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Hammer, who lives in Newton, Massachusetts, came to his idea the long way. An electrical engineer and a former M.I.T. computer-science professor, he gradually became more interested in what people were doing than in computers. In his forthcoming book, Beyond Reengineering, he attacks the corporate focus on doing "tasks"--making part of a car, say, or doing a credit check. To him, the key to value-creating work is mastering "process," or how bits of work that form a product or service come together. Says he: "I think this is the work of the angels. In a world where...
...cooperative effort between Cambridge and New England Development, a Newton-based design company, the mall's designers hoped to transform the depressed factory district into a thriving new industrial and commercial park...
...father is now a systems manager at a drugstore in Newton and his mother is a customer service representative for Blue Cross/Blue Shield. But their only child has turned into a political theorist extraordinaire...
...astronomer from Harvard, then a tiny school in the wilderness of the New World, sent his observations of what would later be called Halley's comet to Isaac Newton. Newton used this data from Harvard in his Principia, beginning a long tradition of astronomical excellence at the New England school, including the attendance of Edwin Hubble, the most famous astronomer of the 20th century...
McDonald said, however, that information about the case had been turned over to Harvard by Newton detectives who reported that "West believes the incident may be work-related...