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...means everyone. On that same day in mid-November, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics company invited all of its 125,000 workers worldwide to stop work and instead think about simplifying it. (The brightest ideas would be shared company-wide.) Dubbed "Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips...
...same. Big lectures lend themselves to anonymity, and no one can hold you accountable for choosing to sidle out at 12:57. But waiting for someone to finish a thought should be understood as common courtesy. You wouldn’t stand up and leave a friend in mid-sentence, nor make a break for the door in response to a TF’s question. Why should Tal Ben-Shahar (or Michael Sandel, or Steven Pinker) have to watch dozens of students decide his final thoughts are worth less than a first look at the lunch offerings? Classes like...
...will look to build on the achievements of previous coach, John Kerr, who left Harvard in December to take a head coaching position at his alma mater, Duke University. “We were all really impressed that everywhere he went, he was successful,” freshman mid-fielder Robert Millock said. “He was really ambitious to make us into a top level program both on and off and the field.” Clark has had a very successful soccer career, both as a player and a coach. Only 31 years old, he has already...
...Harvard Kennedy School announced yesterday that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, will deliver the school’s graduation speech on June 4. Johnson-Sirleaf is a 1971 graduate of the school’s Mason Fellows Program, a mid-career masters in public administration. She has served as Liberian Finance Minister and held high-level positions at Citibank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who extended the formal offer, said doing so was an easy decision...
...mid-March, after years of review, Harvard plans to spin-off HMI’s health-care consulting functions to Partners HealthCare, the Massachusetts health-care delivery group that operates two prominent Harvard-affiliated hospitals—Brigham and Women’s and Mass. General...