A model for success
Professor of Anthropology Bernard Wong provided an economic analysis
of San Francisco's Chinatown in an interview with a major Korean magazine,
Chosun Monthly, published in September. The article featured the South
Korean city of Incheon, which is struggling to integrate its Chinatown
into the city's economy. Professor Wong pointed to the historical,
ecological, demographic, economical, political and legal factors that
have shaped San Francisco's Chinatown and its ethnic and tourist economies.
Living photos
Professor of Journalism Ken Kobre was interviewed in the Nov. 8 Investor’s
Business Daily about world-renowned photojournalist W. Eugene Smith,
whom Kobre has interviewed. Kobre commented on Smith's photo "Tomoko
Uemura in Her Bath" which depicts a child severely deformed by mercury-infested
Minamata Bay. "Instead of showing just one damaged child, through
this picture you understand why the child was damaged." Kobre recalls
meeting Smith shortly before he died at age 59: "He wore black shoes,
black socks, black pants and a black T-shirt. His hair was snow white," Kobre
said. "He looked like one of his own high-contrast black and white
photos."
Marrying the enemy
In a Nov. 12 Washington Post article on the sales implications from large-scale
business mergers, Assistant Professor of Management Mitchell
Marks offered his insights about competing companies who
tie the knot. Noting that most corporate marriages involve rivals,
Marks said, “Close
to 75 percent of mergers fail to achieve their financial or strategic
objective.”
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