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Some members of BGLTSA argue the Harvard gay community is far from insular. Andrew C. Karas ‘03, the organization’s treasurer says the BGLTSA keeps strong ties with the greater Northeastern gay community. “The important work of [Laure E. “Voop” de Vulpillieres ’02] is still with us,” he adds. Vulpillieres wrote her senior thesis on how Harvard’s chapter of BGLTSA could be strengthened...
Catherine R. Sproul ’05 says that last year she was overly dependent on the insular world of male social clubs. Back then she was a lacrosse player with older, athlete friends in final clubs, and she says it made sense for her to spend her time there. “We were thrown right into the final club scene,” she says...
Things looked very different little more than two years ago, when Lafley, 55, took over P&G, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. His gruff predecessor, Durk Jager, had launched a crash course to shake up the notoriously insular, slow-footed company but was forced out after just 17 months of expensive product launches that left consumers yawning. P&G had repeatedly failed to deliver expected earnings, and its stock tumbled 50% in six months. With most of the company's resources and best people focused on developing the next blockbuster new product, sales for the established brands were stagnating, market share...
Thanks to his easygoing demeanor and natural curiosity, he has begun to achieve what all of Jager's bluster could not: a transformation of the insular, arrogant culture that plagued P&G for decades. Once firm in the belief it needed to go it alone on everything, P&G is much more open to partnering with and learning from outsiders. One of Lafley's chief lieutenants, global-marketing officer James Stengel, occasionally meets with his peers at a range of other companies, from Kraft and Nestle to Toyota and Gucci, to keep abreast of new marketing trends--something that would...
...tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly depicted the tight-knit, insular yet culturally rich community of the Orthodox and Hasidim...