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TIMES CURATOR TOI BRINGS YOU A WEEKLY PICK OF STIMULATING IDEAS AND OPINIONS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN OTHER MEDIA, ONLINE AND OFFLINE H alle Berry’s marriage to Olivier Martinez is in trouble and the actress seems on her way to her third divorce. So her ex-husbands took to Twitter to bad-mouth the actress. Her first husband, baseball star David Justice, warned Martinez that he would soon become “the worst guy in histo- ry.” Husband Number 2, R&B singer Eric Benet, agreed, tweeting “My man at @23davidjustice is tweeting some truth dis’ mornin.” For more: thedailybeast.com GANGING UP ON HALLE PRICE FIXING 73 years That’s the amount of time the price of Coca Cola stayed constant – at 5 cents. A deal signed with bottlers allowed them to buy Coke syrup at a fixed price, forever. When bottled Coke sales took off, Coke realized they would lose out on profits, so they advertised the 5 cent price to keep bottled Coke prices steady. A fter Elton John was pranked by a hoax call, the singer, who believed the caller to be Mr Putin, took to Instagram to say he wanted to discuss the rights of gay people in Russia. The singer was surprised to receive a call from the man himself, who apologized to John for the hoax call. “I was very flattered that he reached out to me. I look forward to a further time when I can discuss things with him face to face within the next year. He was very gracious and he spoke good English,” said John. For more: itv.com PUTIN CALLS ELTON T hese days, ageism is taken for grant- ed in the world of business. Young people have more energy. They’re more capable of picking things up, and have no problems spending long hours at the office. By the time a person is 50, if she or he hasn’t made it to the top rungs of the corporate ladder, it can be assumed that it’s the end of the line, a countdown to retirement, or worse, redundancy. But if you’re divorced, 50 can become the new 20, argues Financial Times’ Lucy Kellaway. She was at a dinner with members of a corporate law firm, and noticed that she was the oldest person present. She asked one of her fellow diners where the lawyers in their late 50s and early 60s were. The diner told her that they had all been eased out. “The trouble with the law, he ex- plained, is that it takes its toll on you, and if you’ve been at it for 30 years it is almost impossible to hold on to any sense of ur- gency. By the time you reach your mid- fifties, it is usually time to start thinking about going,” she writes. But there was an exception to this rule. “And that was lawyers in their fifties who had recently been divorced and were start- ing again with mortgages and young chil- dren. They had all the experience of their years — and all the drive of someone 30 years younger. They were propelled by the need to make a vast amount of money but, instead of having a lifetime in which to do it, they had a mere decade. The combina- tion of extreme wisdom and extreme hun- ger made them unbeatable,” she writes. Kellaway examines the conventional wisdom that the stress of an ongoing di- vorce makes employees vulnerable, and finds that it may not always apply. After all, she notes, the one constant about di- vorce is that it makes you poorer. “To comfortable, middle-aged professionals, feeling a little short of funds can be an unwelcome shock, and the effect of it can, in the right circumstances, be agreeably galvanising,” she writes. At More magazine, Mary Lou Quinlan finds that true as well, especially for women. She says that a speedier recovery from divorce is linked to having a career option to fall back on. Quinlan looks at several case studies of women who un- derwent painful divorces and found that hard work – however cliched that may sound – was one of the best ways out of the emotional turmoil that resulted. Ultimately, it comes down to money, especially for those divorcing later in life, says Kellaway. “Almost all the sci- entific studies will tell you that mon- ey doesn’t motivate. Yet when you have just parted company with your nest egg and lost some of the finan- cial security you thought you had, every pay cheque becomes a minor cause of celebration — and the same old, same old work suddenly seems as fresh and full of possibility as it ever did,” she writes. For more: ft.com, more.com CLEAN BREAK: Divorcees tend to work harder At 50, divorce can be good for your career MYTUBE The latest stunt by daredevils Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet is going through the internet like a jet’s afterburner during take off. Rossy and Reffet fly jetpacks and soar and dive around an Emirates A380 Airbus. The whole stunt is an ad for Emir- ates, but it doesn’t make it any less impressive. For more: youtube.com F or a long time, Harvard Business School was seen as a male bas- tion. Just two years ago, The New York Times ran a devastating piece by Jodi Kantor, exposing