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...University is going to try to nickle and dime us,” said Jeffrey Booth, a Harvard College Library assistant who has worked at the University for 23 years. “But we need a raise to keep up with the high cost of living in the area...
President Faust’s letter references Harvard’s 2005 task force that conducted two comprehensive surveys of diversity. The conclusions of that research focused exclusively on race and gender. Harvard spent $50 million on this task force. However, not a dime has ever been authorized to study Harvard’s disparate inequity in political ideology...
Enter cozy mittens. Sherman says the company has sold about 3.5 million pairs since their October 2009 debut; thanks to the Olympics, 1.5 million have cleared the shelves since Feb. 1. But get this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes...
...organization find it difficult to deliver bad news to managers. Nearly every company faces this issue from time to time. "But this is a brand-threatening, life-endangering crisis," he says. Changing the way Toyota works won't be easy, says Grossberg. "Management cannot turn on a dime. They have so much invested in doing things the Toyota way," he says...
...When Obama spoke about creating jobs for small business, Boehner spread his hands and cocked his head as if to say, "So now you're getting it." When Obama congratulated himself for not raising income taxes by "a single dime," Boehner looked incredulous - as if to say, "Really, he wants credit for that?" When Obama asked "if anyone from either party has a better approach" to health care reform, Boehner shot out of his seat and raised his hand. He was not called...