Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...washroom in the Science Center, the Barker Center reading room during flu season, the many generations of dust bunnies lurking in the corners of their own rooms. To the naked and uninformed eye, Harvard may be as sterile as Banana Republic. But how does it hold up to a plate of glossy agar...
...desk and takes control of the meeting. Wang exhibits the same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells me, not to "outshine the client" by "being a superstar"--again, remaining apolitical is the consultant's key to helping client staff change things...
...Harvard wants to be a social partner and not just an institutional presence, it should step up to the plate and send a message that they are as concerned as we are," he said...
...What Harvard University has done today is step up to the plate to help us and give us the tools to provide affordability," he added...
When Harvard made the decision to outsource security, it took a risk. An outside organization would handle hiring and firing guards, providing their pay and benefits schedules and generally remove responsibility for the quality of individual guards from Harvard's plate. In exchange, Harvard would face mostly unfamiliar guards who do not know campus or the students and employees who may change often. Harvard must acknowledge the risks in this experiment; as these early reports have shown, the gamble may not be going so well...