Word: compensationitis
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After 20 Cambridge Police officers appealed to the city council last night— saying that officers who also serve in military combat receive a smaller net paycheck than other city employees pulling double duty—the council passed a measure to give all enlisted employees their full city...
While the avid Harvard football fan was glued to the TV or computer screen watching the NFL draft Sunday afternoon, hoping to see Clifton Dawson’s name appear, Dawson himself was already prepared to start his professional career. By the time the draft was over, he was a...
Between the Courses of Instruction catalogue, CUE guide and Handbook for Students, Harvard freshmen get bombarded with an intimidating 2,590 pages of academic jargon before they even start their classes. But this past year, for the first time, they had some hired help in navigating the mess: their Peer...
Christina L. Elmore ’09 played Undine, a self-made black businesswoman whose suave European husband (Brock W. Duke ’07) has just run off—taking the contents of her bank account with him and leaving her bankrupt. But Undine discovers that he has...
And why are these citizen marketers so willing to shill for free? "It gives people social currency," says Walter Carl, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. Inside access to products and the feeling that companies care about what you and your friends think are such strong motivating...