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Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native's eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay's 16,000 workers worldwide--a way to boost efficiency in a tougher economic climate...
...believe or do something, and once the weight of the previous acts reaches a certain level, the people disregard their own private information.” Within groups, Sunstein highlighted a set of behaviors people engage in that cause “the convergence of views and the penchant for extremism.” He cited a study that he conducted in Colorado Springs in which participants were asked, first individually, then in groups, their positions on climate change. In the results, he identified factors that lead to the rejection of individual beliefs, including individual concern for appearance, which often...
Pitchfork has been publishing "best-of" lists for years (their annual singles and album wrap-ups are especially popular) so it seems natural that they'd turn their penchant for classifying and cataloging music into a book. The Pitchfork 500 uses 42 critics to cover 30 years of music, from 1977 punk to 2006 crunk, and all the starry-eyed, acoustic acts in between...
Most of all, in your encounters with Yalies, don’t let them get away with giving the business to Our Queen Drew Faust. If they say one word about her green initiatives, penchant for Civil War inventresses, or cutting-edge hair style, you must immediately challenge them to a fisticuffs. Be prepared. These Yalies always like to fence their way out of conflicts and will probably wield...
...friend of Summers, said that Summers’ management style was not conducive to a University setting, where there are “lots of big egos” to be massaged.Nurturing was “not Larry’s strength,” Zeckhauser said, and his penchant for blunt criticism did him no favors with the cadre of faculty members who had opposed his presidency from the start.But Summers was able to weather his time in the Clinton administration without instigating conflicts, Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel said. The fact that Summers had trouble leading...