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...issue Brabeck is explaining a lot these days is the big data project he has put in place. Dubbed GLOBE, an acronym for global business excellence, it involves as many as 2,000 people worldwide working to define and standardize everything the company does. Switzerland, Singapore and Peru were the first to switch to the new data system last November, and they found they were able to eliminate a mass of duplications and redundancies in their systems--for example, tens of thousands of customers who were listed several times in databases, alongside vendors who had gone out of business. Among...
...many people to do i-banking and other lucrative careers. If anything, the university should make sure the door is open to public service careers, but should be career-neutral,” says Tannenwald. Despite the prosperity and privileges that Wall Street promises, the prospect of transforming the globe, starting with their own hometowns, might influence future graduates to cultivate brain gain. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Balciunas is not alone is seeing promise elsewhere: “I think it’s exciting to maybe go back and start things back home...
...sound itself is surprising, what’s even more unexpected is the source of the resonance. It comes from a ball-carrying, run-blocking fullback.Until this year, though, the exploits of Noah Van Niel, the multi-talented starter for the Harvard football team, had gone largely unnoticed.A Boston Globe story last month changed all that, as the native of Newton, Mass. became somewhat of a celebrity for his dual abilities as a football player and an opera singer. Van Niel has even appeared on National Public Radio and CBS’ “The Early Show?...
...sweet smell of economic recovery. Stock markets around the globe are resurgent, corporate spending looks set to rise, and optimists are even talking about a return to the golden years of noninflationary growth in the mid-1990s. But how strong is this upturn, really--and is it sustainable...
...Gehry was chosen to help plan Harvard’s Allston expansion. At the time, he told The Boston Globe he would “add some design DNA to the overall project...