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...either, mostly because Bill Moyers won't write it, but his, too, was a big life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance in the Army: he got along by going along. And that meant being a cipher...
Sally Roberts, now graduated, Martha Roberts and Meyer got a chance to hone their strokes this summer when a combined Harvard and Yale women's team traveled to England in June. The trip's highlight came when the trio triumphed in the team's victory over a combined Oxford and Cambridge team on June...
...what Cantor calls the frequent malaise among employees at large institutions who feel insignificant--was to issue a computerized statement to every employee listing each of his benefits, such as retirement and hospitalization. "That statement helped people know Harvard does care, even though it's a big place. We got literally hundreds of responses, and all but one were favorable. One woman wrote in to say she thought we should not be wasting money on something so trivial," Cantor says...
...Most Harvard departments don't have rows upon rows of people working in the same room. You have an entity within a department. But we've got to come up with policies to counter the feeling of just being a cog," Cantor says. One of his policies was to give a Harvard chair to employees celebrating their 25th year at Harvard. About 100 people get that chair every year, Cantor says, adding, "It's a neat ceremony...
...staff and supervisors asking their perception of how the personnel department was doing its job. An employee's perception of the personnel department's effectiveness can be used to measure morale, he says. The questionnaire culminated in an effort to make the department appear more accessible, Cantor says. "We got a report card of about a B," Cantor adds, emphasizing the personnel department has lots of room for improvement...