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...Angeles Philharmonic has played concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, but has also competed with the Hollywood Bowl Association for guest conductors and soloists. Last summer both organizations made a move highly unusual in the music world, turned for advice to McKinsey & Co., a Manhattan firm of management consultants. McKinsey advised that what the two outfits needed was a joint director, added the even more radical suggestion that they consult an executive recruiting firm...
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...
Seniors can certainly consult their tutors, where the tutor's field of study and knowledge of other schools' departments makes such consultation appropriate. Yet it would seem quite desirable for the departments to organize such consultations and perhaps to appoint a few knowledgeable members of the Faculty to carry them on in each field. These Faculty members would not be doing distasteful administrative and "guidance placement" work, but rather would be engaged in presumably interesting "shop talk" with students who are potential scholars in their own field...
...staff of nearly 50 people, to publish a series of books now totaling 35 and to occupy a position of unquestioned world-wide eminence in the Russian field. Scholars come from all over the world to use Harvard's excellent collection of Soviet documents and publications and to consult with the personnel of the Center...
...Return all unused bases to the Philippines and turn Olongapo back to Filipino civilian administration. ¶Consult with the Philippine government before basing long-range missiles in the Philippines, and on all movement of Philippine-based forces not covered by the SEATO and U.S.-Philippine mutual-defense treaties...