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...bull-in-a-china shop reputation, his handling of Allston or the Core or the appointment of deans, his brusque or ‘corporate’ style—deserve serious and searching discussion. Under his leadership, Harvard is making long-term changes to its curriculum and physical plant. If those decisions are being made poorly, or without appropriate consultation, the Faculty needs to speak...
...Bhutan This Himalayan nation became the first to prohibit not only smoking in public, but also all sales of tobacco. In a kingdom with few smokers (owing in part to a local belief that traces the tobacco plant's origin to a she-devil), the black-market price of a pack of Marlboros has doubled, to $2.60, since the ban took effect in December...
...administrative officer. A chemical engineer, Brown spent much of his career in manufacturing, ultimately developing a lean production system in 1997 that was based on Toyota's acclaimed continuous-improvement approach. He dubbed it the Kodak Operating System. KOS forces managers to look at everything that happens in a plant in terms of waste--waste of time, waste of space and so on. They then analyze every step in a process--down to the hand movements of assembly-line workers--to look for a better way. Everything goes that does not "create value for the customer," says Brown...
DIED. HORACE HAGEDORN, 89, canny entrepreneur who turned the blue-crystal plant fertilizer Miracle-Gro, a staple of suburban backyards in postwar America, into the world's top-selling plant food; in Sands Point...
This precautionary measure helps the plant prevent a “false alarm,” an unnecessary closing due to a touch such as that of a falling leaf, rather than an insect, he explained...