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...bringing the market inside, with workers trading futures contracts on such "commodities" as sales, product success and supplier behavior. The concept: a work force contains vast amounts of untapped, useful information that a market can unlock. "Markets are likely to revolutionize corporate forecasting and decision making," says Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University, in Virginia, who has researched and developed markets. "Strategic decisions, such as mergers, product introductions, regional expansions and changing CEOs, could be effectively delegated to people far down the corporate hierarchy, people not selected by or even known to top management...
With no organized opposition emerging at the Faculty meeting of March 2, 1954, Harvard became the first school to endorse the Blackmer Report, approving the CEP report and creating a Committee on Special Standing. Harlan P. Hanson ’48, then-assistant senior tutor of Kirkland House, was put in charge of its implementation...
Breck says that he was granted credit in German after approaching Hanson in fall 1955 and discussing a German newspaper with him for about five minutes. Having spent a year across the ocean, Breck says, “I spoke much better German than...
...Sometimes I feel like Superman. I can conquer anything." All starting at $329 a night. For the chains, creating these special sanctums is a response to the popularity of boutique hotels, which have siphoned off customers. With average room prices rising just 1.9% this year over last, says Bjorn Hanson, a hospitality-industry analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers, this strategy allows hotels to attract well-heeled customers without alienating a more price-sensitive clientele. They can do this efficiently, too, by using the same operations staff...
...everyone who finds excess efficiency not exemplary but egregious, it’s time to reclaim “Sunday evenings in” as a source of pride, not shame. No matter how much you’re craving that Hanson hit, or those comfy chairs, or even that useful reminder of the joys of rhyming verse, Lamont isn’t the answer to your end-of-weekend woes. Study should be study regardless of whether anyone is watching. Resist ingratiation into the cult of the Reading Room and don’t make productivity a performance...