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...administration in 1979. From 1978 to 1981, he also served as a head of production and operations management for HBS. In the last decade of his career, Thurston joined the Executive Education Program and served as course head for the Owner/President Management Program, according to Williams. “Phil and the group of down-to-earth ‘doers’ developed an almost immediate rapport and they appreciated him,” said Williams. “He could deliver messages from academia at Harvard in a way that would ring true with them as ground-level...
...will remove the incentive for illegal immigration by eliminating the job opportunities which draw illegal aliens here," he said. Making it a crime for a company to hire an illegal was seen as such a dramatic step at the time that many worried over the consequences. Phil Gramm, then a Republican Senator from Texas, said the legislation "holds out great peril, peril that employers dealing in good faith could be subject to criminal penalties and in fact go to jail for making a mistake in hiring an illegal alien...
...courts after their respective teams, Gonzaga and Duke, were eliminated from the NCAA tournament. And remember poor Mrs. Alito, sniffling through her husband?s confirmation Senate hearings. Of course, the daytime block of network programming has long been synonymous with emotional instability. There?s Oprah and Dr. Phil, of course - and Starting Over, the syndicated group therapy show whose saline output is of biblical proportions...
...mentor has had on him and countless other students. Ben-Shahar spoke highly of Stone’s “strengths-based” approach to psychology, which constituted the subject matter of his courses and informed the way he approached his students. “Phil sought to uncover those places where people felt most deeply active and alive,” he said. Former student and current “Positive Psychology” teaching fellow Patricia Hernandez ’04 echoed Ben-Shahar’s sentiments. Hernandez recalled how her first course with Stone...
...during a meeting or cuts off a colleague midsentence to answer his cell phone. "It's not just mumbo-jumbo, feel-good diversity training," says Gerald Lord, V.P. of finance and strategy for Campbell Soup's North American division. After sitting through one of Young's three-hour, Dr. Phil--style seminars last month, Lord is convinced that getting his fellow executives to pay attention to microgestures can help improve Campbell's bottom line...