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...created a tension that Toyota couldn't resolve, says MIT operations expert Steven Spear: "If quality is first, it drives a certain set of behaviors. If market share is the goal, it drives a different set of behaviors." Even as Toyota was catching up to the global No. 1, General Motors, the reputation of its cars was slipping. Spear, who has apprenticed in Toyota factories, says the problem was that the "Toyota way" - in which knowledge accumulated by élite cadres of engineers and assembly workers over many years is shared across the company - was diluted by the demands...
...Indeed, your assault on the Humanities in general seems part of a program to reduce King’s to a pauper or, perhaps, something closer to a vocational school,” Hamburger wrote in the e-mail to King’s College department administrators...
Lowell House general cook Stanley A. Ewing said he thinks these new restrictions will only delay the mealtime rush. He said that limiting interhouse diners to one guest per resident until 6:45 p.m. will only cause the large influx of students to come in later...
...College Evelyn Hammond’s discretionary fund, is slated for use by student organizations that wish to travel domestically and House Committees that plan to throw events. Spending on student life is a good cause, but this particular direction might not yield the highest returns for the general student population. While the Dean deserves praise for reinstating the program, we believe it should be reserved only for student groups, with no provision for HoCos...
Scott Brown of Massachusetts was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Thursday, having overcome huge disadvantages in fundraising, familiarity and party ID in his race last month against state attorney general Martha Coakley...