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...have to up the ante--Krzyzewski commands up to $100,000 a speech, and his name even graces an academic arm, the Fuqua/ Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics at Duke. All this for a guy who teaches men in shorts how to toss balls through a hoop. "He talks about character issues that are soulful," says Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, whose managing directors--"a pretty cynical group," he notes-- raved about a recent Krzyzewski talk. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders...
...tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen chicken and ribs and cigarettes to his neighbors, who called him a hero. "I was in a building with no food, no water for five nights," Fuqua's neighbor Mohammed Ally, 70, told TIME...
Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management followed HBS’s lead and rejected the applicants who had heeded the hacker’s instructions, while Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) announced that they would individually examine the applications of each of the accused students...
...exactly a straight one. Tractor Supply Co. was founded in 1938 as a haven for farmers who needed tractor parts (hence the catchy name). Over the next four decades, TSC strayed off the farm and started peddling everything from sporting goods to Crock-Pots. In the 1970s, conglomerate Fuqua Industries acquired TSC, further diluting the retailer's focus. Scarlett participated in a leveraged buyout in 1982 and floated TSC as a public company in 1994; he owns 14.5% of the common stock, worth about $233 million today...
James A. Gray, a spokesman for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, said that one applicant at the school had tried to hack into the system. Gray said the action would be a “black mark” on the applicant’s record...