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Representatives from the American Civil Rights Institute and the Center for Equal Opportunity, two conservative advocacy groups, sent a letter to Harvard’s general counsel last Thursday. They requested that the HBS Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)—a one-week academic seminar in mid-June to introduce 60 to 80 seniors to life at HBS—end what they referred to as its “racially-exclusive” admissions policy...
...single stone: unpaid vacations. Since BellSouth offered unpaid leave to its 80,000 remaining employees in July, almost half have grabbed it--saving the Atlanta-based telephone company $14 million in payroll costs. Some firms, though, have made unpaid vacations mandatory. Last year Dell demanded that workers take one-week vacations without pay. "That had a lot of people grumbling," says an employee...
...paper, Harvard’s 4-1 loss at UConn last season was among its worst of the season in the eyes of the NCAA tournament selection committee, because the Huskies ended up with a losing record. The game was a sluggish affair, due largely to a one-week layoff caused by Sept. 11. Harvard outshot the Huskies, but a hot UConn goaltender tilted the game’s result the other...
...friends barely attended any of the lectures and embarked on an intense one-week, late-night study program where Ballmer would have characteristic mood-swings, vascillating regularly from screams of “we’re golden” to “no, we?...
...have been trying to rebuild an Ed Sullivan from spare parts. Television, having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather in the very first weeks, through promotion, before beginning their swift, inevitable drop. But no one has figured out how to create a blockbuster that generates a national conversation...