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...purges signal that corporate boards and shareholders across Europe are fast catching up with the U.S. in refusing to tolerate scandal, sustained losses or other indications of poor management. In a study published last year of 2,500 publicly traded companies, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton found a sharp increase in CEO turnover--and it is Europe's chief executives who are the biggest losers. From 1995 to 2002, the frequency of CEO succession in Europe increased 192%, compared with a rise of just 2% in North America, where company bosses have traditionally enjoyed less job security...
...Allen said that current CUE evaluations do not provide faculty with the information they need to improve their teaching...
...Allen offered a different theory...
...would actually say that it was cut for political reasons,” Allen said...
...institute would have brought the Faculty of Arts and Science’s three principal pedagogical resources—the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Harvard Writing Project and the Instructional Computing Group—under one roof. And Allen said the creation of such an umbrella organization “would restructure administrative lines of command, and perhaps create more lines of command.” This would, he said, reduce the influence of the existing institutions’ administrators, who would now find themselves under the direction of the institute...