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When Evelyn Padham of West Milford, N.J., paid her $45 telephone bill to MCI last month, she did so with the comforting thought that $2.25 was going to help save the environment. Padham switched her phone service from Sprint this summer largely because MCI was offering new customers the opportunity to donate 5% of their monthly telephone bills to any of four major conservation groups: the Nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation. "I'm not real involved in the environmental movement," says Padham, "but this is something I can do to help...
With the new telephone system, students receive a 10 percent discount on the lowest MCI rates. In addition, they do not have to pay federal tax on their calls because Harvard, a non-profit organization, is not subject to federal...
...bend some old rules. Two firms based in the Washington area stand out for their willingness to do that. At Gannett, the media firm, 41% of the workers in the top four categories are women, as well as four of 15 members of the board of directors. At MCI, where 42% of the 20,400 employees are female, women hold 12% of the 350 top-management jobs, double the number three years ago. Both companies attribute their progress in part to the efforts they have made to help working mothers balance job and family responsibilities...
...companies have jettisoned the rigid "get up or get out" corporate formula that held that managers, like sharks, must constantly move forward or sink. After all, many executives these days are women with small children or women whose husbands are pursuing ambitious careers of their own. John Zimmerman, an MCI senior vice president, cites the case of the corporate-development executive, a mother, who has turned down two promotions in the past year because she did not want to move. At Gannett, a woman declined a promotion to publisher because she was busy adopting a child. Her decision was accepted...
...toll charge for calls out of the toll-free area is going down within the state. But the out-of-state service deal that Harvard has with MCI will remain intact, with a basic per-minute charge of 11 cents for all evening, night and weekend calls to anywhere...