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Many of the council's leaders said yesterday they will insist on student representation on the committee that will decide how to renovate and slice up the building...
Then Tom Gonzales, 55, founder of Commerce One, an e-commerce support-services firm, took over as CEO and immediately rejiggered the management structure. "I had to insist this wasn't a fraternity," Gonzales says. "It was a company." He called in a management consultant to do the company's strategic planning so employees could focus on their technical work. Today StreetFusion, with solid backing from venture-capital firm Iceberg Ventures, has 100 employees and revenues in the tens of millions...
...might have brought in a few gray hairs as window dressing for the road show before a public offering, he notes, but these days, VCs are bringing in seasoned managers much earlier. "If I am committing $10 million to two guys and a plan, I am going to insist on adult supervision," Rutstein says...
Denied a fair hearing by other scientists (so they always insist), these outsiders promote their work as best they can--through press releases, lectures and, in one gutsy case, a full-page ad in the journal Physics Today. Maybe someday a latter-day Einstein will overrule the energy laws we know. Until then, perpetual motion will be an impossible dream that's impossible to resist...
...make lasting change at a large university and one as decentralized as this takes time and those who insist that [implementing a living wage] takes place overnight or in a short time don't understand how the University works," he said...