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From its founding in 1986, the Tom Peters Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, waxed and waned with business cycles, with Peters promoting the company at varying levels of intensity. After the dotcom bust, Peters' high-risk, big-payoff consulting projects, which preached blowing up business-as usual, were less in vogue. The bulk of the company's business was in its safer leadership training, mostly using non-Peters material that emphasized behavioral assessment and leadership preparation. In 2004, Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati...
...wave of defaults on "subprime," or high-risk, home mortgages has not only rocked the Dow; it also threatens to ripple through the economy. Here...
Many lenders resell their high-risk mortgages to investment banks. If defaults rise, the lenders are often forced to buy back the bad loans, which hurts earnings and stock prices...
...part to the debut of Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) party grants. Ranging from $50 to $100, the grants funded food and nonalcoholic beverages to be served at social events. The idea is to give students more options at parties and encourage safe drinking during “high-risk times,” according to DAPA Talya J. Brettler ’08. At least one DAPA-sponsored party this weekend was funded by the Undergraduate Council (UC), as well. Unlike the UC party grants, however, the DAPA grants do not stipulate that the parties need...
...alcohol-filled tailgate, a trend that the College tried to change this year. Travia said the increased policing efforts were successful. “In the past, there was no way to distinguish underage students,” he said. But Harvard’s efforts extend past the high-risk environment of the annual Yale showdown. A little over a year ago, Travia created Harvard’s Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) program. And DAPA’s new party-grant system, which begins this weekend, funds food and non-alcoholic beverages at parties. The system helps...