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May 21, 2012 - 12:58am
SU business junior Barnett Klane founded his speaker business of the principles of customer service and innovation.

Barnett Klane had the place to himself.

No other student sacrificed their Christmas Eve to work at the Whitman School of Management. But while his friends were all home for Syracuse University's holiday break, the business junior knew his time would be better spent alone, working to expand Klane Consulting, the speaker business he founded.

"I'd rather be home, but you know how it is," Klane told his friends. "Hard work pays off."