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...executives while conducting their research, and they illustrate each point of their plan--from shaping a management team to crafting a strategic agenda to engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples of success and failure. To explain the importance of preparation before Day One, for instance, Neff and Citrin cite Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, who, realizing she knew relatively little about finance, enlisted the director of financial analysis to give her a crash course in "Balance Sheet 101." To underscore the value of communication, they reveal that Gap CEO Paul Pressler kept a weblog as he visited stores around...
That may seem surprising, given that people frequently cite their children as their biggest source of delight--which was a finding of a TIME poll on happiness conducted last month. When asked, "What one thing in life has brought you the greatest happiness?", 35% said it was their children or grandchildren or both. (Spouse was far behind at just 9%, and religion a runner-up at 17%.) The discrepancy with the study of Texas women points up one of the key debates in happiness research: Which kind of information is more meaningful--global reports of well-being ("My life...
...Health and Human Services published a report recommending that marijuana remain a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no acceptable medicinal uses and represents a high risk of abuse. However, in preparing this report the government glossed over contradictory studies and even caveats in the articles that they did cite. For example, in arguing that marijuana is dangerous because of a “proven” potential for abuse in humans, the report discounts numerous self-medication studies of animals that do not indicate a potential for abuse. The report also fails to acknowledge the problems inherent in conducting...
These short-sighted, stricter travel limits will inevitably hinder Harvard’s newfound—and critically important—goal of providing students with a broader, international perspective. To cite one regional example: now that Lebanon and Yemen are off-limits, students wishing to travel to the Middle East are left to choose between the Gulf, Jordan and Egypt. Cynics may contend that these countries can bestow enough perspective on the Middle East to suffice, but we suggest that these cynics try convincing a Lebanese national that his culture is exactly the same as Jordan?...
...program also links entries to PDFs on the web or on your hardrive, so you’ll be able to find them faster. Your bibliographies can be flawless even if you’ve never heard of MLA style with the help of the “Cite While You Write” function, completely compatible with Microsoft Word. The latest version, EndNote 8 for Windows 2000 and XP is a pricey $329.95, but with your student ID it can be yours...