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'A beacon for other businesses': Berkeley alum Daryl Ross takes budget organic mainstream
 Daryl
Ross owns five eateries on or around the Berkeley campus,
all extremely popular for their combination of low-key
ambience and carefully prepared, mostly organic food
at budget prices. A philosophy major at Berkeley, he
has adopted as his guiding ethos that "quality,
organic, sustainable ingredients not only taste better,
they're better for the world all around."More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, 24 Aug. 2005)
Berkeley bioethicist David Winickoff tackles the really big questions
 Biotechnology
is the Wild West of the 21st century. There's
money to be made in them thar cells, and there are
precious few sheriffs policing this frontier. David
Winickoff, an assistant professor of bioethics and
society, explains how bioethicists are scholars, not
lawmakers — and why we desperately
need both.
More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, 6 July 2005)
Trader
Joe's: Billions from nuts, veggies, and Two-Buck Chuck
(Corporate
Board Member, May/June 2004)
Mixed
emotions: The multiracial student experience
 Nearly
a quarter of UC Berkeley students identify
themselves as multiracial. Four "mixed" Berkeley students share their experiences with the question "What
are you?", which forces them to fend off racial stereotypes as they
try to answer the same, more fundamental, question as their monoracial
classmates: "Who am I?"
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(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, 7 March 2005)
In Conversation
With: New Yorker movie critic Anthony Lane
 Anthony
Lane is Mozart to David Denby's Salieri. His movie
reviews evoke the breathless joys of rollercoaster
rides or Mark Morris's choreography. They shamelessly
celebrate the idea that movies - and movie reviews
- are, first and foremost, entertainment. Sometimes
that entertainment turns out to be moving, or educational,
or even inspiring,
but Lane never forgets that a) his job is not solely
to motivate or dissuade readers from coughing up $9
and b) his job is among the most fun to be had in
journalism.
More >
(CentralBooking.com, August 2002)
Theater
major Autumn Zangrilli
to audition for Miss California
 On
Wednesday, June 25, UC
Berkeley theater/performance
studies major Autumn Zangrilli
will be in Fresno trying
out for her most difficult
role yet: Miss California.
The part comes with a
hefty paycheck - $10,000
in scholarship money.
Zangrilli, Miss Contra
Costa County 2003, is
on her own financially,
and has put herself through
her first four years at
UC Berkeley with a combination
of scholarships and part-time
work. Now that she's
decided to continue her
studies for a fifth year,
she's on the hunt
for a way to pay for it.
More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
19 June 2003)
Vik
Pineda shines a personal
spotlight on treatment
of disabled people
 Victor
"Vik" Pineda,
a UC Berkeley student
in the city and regional
planning master's
program, is changing the
way the world views people
with disabilities. Pineda
has spinal muscular atrophy,
a form of muscular dystrophy,
and as a Cal undergrad
was elected an ASUC senator,
completed a double major,
and made an award-winning
documentary short film
about life in Cuba for
the disabled. More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
12 June 2003)
A
Company Tom Clancy Would
Love
"Those
who contribute to the
company should own it,
and ownership should be
commensurate with employee
contribution and performance
as much as feasible."
Take a guess—this
motto a) Hangs over the
entrance of an organic-grocery
co-op; b) Serves as an
epigram for an anti-globalization
website; c) Is the founding
philosophy of a giant
defense contractor. Strange
as it might seem, the
answer is c, and the philosophy
belongs to Science Applications
International Corp. (SAIC),
a company founded in 1969
by J. Robert Beyster,
formerly a nuclear physicist
with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
More
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(Corporate
Board Member, Sept/Oct
2002)
Being
Larry Ellison
 The
sun is heating up the
tarmac of San Carlos Airport,
a small airport that's
home to almost 500 private
planes belonging to Silicon
Valley's busiest and richest.
Underneath a black awning
erected by the photographer,
Larry Ellison looks with
amusement at the red velvet
armchair awaiting him.
Then he notices the mammoth
apparatus pointed at the
scene: a 20-by-24-inch
Polaroid camera, one of
only three in the United
States and so big it requires
its own van for transport.
More
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(Business
Life, July/Aug 2001)
Local
hero
 "Furniture
and riots—that's
why I’m here,"
says Jay Tindall, cofounder
and CEO of Orientation.com.
He’s only 99 percent
kidding: the search for
an Indonesian hardwood
bed is high on his agenda.
