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Summers told professors Monday that although he would not discourage faculty from independently filing suit, Harvard would not now launch its own legal challenge, according to University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano, who also attended the meeting...
...Hole in the Wall Gang camps for kids with serious diseases. But its humble beginnings offer lessons for any entrepreneur. Like many rookie proprietors, actor Paul Newman and his sidekick, the writer A.E. Hotchner, had a good product (the actor's homemade salad dressing) but lacked the experience to launch it in the hotly contested world of packaged goods. In this excerpt from the forthcoming Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; $22.95), the two recount their experiences in trying to get a business off the ground...
...Mark's launch is just the latest stroke in Avon's corporate makeover. Under the leadership of CEO Andrea Jung, who took over in 1999, the once dated Avon is "now an accepted fashion brand," says Steele. Among Jung's moves: introducing dozens of new products, including an antiaging skin-care line; starting an e-commerce website; and aggressively expanding overseas, especially in such emerging markets as Eastern Europe and Latin America. "A mother has to be healthy to birth a child," Jung says. "Our parent company has never been in better shape...
...largest marketing company in America. On the table in front of us we have a bottle, once filled with Chianti, now containing an olive oil and vinegar salad dressing, which is the object of this meeting. "You gentlemen have come to the right place," the president tells us. "We launch new products for some of the biggest brands in America--Libby's, Heinz, Del Monte, Campbell's, Kraft--so we can give you an exponential trajectory on the welter of details that have to be accomplished to launch your salad dressing. It's essential to know in advance...
...between three hundred and four hundred thousand dollars. Now once you're ready to roll out the product, you'll have to learn how to attend to distribution, promotion and advertising, public relations--our experience is with the big guys, and they figure to spend a million dollars to launch a new product--that's the general rule the first year...