simmer- ing frustrations felt by female students who’d felt overlooked and undervalued at the school. Kantor also wrote about the efforts of Drew Gilpin, the first female president of Harvard University, and Nitin Nohria, the Dean of Harvard Busi- ness School, to address this issue. “Their correctives included hiring more female faculty; enlisting coaches to work with women reluctant to raise their hands in class; providing professors daily reports about whom they called on (to spotlight subtle gender biases); decreasing the em- phasis on ‘case method,’ a teaching ap- proach that graded students on individ- ual class participation; and ramping up ‘field method,’ which factors in real-life problem solving in groups. In other words, you no longer had to be the loud- est, most aggressive voice in the room to necessarily succeed at HBS,” writes Lau- ren Sherman at Marie Claire. Gilpin’s and Nohria’s efforts came at the right time. A quiet revolution was already taking place at Harvard. In 2008, Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, classmates at HBS, hit upon the idea of renting out designer clothing. They got in touch with New York fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg — they guessed her email ID — and piqued her interest. The two Jennifers met von Furstenberg, and of that meeting was born Rent The Runway, an online service that provides designer dress and accessory rentals. Today, Rent The Runway offers over 50,000 dresses and 10,000 accessories from over 200 designer partners, including Badgley Mischka, Vera Wang, Alexis Bit- tar, Carolina Herrera and Calvin Klein. Rent The Runway isn’t an isolated example. “HBS has churned out some of those (fashion and beauty) industries’ biggest disrupters: Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, founders of the fashion flash-sale pioneer Gilt Groupe; Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, the duo whose monthly beauty-goody sub- scription service, Birchbox, launched an army of copycats; and Katrina Lake, founder of Stitch Fix, an online personal- styling and shopping service that’s been dubbed the ‘Pandora of fashion’,” writes Sherman. In the past eight years, HBS has spawned at least 18 fashion and beau- ty startups, nearly all led by women and targeting women, which have raised an estimated $600 million in aggregate, Sherman notes. They include Vixxenn, a distributor of hair extensions; Tinker Tailor, a design-it-yourself clothing com- pany; Glamsquad, for at-home makeup, hair, and manicure services; and Mink, a 3-D printer for makeup that hopes to ‘irrevocably alter the way women shop for cosmetics.’ It’s still a hard slog. However, proxim- ity to fashion hub New York helps “be- cause women can’t get funded in Silicon Valley,” says Marcela Sapone, founder of a startup called Alfred, an on-demand ‘butler service’ that won the TechCrunch Disrupt startup competition in San Fran- cisco last year. For more: marieclaire.com Is Harvard becoming to fashion what Stanford is to technology? COUTURE RENTAL: Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss got their idea for a high-fashion clothes and accessories rental startup after Hyman’s sister Becky spent more than $2,000 on a dress IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, HBS HAS CHURNED OUT SOME OF THE BIGGEST DISRUPTERS IN THE FASHION AND BEAUTY INDUSTRY, AND ALL THE FOUNDERS HAVE BEEN WOMEN L ast week, Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 had to make an emergency landing after something triggered onboard alarms. The plane was en route from Syd- ney to Kuala Lumpur with more than 2,000 animals — mostly goats and sheep. But the four crew members on the Boeing 747-400 freighter received a smoke indication in a cargo bay, forcing them to come early to land. When they checked the issue in Bali Denpasar 45 minutes later, emergency services found no smoke, according to Avi- ation Herald. They then reported that the smoke indication was identified to be the result of exhaust gases and manure pro- duced by the goats. Singapore Airlines does seem to have trouble with animals. The incident follows another emergency landing by Singapore Airlines in August after one of its aircraft flew into a flock of storks, which tore a hole in its nose. The airline’s officials say that there was no proof that the goats were guilty, and for the media, the goats were just... scapegoats. For more: mirror.co.uk Flatulent goats force cargo aircraft down CARBON EMISSIONS: Running with a full tank of gas SERIOUS WHY SO I f you are a thief whose chosen line of business is snatching mobile phones from women, it’s probably a good idea not to target a world-class athlete. That’s what one unnamed man found out when he tried to grab Serena Wil- liams’ phone and run. “He began to run but I was too fast. (Those sprints came in handy) I was upon him in a flash! In the most menacing yet calm no non- sense voice I could muster I kindly asked him if he ‘accidentally’ took the wrong phone,” she wrote in a widely shared post on Facebook. Needless to say, Wil- liams got her phone back. For more: facebook.com MEN? WHO NEEDS THEM? Serena the superwoman! © JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN J ennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are getting together for a new film in which they play sisters. When asked who the lead- ing men would be, Lawrence replied, “No, no, no, no, no. There’s not really boys in it.” © Corbis Source: complex.com THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL ART EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS If a work of art can cause audiences to question the human condition, the role of art, or the state of the world, it would be considered a success. Of course, some works and exhibitions cause a stir for different reasons. And sometimes, it may seem that some art exists only to shock Location | Miami Date | 1983 A rtists Christo and Jeanne-Claude stirred up a massive controversy in 1983 when they used 6.5 million sqft of pink plastic to surround 11 islands in Biscayne Bay. Environmentalists were furious at the idea, and a federal trial came to a head just months before the installation. SURROUNDED ISLANDS Location | Códice Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua Date | 2007 F or this exhibition, Guillermo Vargas tied an emaciated dog to a wall in the Codice Gallery in Nicaragua. On the wall behind the dog were the words “You Are What You Read,” spelled out with dog food. The dog died. EXPOSICION NO 1 Location | Most recently at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, New York Date | 1989-2012 A ndres Serrano received death threats and hate mail for years following the unveiling of his photograph ‘Piss Christ’. It was a picutre of a small plastic crucifix, submerged in a jar of Serrano’s urine. Many Christians took offense to the piece. When it was shown in 2011, it was vandalized by a group of Christian fundamentalists. Location | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Date | 1989 T he exhibition titled ‘What is the proper way to display a US flag?’ consisted of a photomontage of Korean students burning the flag and an American flag on the floor. Now imagine what would have happened in India. WHAT IS THE PROPER WAY TO DISPLAY A US FLAG? SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI NOVEMBER 8, 2015 27
Transcript of Is Harvard becoming to fashion
TIMES CURATORTOI BRINGS YOU A WEEKLY PICK OF STIMULATING IDEAS AND OPINIONS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN OTHER MEDIA, ONLINE AND OFFLINE
Halle Berry’s marriage to Olivier Martinez is in trouble and the
actress seems on her way to her third divorce. So her ex-husbands took to Twitter to bad-mouth the actress. Her first husband, baseball star David Justice, warned Martinez that he would soon become “the worst guy in histo-ry.” Husband Number 2, R&B singer Eric Benet, agreed, tweeting “My man at @23davidjustice is tweeting some truth dis’ mornin.”
For more: thedailybeast.com
GANGING UP ON HALLEPRICE FIXING
73 yearsThat’s the amount of time the price of Coca Cola stayed constant – at 5 cents. A deal signed with bottlers allowed them to buy Coke syrup at a fixed price, forever. When bottled Coke sales took off, Coke realized they would lose out on profits, so they advertised the 5 cent price to keep bottled Coke prices steady.
After Elton John was pranked by a hoax call, the singer, who believed the caller
to be Mr Putin, took to Instagram to say he wanted to discuss the rights of gay people in Russia. The singer was surprised to receive a call from the man himself, who apologized to John for the hoax call. “I was very flattered that he reached out to me. I look forward to a further time when I can discuss things with him face to face within the next year. He was very gracious and he spoke good English,” said John.
For more: itv.com
PUTIN CALLS ELTON
These days, ageism is taken for grant-ed in the world of business. Young people have more energy. They’re
more capable of picking things up, and have no problems spending long hours at the office. By the time a person is 50, if she or he hasn’t made it to the top rungs of the corporate ladder, it can be assumed that it’s the end of the line, a countdown to retirement, or worse, redundancy.
But if you’re divorced, 50 can b e c o m e t h e n e w 2 0 , a r g u e s Financial Times’ Lucy Kellaway. She was at a dinner with members of a corporate law firm, and noticed that she was the oldest person present. She asked one of her fellow diners where the lawyers in their late 50s and early 60s were. The diner told her that they had all been eased out. “The trouble with the law, he ex-plained, is that it takes its toll on you, and if you’ve been at it for 30 years it is almost impossible to hold on to any sense of ur-gency. By the time you reach your mid-fifties, it is usually time to start thinking about going,” she writes.
