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Junior co-captain Hilary Thorndike lost to Margot Kearney 9-4, 5-9, 9-4, 9-6 at No. 7. Kearney hit several balls that died in the back corners, knocking Thorndike off her game and forcing her to rely on playing boasts...
Pros: The built-in bar and sturdy pool table that doubles as a massive Beirut table. As James M. Kearney ’04 puts it, “Every night is our own 28-person party if all the guys have only one guest...
...experience with a leading brokerage will probably help. Financial-services companies in the U.S. are expected to move more than 500,000 jobs overseas in the next five years, according to a survey by management consultant A.T. Kearney, and India is by far the top destination. U.S. banks, insurance firms and mortgage companies have been using outsourcing to handle tech support for years. Now these firms are using Indian workers to handle the business operations--say, assessing loan applications and credit checks--that the technology supports. Kumar Mahadeva, CEO of the thriving outsourcing firm Cognizant, explains the appeal: "It becomes...
...next logical step, says Andrea Bierce, a co-author of the A.T. Kearney study, is jobs that require more complex financial skills such as equity research and analysis or market research for developing new business. Evalueserve, a niche outsourcing company in Delhi, already performs research for patent attorneys and consulting firms in the U.S. In April, J.P. Morgan Chase said it would hire about 40 stock-research analysts in Bombay--about 5% of its total research staff. Novartis employs 40 statisticians in Bombay who process data from the drug company's clinical research...
...staff worldwide in recent years. But it's far less clear that merger mania is good for the companies themselves or their workers. The very consultants who touted mergers in the 1990s have since published studies about the outcome, and they make stark reading. One survey by consultants A.T. Kearney revealed that 58% of mergers failed to reach the value goals set by top managers. A McKinsey & Co. report found that 40% of mergers failed to capture the cost advantages that theoretically justified the takeover. Most starkly of all, Booz Allen & Hamilton concluded that "the likelihood of failure is greater...