Word: joneses
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In their new book, Multi-nationals in their Communities, two British academics look at well-run CSR projects and how they help the communities where they operate. Ian W. Jones, a management lecturer at Oxford University, and Michael G. Pollitt, a reader in business economics at Cambridge University, co-direct...
TIME: What are some ways in which it does go wrong? jones: There are examples of companies being pressured by local communities to build a hospital or town hall in exchange for the right to build a pipeline. But the truth will out ... If you start doing those things, at...
Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 and the Federal Open Market Committee voted to slash the target federal funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks can lend to each other, by half a percentage point yesterday to four-and-three-quarters percent—a...
SOUTH HAMILTON—The chortling horses, long-handled mallets, and cries of celebration returned to Gibney Field yesterday. The Harvard Polo Club, which has struggled to find a permanent place at the University since the late 19th century, jockeyed to victory in its first game of the school year...
I love the way Tommy Lee Jones acknowledges the change in his son, the changes in the army he faithfully served, the changes in the world we all inhabit. It's no more than a fleeting expression, a flicker in his eyes, and the result is not obvious anger or...