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What a difference a few months make. Most of the Web's early users were men, but by last summer the gender ratio was nearing fifty-fifty. This Great Online Makeover has left entrepreneurs and the v.c. barons who fund them asking one primal question: What do wired women want...
...little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks, up from just four in September) on hand to answer customer calls and reply to e-mail inquiries. "Everybody who's on the payroll took a turn," he says...
...standards of physical beauty are cultural constructs. I wish they were, but I doubt it. Research indicates surprising regularities in what various cultures consider an attractive face or a well-formed figure. Many of these standards seem to have a biological basis (for instance, the waist-to-hip ratio that men consider most attractive in women is the one that is most likely to ensure the successful delivery of a baby). And why did the women of ancient Greece become so enchanted by the blonde hair of the barbarian captives? Why are "Baywatch" and Titanic so vastly popular in Iran...
Knowles says that in the coming years, the goal of the Faculty is to decrease the student-faculty ratio and improve relations between professors and students...
After conducting a series of surveys, interviews and meetings at HLS, the McKinsey firm issued a report suggesting a series of improvements, mainly in the areas of class size, grading policy and the student-to-faculty ratio...