Word: old-boy
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...Harvard Monro’s colleagues admired his determination to extend opportunities to all students. As director of financial aid, Monro helped develop new methods of recruiting students and awarding aid—trying to dismantle the “old-boy network” that had long fed privileged students into the nation’s prestigious colleges...
...sensitive and complex investigations we do, whether you're dealing with counterintelligence or corruption or counterterrorism, you need real-world experience," says a respected veteran. But Mueller wants a fresh approach at the top and has ignored the committees that traditionally recommend promotions--and, critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion for detail matches his own. His moves are backed by his boss, John Ashcroft. "The Attorney General...
...wasn't like this in good old Germany Inc., where a tangled old-boy network didn't let members fall by the wayside. Troubled operations were discreetly set right without any blood spilled in the executive suites. Today financial woes have cost as many as 50 CFOs their jobs and put a few behind bars...
...flipped. Once a symbol of Japan as global industrial powerhouse, the automaker was on the verge of bankruptcy, $22 billion in debt and had a moribund sales record. As with so many other Japanese companies, Nissan had become arrogant and oblivious to changes in the market, and the old-boy network that ran the Tokyo-based company simply didn't feel like answering a new call--and certainly not one from a foreign master...
...women farther up the executive ladder, Lufthansa has joined with seven other major corporations to offer a so-called cross-mentoring system in which high-ranking managers in one company offer advice to women managers in another firm. It's an effort to help them develop the kind of old-boy network that allows male managers to successfully climb the corporate ladder...