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...course, top-to-bottom rankings also provide a method for identifying and rewarding strong performers and encouraging everyone to work harder and smarter. "Management has to lift everyone up, not just use the process to brand and target people," says Edward Jensen, a partner in the Atlanta office of Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting...
...time of action, SAC was preparing to take applications. In past years, SAC had self-selected new members based on applications, an interview and demonstrated involvement with activities. This method had been criticized for being unfair...
...that the HLS education is top quality, but that there is room for improvement. “The fundamentals are pretty good,” he says. “I can see lots of experimentation within the first year curriculum without disrupting the central features of the Socratic method,” Zittrain says. Zittrain says he hopes the strategic plan, which cuts first year class size by half, could foster increased student-faculty interaction...
...charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged from his academic blueprint: work harder, better and longer and eventually you will persevere. "He's a workaholic. He just doesn't stop studying," says Hu Chung-hsin, a former adviser. Hu thinks it all traces back to Chen's poverty: "He's insecure...
...from gays trying to go straight is like surveying public opinion about one religion by polling people converting to another. Spitzer argues that since the goal of his work was simply to show that heterosexual conversion is possible, contacting people working to make the change was the only sensible method. "The question wasn't, Does everybody change?" he says. "The question was, Does anyone...