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Today's Dose of The Executive Almanac:
Whatever Happened to Borden
Founded 1857
"Once the world's largest food company--Gail Borden invented condensed milk, and the company was the first to put fresh milk into bottles--Borden lost its way in the 1980s, selling and buying companies at a rapid clip. Meanwhile, it was making more money in chemicals than in foods. In 1995 the investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts acquired Borden in a leveraged buyout and then sold off the food business, including Cracker Jack, Creamette and Prince pastas, Snow's Clam Chowder, Realemon, and Wise's Cheez Doodles.
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The publicity team at Harvard Business School Press is using del. icio. us to store and distribute PR hits they get for their books.
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Mea culpa: I am one of the pod people, an invadee of the body snatchers, when it comes to the mass hysteria surrounding the iPhone. To me this is not a story about an insanely great $500 cel phone cum music player; Jobs’s landmark keynote signaled an event of huge business consequence.
More than a shiny new toy, more than the buzziest product of the decade, more than a business tool with ginormous cultural cachet; this iPhone blows me away in the following ways.
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Today's dose from The Executive Almanac:
"Teach Your Son to Play First Base
Here are the average annual salaries of baseball players in 2004, according to position played
First base: $6. 8 million
Outfield: $4. 5 million
Third base: $3.
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