It would look like the scene outside of the mall in George A Romero's Dawn of the Dead: thousands of starched, dazed yuppies converging on the corporate grounds, clawing at the entrance, growling for the opportunity to just put in one more 70-hour work week.
These days, Mr. Wharrie jumps into his mini-van every morning with his border collie, Chevy, and heads to a growing list of clients to provide a service that has become almost as essential in suburbia as landscaping, lawn mowing or trash hauling: Mr. Wharrie and his dog chase Canada geese from municipal parks, schoolyards and corporate grounds.
The market for high-yield ("junk") corporate debt ground to a halt in December.
Sources around and familiar with the Redmond area — Microsoft's corporate stomping ground — that I spoke to generally indicated that morale was largely intact on the company's main campus.
Even non-tech firms have jumped on the bandwagon: in May Fielmann, a big German optics retailer, launched an incubator.Many of these corporate breeding grounds for start-ups are in Berlin.
Robertson, himself mooted as a possible chairman, along with his former Goldman Sachs colleague John Thornton, has already been lobbied by shareholders who do not want Geoghegan to fill the chairman's seat on corporate governance grounds.
In our schools, competition for access to elite preschools, for grades, for social status, in sports, over positions of leadership, and for admission to exclusive colleges transforms one of our most basic institutions for fostering community, ethics and learning into competitive, individualistic corporate training-grounds.
On Tuesday, the Loews corporate jet was grounded in Denver.
Since taking over the company in August, Mr. Flannery has promised big changes, shaken up his leadership team and grounded corporate planes.
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