Boston Business articles

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Bargaining chips. (Start Up) (column)
January 1, 1991... Bargaining Chips Despite global turmoil, Dan Burnstein sees happy days ahead. Call him an optimist. Burnstein believes there's a growing recognition that armies and nuclear arsenals are not the best means to settle disputes, that people are beginning to realize talking is more...

Subject to abuse. (Diversions) (column)
January 1, 1991... SUBJECT TO ABUSE VICTOR WAS A HARDWORKING investment banker. He spent 80 hours a week at the office. At age 30, he made partner. But he had a problem: cocaine. Victor secretly checked himself into a 28-day rehab clinic. After his release, he thought he was cured. A short time later, he...

Signs of the times. (Institutions) (column)
January 1, 1991... SIGNS OF THE TIMES JOHN BREAULT CLIMBS A set of creaky stairs early one morning and enters a studio that overlooks the Charles River, Boston Harbor, the financial district, and a web of freeways. This atelier, however, has no windows, no walls, no ceiling. It's the rooftop of a decrepit...

Virtual reality. (M.I.T.'s media lab)
January 1, 1991... Virtual Reality It was nearly six o'clock in the evening, and the Japanese fellow sitting next to me in Kresge Auditorium was fast asleep. We were helping to celebrate the fifth birthday of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's dazzling research center, the Media Laboratory, whose...

Where eagles dare. (the Grey Eagles of Data General) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1991... WHERE EAGLES DARE Never mind that one attendee of the Grey Eagles' reunion party remarked that he was "pleasantly surprised that there wasn't a food fight." Never mind that this October gathering of high-tech cowboys came in pinstripes, wing tips and, for the most part, smooth corporate...