Boston Business articles from August 1990

Boston Business archives from August 1990

Open to interpretation. (Wordnet) (Start Up)
August 1, 1990... Open to Interpretation With hooked rugs hanging on the oak paneling and a few pieces of discount office furniture scattered about, the windowless basement of Lee Chadeayne's Acton home suggests the lair of a serious hamradio operator, or...

Smoke rings eternal; for years, Leavitt & Peirce has lent a touch of class to the evil weed. (Harvard Square tobacconists) (Institutions)
August 1, 1990... SMOKE RINGS ETERNAL IT'S THE SMELL. A MALE smell. A smell of ages gone by, the accumulated aroma of 107 years of sophomores and tobacco, cured, aged and unsmoked (isn't every Harvard alumnus just an aged, if not necessarily cured,...

Crimson & clover. (Walter Cabot and Harvard's endowment fund)
August 1, 1990... Crimson & Clover The world is divided into two kinds of people - those who went to Harvard and those who did not. Such distinctions are everything to the Harvardian mind, which is a distinctly active heap of gray pudding. It is forever...

No Land in sight. (Polaroid Corp.) (company profile)
August 1, 1990... No Land in Sight Ed Land would have hated the 1990 Polaroid annual meeting. Held this May at Wellesley College's elegant Alumnae Hall, the yearly rite did its best to anesthetize an audience of about 1000. From the bland introductory speech...

Field of dreams. (Cape Cod development that failed)
August 1, 1990... Field of Dreams Somewhere in the middle of nowhere on Cape Cod is Summit Lane, a barren, black-topped cul-de-sac that was to be the apex of the dream. It's summer, and the sun is shining. A small bird sings. There is a rustling and the...

Our fishbowl and welcome to it; an underwater civilization with an economy based on celebrity and Elvis as its deity? Hey, it could happen.
August 1, 1990... OUR FISHBOWL and Welcome to It There is a secret civilization off the coast of Massachusetts, many miles below the ocean surface, that is covered with a dome and entirely self-sustaining. This utopian society operates under a brilliant new...

Life in the fax lane. (includes additional article on electronic gadgets for the busy executive) (Special Report: The Workplace)
August 1, 1990... Life in the Fax Lane In the fast lanes of modern business - those once-orderly, now-frenzied avenues of trade - hard-driving executives are forever trying to out-motor the competition, to speed ahead and stake out a little open asphalt on...

A brand new hue; executive makeovers: color your way to the top. (Diversions)
August 1, 1990... A BRAND NEW HUE I HAVE NEVER BEEN BRAzen enough to suspect that any of the success I've enjoyed in business has been attributable exclusively to my appearance. On the other hand, I've never caused terror-stricken executives to run screaming...

A clean well-lighted place; designers strive for a healthier, more productive office. (includes additional articles on William Lam, office lighting specialist and on ergonomic chairs) (Special Report: The Workplace)
August 1, 1990... A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE From the cluttered sprawl of trader desks in the film Wall Street to the secretarial flotilla design in Working Girl, we've watched characters try to fight to the top through ugly-looking, chaotic, even smothering...

Kitsch catch. (lunch boxes as collectibles) (The Best at the Close) (column)
August 1, 1990... Kitsch Catch Five years ago, Cambridge sculptor Scott Bruce picked up a 1963 Jetsons lunch box for 25 cents at a thrift store. Now the same lunch pail sells for a stellar $2000. The '54 Superman, '61 Hometown Airport and '74 Underdog pails...