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...article in the Boston Globe published last month, Drake Bennett calls this last tenet into question. Bennett offers up examples of companies whose goal-driven business models led them to fail, from GM’s ill-fated drive to capture 29 percent of the automobile market to Ford??s disregard for warnings about the combustibility-prone Pinto in its disastrous determination to win back market share. What goes for business goes for life—Bennett quotes Adam Galinsky, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, who warns that goal-setting...
...surprise of the Ancient Eight, appears to be one of those teams that just knows how to win. The Big Red has outscored its three opponents by a total of just five points, and won last week against Lehigh during the last play of the game on Nathan Ford??s 63rd (not an exaggeration) throw of the game. Yet here it stands undefeated. Can Cornell sustain a winning streak this way? I don’t think so, not against the Crimson at Harvard Stadium at least...
...dancing girls blur into a wispy line of smoke. Such metamorphoses are startling in the black and white films; they highlight the pervasiveness of digital change. Perhaps the most arresting installation is “Lossless #3,” a highly pixilated and compressed version of John Ford??s classic Western “The Searchers.” The film contains neither plot nor dialogue, and the soundtrack mostly consists of eerie pitches that echo throughout the entire gallery. When a recognizable noise breaks through—whether it be a gunshot or a trumpet announcing...
...professors at Harvard who can claim a résumé punctuated by multiple stints on Pennsylvania Avenue. But it was a long journey from practicing his serve on the tennis team at Brigham Young to playing a match at the White House—as Gerald Ford??s partner...
...It’s as if the Yankees promoted manager Joe Torre to reach out to the Red Sox,” Dan Becker, director of the global warming program at the Sierra Club, told The New York Times when Cischke was appointed in 2007.But yesterday, she focused on Ford??s top environmental priorities, including “ecoboosting”—reducing carbon emissions and increasing fuel economy without compromising performance—and reducing the weight of their cars. Ford has begun researching advanced technologies such as biofuel, hybrid engines, and hydrogen fuel cells...