Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unisys Corporation, a current partner in the Strategic Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector program based at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has recently begun working with the Costa Rican electoral tribunal in implementing the country's new $4.7 million voter registration and personal identification system...
...offer them. Take the case of Russell, Karsh & Hagan, an 11-person public relations firm in Denver. Employees are allowed to donate public relations work to their favorite charities--on company time. Over the past year, the firm has donated pro bono p.r. expertise to eight charities, says managing partner Charles Russell. In 10 years of business, only one person has left for another company, he says. "The company cares about what is important to me personally," says accounts supervisor Meghan Dougherty, 32, a six-year employee. Dougherty has donated more than 100 hours annually to help promote Big Brothers...
...sharing and part-time employment) or on-site day-care programs, parenting classes, referrals to elder care for aging parents, and tuition money for college-bound kids. The alternative, they know, is that they may lose "the best and most creative employees in their fields," says Peter Elinsky, partner in charge of compensation and benefits at KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington...
...necessarily. Other communities have showered tax breaks on GM and its partners, assuming they would create or at least retain jobs. They were wrong. Volvo-GM closed a jointly owned plant (GM was the minority partner) in Orrville, Ohio, in 1996--just seven years after the county cut property and inventory taxes in half. Some 400 jobs were lost. The two automakers moved operations to Pulaski County, Va., where millions of dollars more in economic incentives awaited...
...linchpin to all the subplots is Roger White II, 42, an impeccably dressed light-skinned black partner in the venerable Atlanta law firm of Wringer Fleasom & Tick. The nickname he picked up at Morehouse College, Roger Too White, reflected his disdain for all the campus talk about black separatism. But his old Morehouse friend and fraternity brother Wesley Dobbs Jordan is now the mayor of Atlanta. That connection explains why Roger is asked to represent Georgia Tech's All-American running back, Fareek ("the Cannon") Fannon...