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...COMPANY: Ctrip SECTOR: Travel REVENUE IN 2008: $217 million THE LESSON: Don't take on everything at once...
...Chinese companies sometimes start out as carbon copies of successful overseas ventures. But replication doesn't happen overnight. Take Ctrip, the market leader for online travel reservations. The company, founded in 1999, initially hoped to be an instant Chinese version of Expedia but soon realized that rushing to provide the same features of the U.S. travel website - which offers package tours, hotel reservations, plane tickets, rental-car reservations and cruises, among other services - was a reckless, if not impossible, task. Instead, it focused on mastering one service before adding another. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
While finals are still months away, the Registrar's Office has posted the exam schedule on their Web site. If you need to make travel plans or are curious about when that Ec 10 exam is, check out the schedule here...
...Harvard wins, it will then either travel to No. 8 Cornell or come home to play Rensselaer in the ECAC Championship game Sunday night. Harvard did not win any of the games it played against the Big Red and the Engineers during the regular season...
...task of helping the victims of the earthquake was going to be enormous. As the President herself told TIME, no one in command really knew how bad the situation was outside of Santiago because of the breakdown in communications and what turned out to be inaccurate information. On Wednesday, travel to and communications with Concepción, the big city closest to the 8.8-magnitude quake's epicenter, was still difficult. Lewis arrived there early Monday evening with the Chilean military to find a city that appeared to be completely abandoned. "It was like a ghost town," he tells TIME...