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...companies a lifeline, even though they probably should do it for the good of the economy. An out-of-business GM (or even a bankrupt, reorganized one) is more than just a dead factory here and there. "There are real risks of cascading bankruptcy and then supply-side seizures," Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs warned Congress, meaning that the ability of all car companies simply to make cars would be in jeopardy. The negative feedback in the supply chain would hurt partsmakers and dealers and even extend to retailers, restaurants and banks. But others argue that bankruptcy is exactly what...
Ever since an unstable Virginia Tech student went on a 2007 shooting rampage that left 32 dead, mental-health experts have been looking for answers. A new study by researchers from Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health and the New York State Psychiatric Institute provides some grim data: nearly half of college-age Americans have psychiatric problems, and fewer than one-quarter seek help...
...message. Embrace change: it is inevitable. Go with the flow. But Eric Abrahamson, a business-school professor at Columbia University, says the theory is full of holes: "It's a one-size-fits-all approach. There's not much here from the point of view of the recipients of the changes." The problem, he says, is that some employees have been burned out by too much corporate change: layoffs, restructuring, mergers; the cheese never stops moving. That's not a paradigm shift. It's management bereft of ideas...
Another roommate suggested a need for a tighter security system. She said she had visited Columbia University over Thanksgiving break and said that its “security was much more intense.” She noted that security guards were posted at every entrance and that students needed to verify their ID in order to gain entrance into the dorms...
...This definitely wouldn’t have happened at Columbia,” she said, describing the break-in as “bewildering...