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Hastings, 43, is modest about his firm. "I'm a funny kind of guy to be running a consumer company," he says, admitting that he would just as soon discuss artificial intelligence. He thinks he can win the battle with WalMart, which launched a copycat service in 2002, and Blockbuster, which plans to try a similar rental program in the U.S. soon. Hastings has an advantage: like Amazon, Netflix relies on ratings--up to five stars--by its members, who are asked to weigh in on what they rent. These ratings go into the system's algorithm, and out come...
...Bosch employee and union leader at the plant. In June, workers at two Siemens mobile-phone factories in Germany agreed to extend their workweek from 35 to 40 hours with no extra pay in order to keep 2,000 jobs from being shifted to Hungary. That created a copycat effect, as other German companies demanded worker concessions at their own factories. DaimlerChrysler threatened to move 6,000 jobs if workers at its Mercedes factories didn't swallow a €500 million cost-cutting package. Workers walked off the job at first, but agreed to the deal last week. The German...
...Harvard College Curricular Review has been often criticized, and rightfully so, for its overwhelmingly copycat, “me too” quality. Unabashedly following in the footsteps of curricular reforms at other universities, the curricular review has attempted to spin even the commonplace (study abroad) into a uniquely Harvard innovation (internationalization). Notably, U.S. News and World Report lists 42 schools where at least half its students study abroad, including nearby Wellesley. Even the most foundational change proposed by the review, a shift from the Core Curriculum to distribution requirements giving students “great freedom of choice...
...days following Ramos’ arrest, four students reported being groped by a man on a bicycle. Giacoppo said the incidents were likely copycat crimes...
...core question they have so studiously ignored: Who rules? Whether on Iraq or on the stability pact, various sets of Europe's nations have replied: Not France and Germany, not any duo or threesome. In fact, the more these two flex their muscles, the more the others will copycat the course laid out by Berlin and Paris in their contest with Washington: resist hegemony! In other words, what is sauce for the two ganders is sauce for the goslings. Europe will not be one until all members, large and small, agree to live by the same rules...