, though he helped secure the hostages' eventual release. But in business terms, it has been worth...