But there was an exception to this rule. “And that was lawyers in their fifties who had recently been divorced and were start-ing again with mortgages and young chil-dren. They had all the experience of their
years — and all the drive of someone 30 years younger. They were propelled by the need to make a vast amount of money but, instead of having a lifetime in which to do it, they had a mere decade. The combina-tion of extreme wisdom and extreme hun-ger made them unbeatable,” she writes.
Kellaway examines the conventional wisdom that the stress of an ongoing di-vorce makes employees vulnerable, and finds that it may not always apply. After
all, she notes, the one constant about di-vorce is that it makes you poorer. “To comfortable, middle-aged professionals, feeling a little short of funds can be an unwelcome shock, and the effect of it can, in the right circumstances, be agreeably galvanising,” she writes.
At More magazine, Mary Lou Quinlan finds that true as well, especially for women. She says that a speedier recovery from divorce is linked to having a career option to fall back on. Quinlan looks at several case studies of women who un-derwent painful divorces and found that hard work – however cliched that may sound – was one of the best ways out of the emotional turmoil that resulted.
Ultimately, it comes down to money, especially for those divorcing later in life, says Kellaway. “Almost all the sci-entific studies will tell you that mon-ey doesn’t motivate. Yet when you have just parted company with your nest egg and lost some of the finan-cial security you thought you had, every pay cheque becomes a minor cause of celebration — and the same old, same old work suddenly seems as fresh and full of possibility as it ever did,” she writes.
For more: ft.com, more.com
CLEAN BREAK: Divorcees tend to work harder
At 50, divorce can be good for your career
MYTUBEThe latest stunt by daredevils Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet is going through the internet like a jet’s afterburner during take off. Rossy and Reffet fly jetpacks and soar and dive around an Emirates A380 Airbus. The whole stunt is an ad for Emir-ates, but it doesn’t make it any less impressive.
For more: youtube.com
For a long time, Harvard Business School was seen as a male bas-tion. Just two years ago, The New York Times ran a devastating piece by Jodi Kantor, exposing simmer-
ing frustrations felt by female students who’d felt overlooked and undervalued at the school. Kantor also wrote about the efforts of Drew Gilpin, the first female president of Harvard University, and Nitin Nohria, the Dean of Harvard Busi-ness School, to address this issue. “Their correctives included hiring more female faculty; enlisting coaches to work with women reluctant to raise their hands in class; providing professors daily reports about whom they called on (to spotlight
subtle gender biases); decreasing the em-phasis on ‘case method,’ a teaching ap-proach that graded students on individ-ual class participation; and ramping up ‘field method,’ which factors in real-life problem solving in groups. In other words, you no longer had to be the loud-est, most aggressive voice in the room to necessarily succeed at HBS,” writes Lau-ren Sherman at Marie Claire.
Gilpin’s and Nohria’s efforts came at the right time. A quiet revolution was already taking place at Harvard. In 2008, Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, classmates at HBS, hit upon the idea of renting out designer clothing. They got in touch with New York fashion designer
Diane Von Furstenberg — they guessed her email ID — and piqued her interest. The two Jennifers met von Furstenberg, and of that meeting was born Rent The Runway, an online service that provides designer dress and accessory rentals. Today, Rent The Runway offers over
50,000 dresses and 10,000 accessories from over 200 designer partners, including Badgley Mischka, Vera Wang, Alexis Bit-tar, Carolina Herrera and Calvin Klein.
Rent The Runway isn’t an isolated example. “HBS has churned out some of those (fashion and beauty) industries’ biggest disrupters: Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, founders of the fashion flash-sale pioneer Gilt Groupe; Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, the duo whose monthly beauty-goody sub-scription service, Birchbox, launched an army of copycats; and Katrina Lake, founder of Stitch Fix, an online personal-styling and shopping service that’s been dubbed the ‘Pandora of fashion’,” writes Sherman. In the past eight years, HBS has spawned at least 18 fashion and beau-ty startups, nearly all led by women and targeting women, which have raised an estimated $600 million in aggregate, Sherman notes. They include Vixxenn, a distributor of hair extensions; Tinker Tailor, a design-it-yourself clothing com-pany; Glamsquad, for at-home makeup, hair, and manicure services; and Mink, a 3-D printer for makeup that hopes to ‘irrevocably alter the way women shop for cosmetics.’
