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...spend money on new cars. GM's executives aren't entirely off base in thinking that pent-up demand is building, because it is. "Assuming general economic recovery, in the developed markets we will see maybe 95% of what it had been," says John Paul MacDuffie, an associate professor of management and co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. U.S. auto and light-truck sales topped 16 million for eight years and reached nearly 17 million in 2004 and 2005. Those numbers have slumped dramatically, but the current downturn...
...Wall Street firms make money when people are in pain," says Frank Partnoy, who once traded credit-derivative contracts at Morgan Stanley and is now a law professor at the University of San Diego. "I don't know if that is what is happening, but if the question is whether banks would converge on a dying body - the answer is, Absolutely...
...call to prayer? What should a mosque attended by Muslims from different parts of the world look like? The boldest of the new mosques try to answer such questions but are also powerful statements of intent. "Islam wants to proclaim itself," says Hasan-Uddin Khan, an architecture professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. "These new mosques are saying, 'We are here, and we want it to be known that we are here...
...wireless reading device, Kindle. She also said that because many of HUP’s books are targeted at a specific subset of academia, the Press probably has not been missing out on reaching much of its audience due to a lack of digital availability. Harvard School of Education Professor Daniel M. Koretz, who recently published a book with HUP about standardized testing, said that he has experienced decreased sales of his book, but attributed the falloff to lower demand for books in general. “What has happened to book sales in the past few months is independent...
...importance of sacred traditions and thought within the modern world was the topic of discussion during a well-attended open forum and question and answer session with noted professors Charles Taylor, Michael J. Sandel, and Homi Bhabha last night. More than 120 people crowded into the Barker Center’s Thompson room to attend the event organized by the Harvard University Press’ Executive Editor for the Humanities Lindsay E. Waters and professors Bhabha and Steven Biel, who are also the directors of the Humanities center at Harvard. An Emeritus professor of political philosophy at McGill University...