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...happened, Bailey had a friend in Texas named Patrick Oxford, managing partner of an old Houston law firm called Bracewell & Patterson. And Oxford had a problem. He could see that the future was bleak for regional law firms in a globalizing economy. Expanding the firm, especially into Manhattan, had become a matter of life and death, Oxford later recalled...
...added that he was not concerned about the eatery’s light business during its opening day, attributing it to Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day nor’easter. Bernstein said the restaurant will work to become a “partner in the neighborhood” by donating a portion of its earnings to the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service, a local non-profit which provides adoption, foster-care, and counseling services to needy families. He added that the restaurant also plans to form a long-term relationship with Harvard...
...HDAG also wants Harvard to adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest from companies meeting very specific criteria. Today’s globalized and interconnected world, however, makes indirect investments a thorny issue. Firms invest in other firms, partner with other firms, and hold complex financial instruments that give them partial claims to ownership of yet other firms. Add to this the dynamic and quickly-changing nature of today’s business environment, and it becomes almost impossible for an institutional investor of Harvard’s size to completely...
...late 2004, when management guru Tom Peters cast off the consulting and training company that bore his name, the folks left behind were pretty scared. Yet the partners of the renamed Bluepoint Leadership Development say that they are better managed without the world-famous management consultant and author of In Search of Excellence and Re-imagine! than with him: higher revenues, doubled profitability, loyalty from old clients and a roster of new ones like Starbucks, DHL and GE. "Fortune called Tom Peters the Ur-guru of management," says Bluepoint partner David Parks, "but apparently not when it comes to running...
...doofus but that Ricky Bobby is oblivious to everything around him. "It's easy to take a shot at people, set yourself aside from it and say, Hey, look how stupid everybody is," says Will Arnett, the former Arrested Development star who plays Poehler's brother and evil skating partner in Blades of Glory. (He's also her real-life husband.) "Certainly there've been movies the last couple of years that have done that, but Will doesn't. He's not litist in any way, shape or form." As lame as it sounds, Arnett believes being kind...