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...Italy 's smaller carriers this year. That would keep the flagship airline afloat and avert disastrous labor strife. But even if the bailout gets past E.U. competition czar Mario Monti, there's a more far-reaching conundrum. Analysts say Alitalia's long-term survival requires further privatization and a merger with another major airline. But Alitalia is in no shape to merge. A Europe-based manager of a U.S. airline scoffs at Italy 's latest plan, which foresees layoffs of 1,100 and fiscal help from fuel tax cuts. "That's just spit in the ocean...
...Radcliffe’s evolution has serious ramifications for women’s lives at Harvard. While some effects of the merger can be read as positive signs of gender equality, others leave a gaping inequity that it is the University’s responsibility to emend. Until the 1970s, women at Harvard enjoyed a huge amount of physical space designated as theirs. They also had guaranteed administrative support for, among other things, maintaining such places. While men had and still retain the option of joining final clubs for social space and networking, women’s prior access...
Forget about grand speeches and brain tricks. If you need to persuade a lazy worker to start carrying his load or to convince a rival company that a merger makes sense, draw up a psychological plan. In Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner says leaders who propose a change of thinking, and back their suggestion with research and resources, are more likely to succeed than those who rely on the rhetoric of leadership alone. Gardner uses British Petroleum as a prime example: CEO John Browne turned...
Finally, Jane B. Calhoun, research officer for the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, told the Council about the merger of two committees charged with vetting science projects involving student research with human subjects...
...surge in business, BNSF is spending $1.9 billion on capital improvements this year, and it plans to invest an additional $1.4 billion in 2005. Those sums will add to the railway's sizable investments since the old Burlington Northern and Santa Fe rails came together in 1995. Since that merger, the company has put down 600 new miles of rail, at $2 million a mile. With delays persisting along the busy transcon route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail. BNSF...