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Harvard's Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi was named one of this year's Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholars...
Benzan, who went to high school in Cambridge and recently graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., said his "vision" of the community made him the strongest candidate on the party slate...
...instant Asia's economies cracked last year, Howard Greenspan feared the worst for his bank. As a longtime customer and investor in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the second largest in Canada, Greenspan knew it was a big player in the Asian derivatives market. The bank would suffer from the Asian fallout, but how much? At the company's annual meeting in January, Greenspan, a Toronto management consultant, asked CIBC chairman Al Flood about the bank's derivatives. But Flood cut him off, and a subsequent attempt was unavailing. So Greenspan took CIBC to court a month later...
With Indonesia aflame, a virtual depression in Japan and both Malaysia and Thailand still struggling, the Asian economic crisis is far from over. In the worst- case scenario, one or more large derivatives defaults from Asia and sets off a chain reaction of failures. In the meantime, Howard Greenspan still awaits information to see if his bank will suffer from the fallout. "In the final analysis, this has little to do with Asia," says Greenspan. "It's derivatives themselves. We are into the age of global financial risk...
Reaching the far corners of today's global market means not always staying in four-star hotels. Consider the experience of Howard Kaplan, 36, executive vice president in charge of technology-transfer projects for TransChem Finance & Trade, a Delaware-based firm that works primarily with developing and former communist countries to make their agricultural and energy systems more efficient. Local contacts always strive to give him a taste of their culture. He has eaten (by hand) a spit-roasted cow in Romania, hunted for boar in Tatarstan and ridden a camel through Mongolia. Getting the local touch often means bedding...