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...airlines are trying to patch together closer alliances through investment or gain strength through mergers. Lufthansa recently bought a 19% stake in JetBlue, hoping to take advantage of JetBlue's strong presence in New York City to expand its reach with U.S. passengers. On April 14, Delta and Northwest agreed to a $3 billion merger, and a Continental-United union could be next. "Foreign carriers are merging to grow larger and financially stronger, and U.S. carriers have to match that to remain competitive," says Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association...
Companies are putting real resources into these efforts. North Shore--LIJ Health System, for example, plowed about $10 million into worker training and tuition reimbursement last year. People at all levels are encouraged to expand their skills, which is how employees who start out as secretaries or housekeepers eventually wind up as technicians on surgical teams. That helps lead to a one-year retention rate of 96%, besting the industry-average 88%, and, ultimately, to better care for patients, says chief human-resources officer Joseph Cabral, who likes to display a chart that shows patient-satisfaction scores rising with employee...
...just after graduation.” As reported by the Yale Daily News, students said that in the wake of Harvard’s “much-hyped” tuition cut for third-year law students, Yale would fall behind if the law school did not expand its current benefits for public interest. Conroy said that the law school had been reassessing its public interest and financial aid initiatives for the past couple of years under Koh’s leadership. “I would not characterize our announcement as a response to Harvard?...
...explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand the project to Boston later this year. In D.C., Ebrahim said he placed three of his graduate students in three different nonprofits: a meal program, a drop-in center, and a housing service for domestic violence victims. Ebrahim said he focused his work on homelessness because it raised unique problems...
...works for some time, Vanderlick said. In 2003, Yale launched a one billion-dollar initiative dedicated to improving science, engineering, and medicine at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. According to Yale spokeswoman Janet R. Emanuel, the new SEAS is one part of that initiative, which also aims to expand faculty by 10 percent and create a new building. While the engineering school will remain as a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the transition to school status will afford Yale’s SEAS more opportunities to work with other departments and schools within the university...