The trouble is, with only
a few days budgeted for
Jakarta, he and the rest
of the Orientation.com
delegation are far too
busy meeting bankers,
newspaper reporters, ISP
executives, and other
potential partners to
shop. More
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(Red
Herring, October 2000)
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Life
is what happens when you take time off before grad
school - just ask Anat Shenker, Public Policy
'05
 Among
Berkeley's graduate students are quite a few who took
a detour along the way, and are glad they did. Anat
Shenker, 27, is one of them. And she's more than happy
to explain how a political science major ended up holding
grant-writing workshops in Honduras for the Peace Corps,
marrying a villager from the cloud forest, and thinking
she had useful advice to offer Warren Beatty.More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, May 31, 2005)
From
jarhead to bowl maker: Graduate student Ehren Tool's
art of war
 Ehren
Tool, a graduate student in art practice,
draws on his five years as a U.S. Marine and Gulf War
veteran to make ceramic bowls and large-scale installations
designed to bring the idea of war closer to home. He
has given away more than 4,000 military-themed
cups, including 50 to U.S. presidents and other officials. More
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(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, 26 October 2004)
Heard
"Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho,
It’s Off to Work
We Go" lately?
 Being
an authority on what makes
a company attractive to
employees can be burdensome
when you’re a boss
yourself. Just ask Robert
Levering, co-founder of
the Great Place to Work
Institute, a research
and management consulting
firm, and one of the guys
who compile Fortune’s
annual ranking of the
100 best American companies
to work for. The institute,
which is headquartered
in San Francisco - its
courtyard, plants, and
hand-hewn woodwork point
to the former owner’s
Zen leanings - "is
a terrible place to work,"
sighs Levering, 59.
More
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(Corporate
Board Member, May/June
2003)
Alum
Jigar Mehta keeps his
eye on the viewfinder
all the way from UC Berkeley
to the Sundance Film Festival
While
Jigar Mehta was studying
mechanical engineering
at UC Berkeley, he was
also learning the filmmaking
business. After interning
at Channel Five's
Evening Magazine, he and
two classmates shot and
produced a video that
introduces new students
to life on the Berkeley
campus. Then Mehta got
the call of his life:
did he want to go on a
road trip as a documentary
cameraman? The answer
was yes, and the trip
led him all the way to
the awards stage at the
Sundance Film Festival.
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
19 February 2003)
Will
the Rossi posse go after
your company next?
 Shareholder-activist
Emil Rossi and his two
sons own a hardware store
in Boonville, Calif.,
and one computer between
them. Yet they have won
a series of proxy fights
with big corporations
over the past 20 years.
More and more fellow shareholders
are picking up pitchforks
and falling in behind
them. More
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(Corporate
Board Member, Jan/Feb
2003)
Before
We Adjourn: A 23-Year-Old
director’s perspective
At
a time when most twenty-somethings
were still in denial that
the dot-com casino had
gone bust, Marc McConnell
was starting near the
top of his family’s
brick-and-mortar businesses.
In May 2001, just two
weeks after graduating
from Cornell University’s
School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, he became
president of privately
held Babcock Co. in Bath,
New York. Two months later
he got an additional job—outside
board member at Art’s-Way
Manufacturing Co., traded
on the Nasdaq SmallCap
Market—thereby becoming
the youngest of all the
37,230 directors of U.S.
public companies in Corporate
Board Member’s database.
More
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(Corporate
Board Member, Nov/Dec
2002)
Inside
Google: A Nerd Utopia
That Works
 As
one of the best-known
brands on the Internet,
Google could easily have
gone public by now. It
has significant earnings
from diverse revenue sources,
an irreproachable management
team, and, most important,
the strongest search-engine
technology available.
The fact that it remains
private reveals the conservative
heart of this legendarily
zany outfit. Despite the
lava lamps, scooters,
and colorful exercise
balls, the company has
no intention of being
tarred with Wall Street’s
dot-com brush. More
>
(Corporate
Board Member, May/June
2002)
Ross
Perot is back in business
 Perot
Systems, the systems-integration company that billionaire
Ross Perot founded in 1988, has been booming since
it went public in February. Red Herring recently spoke
with Mr. Perot and Mark Teflian, TimeO’s president.
With apologies to Mr. Teflian, what we really wanted
to hear—since politics wasn’t on the menu—was
the very colorful ex-presidential candidate’s
views on the current state of technology in general. More >
(Red
Herring, January 2000) |
