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...trying to compete with China receive little sympathy from their larger cousins. One justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead of the 34? they had been receiving). Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night...
...place, when businessmen wore gray flannel suits, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominated the membership of the power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids, and lionize instead the untidy entrepreneurialism of high-tech geeks like the young Bill Gates. We disdain order, and we cherish mess. Implicitly, we accept that the incivility and vulgarity which typify messy societies are a worthwhile trade-off for the liberation that such...
...ominously-named MyDoom virus launched an assault last week against The SCO Group, whose president and CEO, Darl C. McBride, spoke at HLS on the implications of a copyright lawsuit his company has filed against IBM...
...justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job last week to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66˘ an hour instead of the 34˘ they received. Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems...
...Beverly can command the attention of an entire table in the dining hall,” says Roger Porter, IBM professor of government and business and Dunster House master. “One evening, eight members of the basketball team were dining in Dunster House after practice. I walked over to wish them well and ended up standing behind Beverly for nearly 30 seconds, waiting for a break in the conversation. Beverly obviously could not see me, but the others did, and almost broke into laughter as she kept talking in a very animated...