It’s still a hard slog. However, proxim-ity to fashion hub New York helps “be-cause women can’t get funded in Silicon Valley,” says Marcela Sapone, founder of a startup called Alfred, an on-demand ‘butler service’ that won the TechCrunch Disrupt startup competition in San Fran-cisco last year.
For more: marieclaire.com
Is Harvard becoming to fashion what Stanford is to technology?
COUTURE RENTAL: Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss got their idea for a high-fashion clothes and accessories rental startup after Hyman’s sister Becky spent more than $2,000 on a dress
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, HBS HAS CHURNED OUT SOME OF THE BIGGEST DISRUPTERS IN THE FASHION AND BEAUTY INDUSTRY, AND ALL THE FOUNDERS HAVE BEEN WOMEN
Last week, Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 had to make an emergency landing after something triggered onboard alarms. The plane was en route from Syd-
ney to Kuala Lumpur with more than 2,000 animals — mostly goats and sheep. But the four crew members on the Boeing 747-400 freighter received a smoke indication
in a cargo bay, forcing them to come early to land. When they checked the issue in Bali Denpasar 45 minutes later, emergency services found no smoke, according to Avi-ation Herald. They then reported that the smoke indication was identified to be the result of exhaust gases and manure pro-duced by the goats. Singapore Airlines does seem to have trouble with animals. The incident follows another emergency landing by Singapore Airlines in August
after one of its aircraft flew into a flock of storks, which tore a hole in its nose. The airline’s officials say that there was no proof that the goats were guilty, and for the media, the goats were just... scapegoats.
For more: mirror.co.uk
Flatulent goats force cargo aircraft down
CARBON EMISSIONS: Running with a full tank of gas
SERIOUS
WHY SO
If you are a thief whose chosen line of business is snatching mobile phones
from women, it’s probably a good idea not to target a world-class athlete. That’s what one unnamed man found out when he tried to grab Serena Wil-liams’ phone and run. “He began to run but I was too fast. (Those sprints came in handy) I was upon him in a flash! In the most menacing yet calm no non-sense voice I could muster I kindly asked him if he ‘accidentally’ took the wrong phone,” she wrote in a widely shared post on Facebook. Needless to say, Wil-liams got her phone back.
For more: facebook.com
MEN? WHO NEEDS THEM?
Serena the superwoman!
© JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are getting together for a new film in which
they play sisters. When asked who the lead-ing men would be, Lawrence replied, “No, no, no, no, no. There’s not really boys in it.”
© Corbis
Source: complex.com
THE MOST CONTROVERSIALART EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
If a work of art can cause audiences to question the human condition, the role of art, or the state of the world, it would be considered a success. Of
course, some works and exhibitions cause a stir for different reasons. And sometimes, it may seem that some art exists only to shock
Location | MiamiDate | 1983
Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude stirred up a massive controversy
in 1983 when they used 6.5 million sqft of pink plastic to surround 11 islands in Biscayne Bay. Environmentalists were furious at the idea, and a federal trial came to a head just months before the installation.
SURROUNDED ISLANDS
Location | Códice Gallery, Managua, Nicaragua
Date | 2007
For this exhibition, Guillermo Vargas tied an emaciated dog
to a wall in the Codice Gallery in Nicaragua. On the wall behind the dog were the words “You Are What You Read,” spelled out with dog food. The dog died.
EXPOSICION NO 1
Location | Most recently at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, New York
Date | 1989-2012
Andres Serrano received death threats and hate
mail for years following the unveiling of his photograph ‘Piss Christ’. It was a picutre of a small plastic crucifix, submerged in a jar of Serrano’s urine. Many Christians took offense to the piece. When it was shown in 2011, it was vandalized by a group of Christian fundamentalists.
Location | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Date | 1989
The exhibition titled ‘What is the proper way to display a US flag?’ consisted of a
photomontage of Korean students burning the flag and an American flag on the floor. Now imagine what would have happened in India.
WHAT IS THE PROPER WAY TO DISPLAY A US FLAG?
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