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Toyota's relentless cost engineering creates efficiencies that Detroit can chase but not match. Its philosophy of continuous improvement--rethinking the thousands of steps that go into building each model-- allows Toyota to constantly trim material costs and production time. The company lowered the base price of its 1997 Camry by 4%, for example, after taking steps that included streamlining the front-bumper assembly from 20 parts to 13 and reducing the number of steel body fasteners from 53 to 15. Such improvements enable Toyota to assemble a car in 21 hours, vs. 25 for Ford, 27 for Chrysler...
Judith was an institution builder at City Year and much more than a fundraiser--she was a friend, mentor and role model, especially for young women. We are disturbed, however, by criticism of Judith for being a "fundraiser"--as if raising funds is somehow beneath or irrelevant to those who are serious about social change. If you are interested in changing the world, you must shift values, attitudes and resources. Judith did all three...
...members of the Harvard community should know that City Year might never have been started, would not be engaging over 700 young people today for a year of community service or have served as a model for Americorps' 25,000 participants, without the courage, commitment, vision and enormous hard work of Judith Kidd. She is, in all respects, a co-founder and builder of the organization...
Kappa Alpha Theta, former Soc. Chair, Current VP Development Counselor, Outreach Coord.; Peer Contraceptive; Harvard Model Congress, Chair; Radcliffe Union of Students, Pub. Chair, Coord of "Getting to Work" Conference; UC, Freshman Caucus; PBH, Chinatown Afterschool Program
City Year, a model national service program, has acknowledged it did not pay its bills in the first part of fiscal year 1996, shortly after Kidd left her post as the Acting Co-Chief Operating Officer...